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This is a list of vegetarian and vegan restaurants.
Vegetarian cuisine Vegetarian cuisine is based on food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products (such as gelatin or animal-derived rennet). Lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of vegetarianism in the Western world) ...
refers to food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products. For lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of vegetarianism in the
Western world The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to the various nations and state (polity), states in the regions of Europe, North America, and Oceania.
), eggs and
dairy product Dairy products or milk products, also known as lacticinia, are food products made from (or containing) milk. The most common dairy animals are cow, water buffalo, nanny goat, and ewe. Dairy products include common grocery store food items in th ...
s such as milk and cheese are permitted. For lacto vegetarianism, the earliest known type of vegetarianism (recorded in India), dairy products are permitted but eggs are not. The strictest forms of vegetarianism are veganism, raw veganism, and
fruitarianism Fruitarianism () is a Diet (nutrition), diet related to veganism that consists primarily of consuming fruits and possibly nut (fruit), nuts and seeds, but without any animal products. Fruitarian diets are subject to criticism and health concerns. ...
, which exclude all
animal product An animal product is any material derived from the body of an animal. Examples are fat, flesh, blood, milk, eggs, and lesser known products, such as isinglass and rennet. Animal by-products, as defined by the USDA, are products harvested or man ...
s, including dairy products as well as eggs and even some refined sugars if filtered and whitened with bone char.


Notable vegetarian restaurants

* Adyar Ananda Bhavan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Kenya and United States * Annalakshmi, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and India * Aviv, Portland, Oregon, US * Bloodroot, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US * Café Gratitude, five locations, California, US * Café Paradiso, Cork, Ireland * Çiğköftem, Turkish fast food chain, 130 restaurants as of 2020 * Claire's Corner Copia, New Haven, Connecticut, US * Clover Food Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Copper Branch Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurant
Nashville, TN, US * Cranks, London, England *
Dirt Candy Dirt Candy is a vegetarian restaurant in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Chef and owner Amanda Cohen opened the restaurant in a small East Village space in 2008, and moved to its present location in 2015. It has ...
, New York City, New York, US * Food for Thought, London, England * Govinda's Restaurant, various locations all over the world * Goli Vada Pav, India * Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro, Portland, Maine, US, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US *
Greens Restaurant Greens Restaurant is a landmark vegetarian restaurant in the Fort Mason Center in the Marina District, San Francisco, California, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979, Greens has been credited in ...
, San Francisco, California, US * Hard Times Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US *
Hiltl Restaurant Hiltl Restaurant is a vegetarian restaurant in Switzerland. The restaurant holds the Guinness world record for being the oldest continuously open vegetarian restaurant in the world. The restaurant is in Sihlstrasse in Zurich. History In 189 ...
, Zurich, Switzerland * The Hollow Reed, Portland, Maine, US * InSpiral Lounge, Camden Lock, England * Kesar Da Dhaba, Amritsar *
Lentil as Anything Lentil As Anything Inc. (Lentil) was a group of pay as you feel, not for profit vegetarian and vegan Australian restaurants founded by Shanaka Fernando. Restaurants were located in Melbourne and Sydney and operated on a similar model to pay wh ...
, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia * Murugan Idli Shop, India and Singapore, a
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of vegetarian restaurants headquartered in Madurai * The New Riverside Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US * Namma Veedu Vasanta Bhavan, Chennai, Trichy and Villupuram, India *
New Woodlands Hotel The New Woodlands Hotel is an Udupi-style vegetarian restaurant in Chennai, India. Established in 1938 by Kadandale Krishna Rao, it is considered to be a pioneer in popularizing Udupi cuisine in the city. Since then, a large number of imitations ...
, Chennai * Penny Cafeteria, New York City, New York, US *
The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a hotel that operated from 1898 until the 1930s in the County Buildings (now Grade II* listed), Corporation Street, Birmingham, Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, as an expansion of the Pitman Vegetarian Res ...
, Birmingham, England *
Saravana Bhavan Hotel Saravana Bhavan is the largest South Indian restaurant chain in the world, founded in 1981 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. They operate 33 locations in India (24 in Chennai) and 78 across 22 countries in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zeal ...
, a Chennai based restaurant with 110 branches *
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, a vegan restaurant within a grassroots music venue (complete with vinyl record shop) in Sutton, south London. *
Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar is a vegetarian restaurant chain based out of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. The Annapoorna chain was started in the early 1960s by K. Dhamodarasamy Naidu as a catering unit in Kennedy movie theater in R. S. ...
, Coimbatore, India * Taïm, New York City, New York, US * Veggie Galaxy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US *
Veggie Victory Veggie Victory is the first vegetarian restaurant in Nigeria. History Veggie Victory was established by Hakeem Jimo in 2013. It was first located at Freedom Park, Lagos Island, and is now at Dolphin Estate in Ikoyi, Lagos. VeggieVictory serves s ...
, Nigeria *
Vidyarthi Bhavan Vidyarthi Bhavan ( kn, script=latn, Vidyārthi Bhavana; ) is a vegetarian tiffin restaurant in Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi, South Bangalore. It has been considered an iconic establishment of the area and Bangalore in general, with its masala dos ...
, South Bengaluru Bangalore, India


Notable vegan restaurants

* Baby Blue Pizza, Portland, Oregon *
Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli, or simply Ben & Esther's, is a vegan Jewish deli with multiple locations in the United States. History Founder and owner Justin King opened the original restaurant on Sandy Boulevard in northeast Portland's Ros ...
* Blossoming Lotus, Portland, Oregon, US * Candle Cafe, three locations, New York City, New York, US
Copper Branch Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurant
Nashville, TN, US * Crossroads Kitchen, Los Angeles, California, US * Cinnaholic, 14 locations, US * Dirty Lettuce, Portland, Oregon *
Elizabeth's Gone Raw Elizabeth's Gone Raw is a vegan fine-dining restaurant in Washington, D.C. The restaurant has been named as one of the best vegan restaurants in the world. The restaurant opened as an "occasional restaurant" in July 2010 on the second floor of a ...
, Washington, D.C., US * G-Zen, Branford, Connecticut, US * Life on Mars, Seattle *
Little Pine (restaurant) Little Pine was a fine-dining Veganism, vegan bistro located in the Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was founded by electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby. In July 2020, local plant-base ...
, Los Angeles, California, US * Lord of the Fries 19 locations in Australia and 4 in New Zealand. * Loving Hut, 138 locations, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America * Mama Đút, Portland, Oregon * Mis Tacones, Portland, Oregon *
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse The Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse was a political bookstore and vegan cafe located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone at 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The name comes from the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and other organi ...
, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (closed January 2014) * Native Foods Cafe, 14 locations, California, Colorado, Illinois, and Oregon, US * ONA, the first vegan restaurant in France to win a Michelin star *
Pink Peacock Pink Peacock (Yiddish: , ) is a café and infoshop in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. Described by its founders as "the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can café in the world" and "anti-Zionist", it opened physically in 2021 aft ...
, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland *
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, Asheville, North Carolina, US *
Plum Bistro Plum Bistro is a Black-owned businesses, Black-owned restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. The business is Makini Howell's flagship restaurant. Reception BuzzFeed named Plum Bistro one of 24 "Kick the bucke ...
, Seattle * Purezza, British pizza and Italian food chain from
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, UK * Red and Black Cafe, Portland, Oregon, US (closed March 2015) * Two Dollar Radio Headquarters, Columbus, Ohio, US *
Vedge Vedge is a fine-dining vegan restaurant located in the Midtown Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. In 2018, '' Food & Wine'' named them one of the 40 most important restaurants of the previous 40 years. History Vedge was ope ...
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US * VeganBurg, Singapore and San Francisco, California, US *
Veggie Grill Veggie Grill is a fast-casual vegan restaurant chain that operates in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York. The first restaurant opened in 2006 in Irvine, California and is operating 29 restaurants as of February ...
, 29 locations, California, Oregon, and Washington, US


See also

* Health food restaurant *
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