New York · Vegan
Vegan restaurants in New York
Written by Gillian McKeith
New York does vegan with confidence, which is a blessing and a curse. The confidence gets you beautiful vegetable cooking. It also gets you enormous portions of refined flour and sugar wearing a plant-based label, and I will not pretend that counts as eating well.
These are the New York kitchens where the produce is doing the work. I pay for my own meals and nobody pays me for a place on this page.
16 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.
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.
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About the author
Written by Gillian McKeith
I'm Gillian McKeith: television presenter, creator of the global hit show You Are What You Eat, writer, nutritionist, and the editor behind this guide. Every New York entry here is chosen and written by me. I judge kitchens on the things that actually matter: real ingredients, honest sourcing, vegetables cooked with care, and food you feel better for eating.
Nothing on this page is a paid placement. Restaurants cannot buy a recommendation, and any listing marked as sponsored is labelled as such. If a kitchen slips, it comes out of the guide.