Facing Heaven

Vegan Sichuan Restaurant in Hackney

Address: 1a Bayford Street, London E8 3SE
Phone: +44 20 8013 6606
Hours: Tue–Thu: 5:30pm–10:00pm; Fri–Sat: 5:30pm–11:00pm

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Menu prices: £4–£15 · £ · Median main: £12 · 14/14 with a published price

Facing Heaven is a neon-lit vegan Sichuan hotspot in Hackney, the reincarnation of cult favourite Mao Chow by LA-native Julian Denis. The 28-seat restaurant serves fiery plant-based takes on regional Chinese dishes — dan dan noodles, mapo tofu, Chongqing cauliflower — alongside natural wines and baijiu cocktails. 100% vegan.

Greatest Hits

• Smacked Cucumber — £8.80

  Salted cucumber, sesame oil, crushed garlic and chilli oil
• Chicken-Fried Shrooms — £12.00

  Confit oyster mushrooms battered and fried, served with furu ranch
• Sesame Toast with Curry Sauce — £12.00

  Deep-fried thick-cut bread with fish paste and sesame seeds, curry sauce
• Scallion Pancake — £12.00

  Pan-fried spring onion pancake with Xinjiang-style BBQ oyster mushrooms, cumin, Sichuan pepper
• Chongqing Cauliflower — £12.80

  Crispy cauliflower with fried peanuts and dried chillies, triple-chilli heat
• Yuxiang Aubergine — £12.80

  Crispy aubergine in sweet and sour sauce with pickled chilli and ginger
• Mapo Tofu — £15.00

  Sichuan classic: silken tofu in numbing spicy sauce
• Dan Dan Noodles — £15.00

  Chewy wheat noodles in spicy sesame sauce with mince, cucumber, peanuts, coriander
• Jasmine Rice — £4.00

  Steamed jasmine rice
• HK French Toast — £12.00

  Hong Kong-style French toast stuffed with peanut butter, coconut condensed milk, vegan Horlicks

Drinks

• Coke — £4.50

  Glass bottle
• Diet Coke — £4.50

  Glass bottle
• Pabst Blue Ribbon — £7.00

  American lager
• Corona — £6.50

  Light, crisp and refreshing