McPlant Burger: We tried McDonald’s new vegan offering - here’s our verdict

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After a successful trial at its Coventry outpost, the vegan burger - which took three years to research and develop - is now available in 250 McDonald’s restaurants across the UK. “The McPlant burger is long overdue - almost every fast food chain has released their own vegan options so I was intrigued to see what they had come up with,” Harriet Hall, The Independent’s Lifestyle Editor says. Having not eaten a meat McDonald’s for over 20 years, I am thrilled to be able to join the hungover burger club instead of having to settle for a lone pot of fries as a vegetarian.” To find out what others are saying and join the conversation to give your verdict scroll down for the comments section or Our Travel Editor, Helen Coffey, who has been a pescatarian for five years thought the plant-based burger did a “stand-up job” of replicating a classic McDonald’s burger. Ng adds that while the vegan cheese is “an impressive feat” it doesn’t seem to have the same molten texture you would expect from a regular McDonald’s burger which “takes away” from the experience.