New York · United States
Healthy restaurants in New York.
Written by Gillian McKeith
New York sets the pace for plant cooking around the world, and it also produces more health-branded noise than any city on earth. Think of this page as my filter, built from years of eating there and being told a great many things that were not true.
Manhattan, Brooklyn and further out: fine-dining vegan rooms, grain and juice counters that genuinely source well, and neighbourhood kitchens where the vegetables are the whole point of the meal.
I chose every one on ingredients and cooking alone. Not a single restaurant paid to be here.
17 restaurants in New York
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abcV
$$$New York, United States
Jean-Georges's sun-bathed Flatiron room, vegetable-forward, vegetarian, with a full vegan menu on request.
Avant Garden
$$$New York, United States
Small, candlelit East Village room doing vegetable cooking with fine-dining precision.
Beyond Sushi
$$New York, United States
Vegetable-only sushi built on black rice, and far better than the concept suggests.
Blossom
$$$New York, United States
Long-running Chelsea fully vegan dining room, global comfort cooking and an extensive organic wine list.
Cadence
$$New York, United States
Black American soul cooking, entirely plant-based, from the Overthrow kitchen family.
Champs Diner.
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Champs Diner
$New York, United States
A full vegan diner in Bushwick, pancakes, melts, milkshakes, all of it.
Coletta
$$New York, United States
Vegan kosher Italian, pizza, pasta and cheeses made in house.
Dirt Candy
$$$New York, United States
Amanda Cohen's Lower East Side vegetable-only restaurant, playful, technique-driven, no fake meat.
Eleven Madison Park
$$$$New York, United States
Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-starred Madison Square dining room, rebuilt as a fully plant-based tasting menu in 2021.
Franchia
$$New York, United States
Hangawi's more relaxed sibling: vegan Korean plates and a serious tea list.
Hangawi
$$$New York, United States
Shoes-off Korean temple cuisine in a hushed room off Fifth Avenue.
Le Botaniste
$$New York, United States
Organic plant-based bowls served in a room styled as an old Belgian apothecary.
peacefood
$$New York, United States
All-day vegan cafe near Washington Square, best known for its baking.
PLANTA Queen
$$$New York, United States
Loud, handsome pan-Asian room where everything on the menu is plant-based.
Ras Plant Based
$$New York, United States
Ethiopian cooking in Crown Heights, naturally plant-based and beautifully spiced.
Superiority Burger
$New York, United States
Brooks Headley's East Village counter, a James Beard-winning vegetarian burger joint that converts skeptics.
Urban Vegan Kitchen
$$New York, United States
West Village comfort food, all vegan, all unapologetically indulgent.