A beautifully crafted plant-based gourmet cookbook featuring 68 fine-dining, restaurant-tested recipes from a Top 100 South African restaurant kitchen and chef

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"The Restaurant May Be Closed... But the Revolution is Just Getting Started."
Vanessa Jarvis-Findlay - Founder & Celebrity Vegan Chef, NEKED Food

Welcome to NEKED Food — the multi-award-winning five-star plant-based experience that is now living its best life beyond the restaurant walls. From cookbooks and a celebrity cooking show to kitchen mischief soon landing on YouTube, the NEKED Food flame still burns strong. Join founder and culinary alchemist, domestic goddess, and celebrity vegan chef Vanessa Jarvis-Findlay on a journey of plants, passion, and plant-based perfection.

NEKED FOOD is Multi-Award Winning

Top 100 SA Restaurants 2023 & 2024

Proudly recognised by RASA as one of South Africa’s Top 100 Restaurants

for both years of our trading.

LUX LIFE Global Vegan Awards 2024

Most Innovative Vegan Restaurant 2024 – South Africa

Hidden Gem of the Year 2024

Excellence never goes out of style

Meet

VANESSA JARVIS-FINDLAY

CO-FOUNDER, CO-OWNER CELEBRITY VEGAN CHEF,
AUTHOR, PUBLISHER,
SAMA AWARD WINNING EXECUTIVE MUSIC PRODUCER

Vanessa Jarvis-Findlay is the co-founder and co-owner of NEKED Food, a multi-award winning celebrity vegan chef, author, publisher, SAMA-winning executive music producer, cooking show host, entrepreneur, artist, cannabis activist, cancer survivor, wife, dog mom, and culinary innovator & rebel.

Vanessa Jarvis-Findlay turned her spiritual awakening and love for animals into a five-star vegan movement. Her multi-award-winning Clarens restaurant, NEKED Food, was named one of South Africa’s Top 100 Restaurants by the Restaurant Association of South Africa (RASA) for both years of its trading, not in a vegan category, mind you, but against over 35,000 establishments. Now retired from service, NEKED Food is transforming into a creative brand that will soon launch: