After working for a major travel publisher in the eighties, Alex Bourke set up Vegetarian Guides to map the world for vegetarians and vegans. His aim was to make it easy for vegetarians and vegans to eat anywhere in the world. Since 1991 he's travelled widely on five continents, working with veggie and vegan groups in each country to create an unrivalled research network.

Vegetarian Guides publications include London, Paris, Europe, France and Vegetarian Britain. We have now started producing regional UK guides which so far include East of England, North of England, Scotland and soon Wales, and South of England. Vegetarian Guides also buys in great veggie travel guides from other publishers to sell mail order. Current titles include New York, Italy, Spain, Israel and North America. We also sell a few vegan cookbooks by our own writers.

Alex Bourke went vegetarian at fourteen and didn't meet another for five years. Having been the software guy at a guidebook company in the eighties, he spent two years doing time in France, and a year as Campaigns Coordinator at Viva! All these experiences came together in the production of Vegetarian Britain, Vegetarian France, Vegetarian Europe and seven editions of Vegetarian London.
Alex to speak at World Vegetarian Congress 2004
A Vegan Activist Life story from the book Vegan Stories

Since 2010 Alex writes the monthly Places To Go vegetarian restaurants page for Vegetarian Living magazine, and has contributed vegetarian travel features to newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Guardian, The Vegetarian, BBC Vegetarian Good Food, VegNews (USA), The Big Issue, New Vegetarian and Natural Health (Australia), Vegetarian World (Poland), helped countless journalists and researchers, and appeared on radio and tv many times in several countries.

Alex and co-author Ronny Worsey, who is also a top vegan chef, work with several vegan co-authors around the UK, around 100 local and national vegan activists and group leaders throughout Britain and Europe, and hundreds of readers worldwide who contribute updates and new entries.

Alex speaks several languages and has travelled vegan on five continents. He and the Vegetarian Guides team can answer all your travel questions or put you in touch with a local vegan expert.

Paris resident, journalist and longtime vegan Aurelia d'Andrea is the newest member of the Veggie Guides Team and author of the new Vegetarian Paris