Sally Cooper, the bistro owner who wrote the Facebook post, said that she made the decision to stop catering to vegans after staff started to get abused.
Before the pandemic, the cafe served vegan cream teas and vegan bacon, she said. But customers started to complain that vegan products were being stored in the same chiller cabinets as meat.
She said: “I would say ‘Hang on a second, they’d look down their noses at us’. We’d tell them what vegan options we could offer them and they’d said it was disgusting.”
Ms Cooper, 60, said her growing irritation with the “militant minority” led to her decision not to provide a vegan option on the bistro menu.
“It’s a small kitchen,” she said. “We produce tasty, home-cooked food. We don’t want to cook plant burgers, pulses and beans. It’s not our food.”
She said that since her post she had received a call to the shop from a man who had called her a ‘disgusting, dreadful woman.”
However, the overwhelming reaction had been supportive, she said.
The London House Bistro’s evening menu, served from 6pm on Fridays and Saturdays, was due to launch on Friday.
The restaurant has won awards in the past for its artisan breads, and is also famed for its homemade giant sausage rolls.