Our Story
Braidy and her mother Lee-Ann are the owners of Vegan Streetfood, based in Observatory, Cape Town. They are both incredibly passionate vegans set on making a difference in their local community.
Lee started the business in 2016 at the local markets in and around Cape Town, gaining knowledge of local and international cuisines, future trends and brilliantly blazing a path in the vegan community as well as the non-vegan hospitality sector. At this time, Braidy was studying to become a chef and was working on the Superyachts in the Mediterranean. After spending almost a decade honing her skills and love for food, she moved home and joined the family business.
Vegan innovation is our craft, our ritual
& our passion.
Between the both of them, Braidy and Lee have visited well over 50+ different countries and have brought their experiences home to South Africa with the mission to create vegan versions of traditional recipes they have seen as well as recreating some of their favourite vegan dishes that they have experienced around the world.
A family business.
Vegan Streetfood is run as a small, bespoke, family owned business — but with huge, grand, monstrous ambitions. Our team consists of three dedicated women plus one incredible man working hard across multiple aspects of the business. From procurement and production, to shipping, customer service, and communication, marketing, advertising, to so much more. All tasks are covered by our in-house team of 4.
our mission
A South African Vegan Revolution
As vegans themselves, Lee and Braidy are passionate about the growth of the vegan movement in South Africa. They are continuously striving to innovate new and exciting products for the community as well as working on wild new ideas for events, excursions, festivals, tours and more to do anything they can to help expand awareness of the vegan philosophy — Far and wide!