The Imperial - Hastings

Brilliant place that makes at least two delicious vegan pizzas at any time (including a melting vegan cheese-life? Really great pizza base and toppings. Some of the best vegan pizza we had. Their own beer was vegan (or at least those I tried, and they always know which beers are vegan (usually several). Beautiful pub and very friendly people who do not make you be strange for vegan! Update: In our opinion, this has gone down in the last few months since the pizza cook has gone. So we have reduced from 4 to 3 stars. Pizza is still beautiful and they still do vegan options, but much less consistent for example when one of the pizzas came very burned and it is strange that they calculate a pound for vegan cheese if any vegan option means leaving 2 4 other things. More update July 2018 Original Pizza Cook is back! and the pizza is back to their previous fantastic quality. You calculate even more for vegan cheese, and the menu has no obvious vegan options, so you need to have a chat with them, but we have it much less now that its delicious refreshed from previous review on 2017 08 07

The Imperial's pizzas are great. They're a good size and use really tasty toppings. The staff are friendly and the service is always friendly and the pizzas arrive quickly. They serve a good selection of beers (not sure if they're vegan) and have a large choice of soft drinks (some of which are vegan). The only minor complaint I have is they only offer a vegetarian pizza as standard, and charge an extra £1 for the vegan cheese, even though you're not having cow's cheese.

A cosy pub with warm friendly atmosphere. Pizza has an amazing wood fired crust. Beers are excellent

Honestly some of the best vegan pizza I’ve had and a great selection of craft beer too (all the in house “Brewing Brothers” ones are vegan). Always a great, busy atmosphere and I’ve never waited more than 15 minutes for food!

Popped in tonight for pizza as we heard they did vegan cheese. We were really impressed. Great choices, didn't mind us swapping bits and pieces to make our own pizzas and reasonably priced. We will definitely be visiting again, I think you would struggle to find better vegan pizza in Hastings.