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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 Lacto-ovo vegetarianism or ovo-lacto vegetarianism is a type of vegetarianism which forbids animal flesh but allows the consumption of animal products such as dairy and eggs. Unlike pescetarianism, it does not include fish or other seafood. A ty ...
(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 Humans and human ancestors have scavenged and eaten animal eggs for millions of years. Humans in Southeast Asia had domesticated chickens and harvested their eggs for food by 1,500 BCE. The most widely consumed eggs are those of fowl, especial ...
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 A lacto-vegetarian (sometimes referred to as a lactarian; from the Latin root lact-, ''milk'') diet is a diet that abstains from the consumption of meat as well as Egg as food, eggs, while still consuming dairy products such as milk, cheese, yog ...
, the earliest known type of vegetarianism (recorded in India), dairy products are permitted but eggs are not. The strictest forms of vegetarianism are
veganism Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. ...
,
raw veganism Raw foodism, also known as rawism or a raw food diet, is the dietary practice of eating only or mostly food that is uncooked and unprocessed. Depending on the philosophy, or type of lifestyle and results desired, raw food diets may include ...
, 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 Bone char ( lat, carbo animalis) is a porous, black, granular material produced by charring animal bones. Its composition varies depending on how it is made; however, it consists mainly of tricalcium phosphate (or hydroxyapatite) 57–80%, calci ...
.


Notable vegetarian restaurants

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Adyar Ananda Bhavan Adyar Ananda Bhavan (also known as AAB) is a chain of vegetarian restaurants and confectioners founded in Rajapalayam and headquartered in Adyar, Chennai, India. It is the oldest such chain in Chennai and has 145+ outlets across India. Over t ...
, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Kenya and United States * Annalakshmi, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and India *
Aviv Aviv ( he, אביב) means "barley ripening", and by extension "spring season" in Hebrew. It is also used as a given name, surname, and place name, as in Tel Aviv. The first month of the year is called the month of Aviv in the Pentateuch. The mo ...
, Portland, Oregon, US *
Bloodroot ''Sanguinaria canadensis'', bloodroot, is a Perennial plant, perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America. It is the monotypic genus, only species in the genus ''Sanguinaria'', included in the poppy family Papaveraceae, ...
, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US *
Café Gratitude Cafe Gratitude is a small chain of restaurants serving organic, plant-based (vegan) food, founded by Terces and Matthew Engelhart. In addition to vegan food, honey is served with some options. There are three locations in the Los Angeles area, in Ve ...
, five locations, California, US *
Café Paradiso A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-caf ...
, Cork, Ireland *
Çiğköftem Çiğköftem is a Turkish fast food chain and franchise that mainly sells vegan çig köfte. The chain also sells products with cow's milk dairy and is overall certified with the vegetarian V-Label. In 2020, the brand encompassed around 130 res ...
, Turkish fast food chain, 130 restaurants as of 2020 *
Claire's Corner Copia Claire's Corner Copia is a kosher vegetarian restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. It is located at 1000 Chapel Street near the campus of Yale University and the New Haven Green. It is owned by chef Claire Criscuolo, and was formerly co-owned wit ...
, New Haven, Connecticut, US *
Clover Food Lab Clover Food Lab is a vegetarian fast food chain, founded in 2008 which operates food trucks and restaurants in Massachusetts, United States. The company serves a simple menu that changes daily and with the seasons based on what is available from ...
, 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 Goli Vada Pav is an Indian fast food restaurant chain originated from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 2004 as a vada pav restaurant by Venkatesh Iyer. It currently operates in over 100 cities with over 300 stores. History Gol ...
, India *
Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro The Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro is a vegetarian restaurant serving Thai cuisine in Portland, Maine that opened in 2007 in the city's Arts District. A second Green Elephant restaurant located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire opened in 2015. It h ...
, 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 Hard Times Cafe is a worker cooperative, collectively owned restaurant in the Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is known for its Punk ideologies, punk and hippie ideo ...
, 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 The Hollow Reed was a vegetarian restaurant in the Old Port district of Portland, Maine that opened on February 7, 1974, and closed in 1981, and is cited for its influence on the city's notable restaurant culture. History The restaurant was o ...
, Portland, Maine, US *
InSpiral Lounge The InSpiral Lounge was an Organic food, organic Veganism, vegan restaurant, eco-Coffeehouse, café and events venue in Camden Lock, Camden Town, Camden, London, England, overlooking the Regent's Canal and Camden Market until its closure in 20 ...
, Camden Lock, England *
Kesar Da Dhaba Kesar Da Dhaba is a vegetarian Punjabi dhaba in Amritsar, Punjab, India, that originated as a small restaurant selling dal and roti set up by Lala Kesar Mal, a Punjabi Hindu in Sheikhupura, near Lahore in 1916. It moved to Amritsar after the par ...
, 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 The New Riverside Cafe was a coffeehouse and vegetarian restaurant located near the University of Minnesota in the West-Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1970 to 1997. It became a center for political and social movements around ...
, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US *
Namma Veedu Vasanta Bhavan Namma Veedu Vasanta Bhavan ( ta, நம்ம வீடு வஸந்த பவன்) is a chain of vegetarian restaurants headquartered in Egmore, Chennai, India, started in 1969. History Vasanta Bhavan restaurant was started in Trichy b ...
, 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 Penny Cafeteria was a vegetarian restaurant located at 511 Third Avenue (Manhattan) between 34th Street and 35th Street. It opened during the Great Depression, in December 1931. The establishment was opened by the Bernarr MacFadden Foundation, begu ...
, New York City, New York, US * The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel, 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
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, 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. P ...
, 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, South Bengaluru Bangalore, India


Notable vegan restaurants

* Baby Blue Pizza, Portland, Oregon * Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli * Blossoming Lotus, Portland, Oregon, US *
Candle Cafe Candle Cafe, Candle West and Candle 79 were fine-dining vegan restaurants in Manhattan, in New York City. Candle Cafe opened in 1994 as a juice bar and health food cafe, and was owned by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza. The Potenzas used $53,000 t ...
, 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 Dirty Lettuce is a Black-owned vegan restaurant serving Southern, Cajun, and Creole cuisine in Portland, Oregon. Alkebulan Moroski began operating as a food cart in 2020 and opened a brick and mortar restaurant in 2021. Description Dirty Lettu ...
, Portland, Oregon * Elizabeth's Gone Raw, Washington, D.C., US * G-Zen, Branford, Connecticut, US *
Life on Mars The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no proof of past or present life has been found on Mars. Cumulative evidence suggests that during the ...
, Seattle * Little Pine (restaurant), 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 Ona or ONA may refer to: Anthropology * Ona people, an indigenous people of southern Argentina and Chile ** Ona language, a language once spoken in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego * Ona, a pre-Aksumite culture in Sembel, Eritrea Geography * On ...
, the first vegan restaurant in France to win a Michelin star * Pink Peacock, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland *
Plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
, 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
Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
, 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 VeganBurg is the world's first 100% plant-based burger joint in the fast casual scene, established on October 10, 2010. A vegan fast casual chain of restaurants, which currently has one outlet in Singapore and one outlet in San Francisco, United ...
, 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

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Health food restaurant A healthy diet is a Diet (nutrition), diet that maintains or improves overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential Human nutrition, nutrition: fluid, macronutrients such as protein, micronutrients such as vitamins, and adequat ...
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Lists of restaurants This is an index of restaurant-related lists. A restaurant is a business establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generall ...
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List of vegetarian and vegan companies This is a list of vegetarian and vegan companies that do not use animal products or animal-based products in their goods. Such companies include food manufacturers and cosmetics companies, among others. Vegetarian and vegan companies Gene ...
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List of fictional vegetarian characters This is a list of fictional characters that either self-identify as vegetarian or have been identified by outside parties to be vegetarian. Listed characters are either protagonists and recurring characters. Some scholars have argued that mass me ...


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