Plant-based & vegetarian

Vegan & vegetarian, done properly.

The restaurants on this page are fully vegan or fully vegetarian — no meat, no fish, no compromise. Every entry is hand-picked by our editors for cooking that earns its place on a serious dining list.

Looking for a strong plant menu inside an omnivore restaurant? Browse plant-forward and omnivore-with-plants instead.

1847
4.6
Modern vegetarian

1847

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Manchester, England

Manchester's long-running vegetarian and vegan restaurant — seasonal British cooking with a strong wine list.

abcV
4.6
Plant-based seasonal

abcV

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New York, United States

Jean-Georges's sun-bathed Flatiron room — vegetable-forward, vegetarian, with a full vegan menu on request.

Althea
4.6
Vegan global

Althea

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Chicago, United States

River North fully vegan dining — chef-driven plant cuisine that earned Bib Gourmand recognition.

Anastasia
4.6
Vegan café

Anastasia

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Tel Aviv, Israel

A Tel Aviv all-day fully vegan café — colourful bowls, sabich, shakshuka, in a city that's become a vegan capital.

Ao 26 Vegan Food Project
4.6
Vegan global

Ao 26 Vegan Food Project

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Lisbon, Portugal

Chiado fully vegan kitchen — Portuguese classics reimagined without animal products.

ARK
4.6
Vegan tasting

ARK

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Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen's first Michelin-starred fully vegan restaurant — fermented, foraged, fiercely seasonal.

Avatara
4.6
Vegetarian Indian tasting

Avatara

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

One Michelin-starred vegetarian Indian tasting menu — 16 courses across regional Indian cuisines.

Blossom
4.6
Vegan global

Blossom

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New York, United States

Long-running Chelsea fully vegan dining room — global comfort cooking and an extensive organic wine list.

Broccoli Revolution
4.6
Plant-based Thai

Broccoli Revolution

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Bangkok, Thailand

Sukhumvit plant-based all-day kitchen — pad thai, green curry, smoothie bowls, no animal products.

Chloé
4.6
Vegan Mexican

Chloé

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Mexico City, Mexico

Roma Norte fully vegan dining — plant takes on tlayudas, tacos al pastor and chiles en nogada.

Community Kitchen
4.6
Vegan Turkish

Community Kitchen

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Istanbul, Türkiye

Cihangir fully vegan kitchen — Turkish meze, mantı and pides reimagined plant-based.

Cornucopia
4.6
Vegetarian wholefood

Cornucopia

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Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Wicklow Street institution since 1986 — Ireland's best-known vegetarian wholefood restaurant.

Counter Culture
4.6
Vegan comfort

Counter Culture

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Austin, United States

East Austin all-vegan kitchen — mac, nachos, raw cheesecakes; an Austin staple since 2009.

Crossroads Kitchen
4.6
Mediterranean vegan

Crossroads Kitchen

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Los Angeles, United States

Tal Ronnen's Melrose dining room — fully vegan Mediterranean cooking that reads like a serious omnivore menu.

Culina Hortus
4.6
Vegetarian fine dining

Culina Hortus

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Lyon, France

Presqu'île vegetarian fine-dining — voted best vegetarian restaurant in the world by La Liste in 2020.

David Bann
4.6
Vegetarian bistro

David Bann

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Edinburgh, Scotland

A long-running Old Town vegetarian dining room where the cooking is inventive rather than worthy.

De Bolhoed
4.6
Vegetarian European

De Bolhoed

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Canal-side Jordaan vegetarian institution since the 80s — colourful, generous plates with strong vegan options.

Dirt Candy
4.6
Vegetable tasting

Dirt Candy

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New York, United States

Amanda Cohen's Lower East Side vegetable-only restaurant — playful, technique-driven, no fake meat.

Distrito Vegano
4.6
Vegan Spanish

Distrito Vegano

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Madrid, Spain

Lavapiés fully vegan kitchen — paella, tapas and Spanish comfort food, all plant-based.

Earth Café
4.6
Vegetarian Moroccan

Earth Café

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Marrakech, Morocco

Medina hideaway — fully vegetarian Moroccan tagines, salads and juices.

Eleven Madison Park
4.6
Plant-based fine dining

Eleven Madison Park

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New York, United States

Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-starred Madison Square dining room — rebuilt as a fully plant-based tasting menu in 2021.

Fancy Radish
4.6
Vegetable tasting

Fancy Radish

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Washington, United States

H Street NE fully vegetable-driven dining room from the Vedge team — small plates, full vegan.

Farm Spirit
4.6
Vegan tasting

Farm Spirit

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Portland, United States

Counter-seat fully vegan tasting menu — Cascadian ingredients foraged or farmed within 105 miles.

Farmacy
4.6
Plant-based wholefood

Farmacy

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London, England

Notting Hill all-day plant-based kitchen built around biodynamic, sugar-free, additive-free cooking.

Forest
4.6
Vegan bistro

Forest

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Auckland, New Zealand

Mt Eden fully vegan dining room — long set menus, native ingredients, natural wines.

FREA
4.6
Zero-waste vegan

FREA

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Berlin, Germany

Berlin's zero-waste, fully vegan restaurant — everything composted on-site, ingredients from a 200km radius.

Gauthier Soho
4.6
French vegan tasting

Gauthier Soho

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London, England

Alexis Gauthier turned his Michelin-starred townhouse fully vegan — French haute cuisine without a single animal product.

Govinda's
4.6
Vegetarian Indian buffet

Govinda's

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New Delhi, India

Iskcon Temple's pure-veg, satvik buffet — no onion or garlic, generous and immaculately clean.

Gracias Madre
4.6
Vegan Mexican

Gracias Madre

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West Hollywood, United States

Fully vegan, organic Mexican kitchen — mole, tamales, mezcal cocktails, big patio.

Green Common
4.6
Plant-based global

Green Common

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Shanghai, China

Plant-based grocery and kitchen from the OmniPork team — dim sum, noodles, burgers, all vegan.

Greens
4.6
California vegetarian

Greens

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San Francisco, United States

Fort Mason institution since 1979 — a Zen Center-rooted vegetarian restaurant with one of the city's great waterfront views.

Harmonium
4.6
Vegan comfort

Harmonium

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Edinburgh, Scotland

Leith craft-beer hall with a fully vegan kitchen — burgers, mac, wings, all plant-based.

Hermans
4.6
Vegetarian buffet

Hermans

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Stockholm, Sweden

Söder hilltop garden-restaurant — vegetarian buffet with a postcard view of Stockholm harbour.

Hiltl
4.6
Vegetarian buffet

Hiltl

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Zurich, Switzerland

The world's oldest vegetarian restaurant (since 1898) — a vast, by-weight buffet drawing 2,000 diners a day.

Humus x Hortense
4.6
Vegetable fine dining

Humus x Hortense

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Brussels, Belgium

Brussels' Michelin-Green-starred temple to vegetables, with biodynamic cocktails to match.

Itadakizen
4.6
Vegan Japanese

Itadakizen

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinjuku-area fully vegan Japanese kitchen — bento, donburi, ramen, all organic and plant-only.

Joia
4.6
Vegetarian haute cuisine

Joia

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Milan, Italy

Pietro Leemann's Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant — Europe's first, opened 1989, still pushing the form.

Kalifornia Kitchen
4.6
Vegan Californian

Kalifornia Kitchen

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Paris, France

A Parisian take on bright Californian plant-based cooking — bowls, pancakes, smoothies, no animal products.

Koocha Mezze Bar
4.6
Vegan Persian

Koocha Mezze Bar

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Bristol, England

Stokes Croft Persian small-plates bar — fully vegan mezze, cocktails and a famous fesenjan.

Kopps
4.6
Modern vegan

Kopps

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Berlin, Germany

Mitte's elegant fully vegan dining room — multi-course tasting menus and a serious natural wine list.

Krowarzywa
4.6
Vegan burgers

Krowarzywa

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Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw's pioneering all-vegan burger joint — beloved by locals, multiple locations across the city.

Le Potager du Marais
4.6
French vegetarian

Le Potager du Marais

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Paris, France

A tiny Marais bistro serving fully vegetarian and largely vegan French classics — pâté, cassoulet, tarte tatin.

Lehká Hlava (Clear Head)
4.6
Vegetarian global

Lehká Hlava (Clear Head)

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Prague, Czechia

Atmospheric vegetarian dining room tucked into Old Town — global menu, full vegan options.

LOV
4.6
Plant-based bistro

LOV

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Montreal, Canada

Old Montreal's breezy plant-based dining room — bowls, burgers, cocktails, all vegan.

Loving Hut Da Nang
4.6
Vegan Vietnamese

Loving Hut Da Nang

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Da Nang, Vietnam

A Vietnamese branch of the global vegan chain — pho, bun cha, banh mi, all plant-based and inexpensive.

MANA! Fast Slow Food
4.6
Vegetarian wholefood

MANA! Fast Slow Food

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Soho all-day vegetarian flats, salads and bowls — pioneer of plant-based eating in HK.

Mildreds
4.6
Global vegetarian

Mildreds

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London, England

Soho institution since 1988 — a globe-trotting vegetarian and vegan menu that helped define meat-free dining in London.

Millennium
4.6
Global vegan

Millennium

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Oakland, United States

Bay Area fully vegan fine-dining stalwart since 1994 — globally inflected, built around organic produce.

Moksa
4.6
Plant-based permaculture

Moksa

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Ubud, Indonesia

Permaculture garden restaurant in the Ubud rice fields — fully plant-based, raw and cooked tasting menus.

Mono
4.6
Vegan comfort

Mono

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Glasgow, Scotland

Merchant City record-shop-cum-vegan-kitchen — pizzas, burgers and craft beer, fully plant-based.

Peas
4.6
Vegan Mediterranean

Peas

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Athens, Greece

Koukaki fully vegan bistro — Greek classics like moussaka and gyro made entirely plant-based.

Plant
4.6
Plant-based wholefood

Plant

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Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town's flagship fully vegan café — bowls, burgers, raw desserts, organic and gluten-free options.

Plant Food + Wine
4.6
Raw and plant-based

Plant Food + Wine

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Venice (LA), United States

Matthew Kenney's Abbot Kinney flagship — raw and lightly cooked plant cuisine on a leafy patio.

Plant Miami
4.6
Plant-based wholefood

Plant Miami

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Miami, United States

Wynwood-area plant-based kitchen with a strong raw and gluten-free streak.

Planta
4.6
Plant-based global

Planta

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Toronto, Canada

Canadian plant-based mini-chain — sushi, pizza, burgers, all fully vegan, in design-led rooms.

Plates
4.6
Modern vegan tasting

Plates

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London, England

The first vegan restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star — Kirk Haworth's precise, plant-only tasting menus in Hoxton.

Purezza
4.6
Vegan Neapolitan pizza

Purezza

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Brighton, England

The UK's first vegan pizzeria — wood-fired Neapolitan pies with house-made plant mozzarella.

Rasoterra
4.6
Mediterranean vegetarian

Rasoterra

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Barcelona, Spain

Slow-food Gòtic bistro — fully vegetarian and largely vegan, organic wines, ingredient-led Mediterranean plates.

Romeow Cat Bistrot
4.6
Vegan bistro

Romeow Cat Bistrot

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Rome, Italy

Ostiense fully vegan bistrot with resident cats — refined Italian plant cooking and natural wines.

Saravana Bhavan
4.6
South Indian vegetarian

Saravana Bhavan

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Chennai, India

The world's most-travelled South Indian vegetarian chain — dosa, idli, thali, founded in Chennai 1981.

Seven Swans
4.6
Vegan tasting

Seven Swans

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Frankfurt, Germany

Michelin-starred fully vegan tasting menu in a narrow tower on the Main — botanical-led, hyper-local cooking.

Shigetsu
4.6
Shōjin ryōri

Shigetsu

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Kyoto, Japan

Set inside Tenryū-ji temple — Buddhist shōjin ryōri served on lacquered trays in a tatami room over the garden.

Smith & Daughters
4.6
Vegan Spanish-Latin

Smith & Daughters

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Melbourne, Australia

Fitzroy fully vegan kitchen with Spanish and Latin American leanings — paella, croquetas, churros, mezcal.

Soam
4.6
Vegetarian Gujarati

Soam

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Mumbai, India

Babulnath vegetarian Gujarati-Maharashtrian kitchen — thalis, chaat, regional snacks done with care.

Superiority Burger
4.6
Vegetarian counter

Superiority Burger

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New York, United States

Brooks Headley's East Village counter — a James Beard-winning vegetarian burger joint that converts skeptics.

Terre à Terre
4.6
Modern vegetarian

Terre à Terre

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Brighton, England

Brighton's legendary fine-dining vegetarian — playful, generous, deeply seasoned plates since 1993.

4.6
Vegan tasting

Teva Restó

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

Palermo fully vegan tasting menu — refined Argentine cooking without meat in a country defined by it.

The Gate
4.6
Global vegetarian

The Gate

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London, England

A pioneer of grown-up vegetarian dining in the UK since 1989 — flavour-led plates across Indian, Mediterranean and Asian influences.

Tian Bistro am Viktualienmarkt
4.6
Vegetarian fine dining

Tian Bistro am Viktualienmarkt

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Munich, Germany

Bistro arm of Vienna's Michelin-starred Tian — vegetarian seasonal cooking on Munich's historic market.

Transformer
4.6
Modern vegetarian

Transformer

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Melbourne, Australia

Fitzroy warehouse vegetarian restaurant — large vegan menu, share plates, natural wine.

Uu Dam Chay
4.6
Vegan Vietnamese

Uu Dam Chay

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Hanoi, Vietnam

Hoan Kiem elegant fully vegan Vietnamese dining — pho, bun cha and lotus dishes without meat or fish.

Vedge
4.6
Vegetable fine dining

Vedge

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Philadelphia, United States

Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby's Center City restaurant — vegetables treated with steakhouse seriousness.

Vega City
4.6
Hungarian vegan

Vega City

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Budapest, Hungary

Casual fully vegan kitchen serving plant versions of Hungarian classics — gulyás, paprikás, lángos.

Vegan Bistro Jangsu
4.6
Vegan Korean

Vegan Bistro Jangsu

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Seoul, South Korea

Itaewon fully vegan kitchen reimagining Korean comfort food — bibimbap, tteokbokki, kimbap, bossam.

Vincent Vegan
4.6
Vegan street food

Vincent Vegan

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Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg-born fully vegan street-food chain — burgers, hot dogs and fries, no animal products.

Virtuous Pie
4.6
Vegan pizza

Virtuous Pie

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Vancouver, Canada

Chinatown fully vegan pizza and ice-cream parlour — sourdough crusts, house cashew cheeses.

Whole Earth
4.6
Peranakan vegetarian

Whole Earth

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Singapore, Singapore

Michelin Bib-listed Thai-Peranakan vegetarian restaurant — assam, rendang and curries without meat or fish.

Yang Shin Vegetarian Restaurant
4.6
Chinese vegetarian

Yang Shin Vegetarian Restaurant

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Taipei, Taiwan

A Taipei institution serving refined fully vegetarian Chinese cuisine since 1991.

Yellow
4.6
Vegetable tasting

Yellow

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Sydney, Australia

Brent Savage's Potts Point fine-dining vegetable kitchen — a degustation built entirely from plants.