Notable Vegetarian Restaurants

Jingdu Caotang is a phoenix-from-the-ashes reinvention by the original core team behind Da Shu Wu Jie — its newest concept space, informally "Da Shu Wu Jie 3.0" — set on the sixth floor of a heritage building on Nanjing Road East. Inside, geometric origami-style planter walls and reclaimed wood furniture frame gladiolus, string-of-pearls, staghorn fern and bird's-nest fern, bringing the seasons into the middle of the city. Two rooftop gardens round out the space: a north terrace growing 20-plus herbs — Cuban oregano, rosemary, lavender, thyme, lemon mint, lemongrass, chamomile and more — that doubles as an organic herbal-tea picking-and-tasting space, and a south terrace shaded by blueberry, grape, hawthorn and yew trees that trace the seasons from blossom to fruit, with skyline views at dusk. Jingdu Caotang hopes to use taste that reaches the essence of flavor to awaken a purer palate — moving vegetarian cooking beyond restriction into a dialogue between food and nature.

A Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai, famed for refined Chinese tasting menus that follow the seasons.

A two-Michelin-star (and Green Star) vegetarian restaurant in Beijing, blending temple traditions with contemporary fine dining.

A Shanghai institution founded in 1922 and one of the icons of modern Chinese vegetarian cuisine.

A popular affordable vegan chain in Shanghai whose name puns on “eat vegetarian early.”

A fine-dining vegan/vegetarian restaurant in Hong Kong offering creative seasonal tasting menus.

A vegan restaurant in Hong Kong's Central serving Asian-inspired plant-based cuisine.

An all-vegetarian tea house in Hong Kong Park, known for vegetarian dim sum and tea.

The Macau outpost of the global vegan chain Loving Hut, serving affordable, varied plant-based dishes.

A popular vegetarian tea house in Taipei, famed for vegetarian xiaolongbao and a wide range of dim sum.

A well-known upscale vegetarian restaurant in Taipei, celebrated for refined, wellness-minded creative cuisine.

A popular Taiwanese vegan chain known for its build-your-own vegetable lu-wei and noodles.

A century-old vegetarian hall inside Xiamen's Nanputuo Temple, known for its poetically named Buddhist dishes and long regarded as a famous temple vegetarian banquet in southern Fujian.

A vegetarian restaurant run by Dafo (Great Buddha) Temple in Guangzhou's Beijing Road district, serving Cantonese-style Buddhist dishes and a vegetarian buffet.

A Hangzhou vegetarian institution founded in 1919; after years closed it was taken over by Jingci Temple and reopened in 2022 beside West Lake, specializing in meat-free noodles, pastries and banquets.

The vegetarian eatery at Suzhou's Xiyuan (Jiechuang Vinaya) Temple, popular for Suzhou-style vegetarian noodles with clear broth and generous toppings.

A creative vegetarian restaurant in Chengdu's Wuhou district themed around the 24 solar terms with seasonally changing Sichuan-inflected menus; a multi-year Michelin Bib Gourmand pick for Chengdu.

A popular plant-based restaurant in Shenzhen's MixC World in Nanshan — the brand's first South China outlet — serving over a hundred natural, handmade vegan dishes.

A natural-vegetarian restaurant near Baotong Temple in Wuchang, Wuhan, offering affordable buffet-style home cooking and mock-meat dishes.

A vegetarian restaurant set in Nan Lian Garden beside Chi Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill, Hong Kong, serving refined Chinese vegetarian dishes and dim sum in a Tang-style garden.

A Cantonese vegetarian restaurant in Macau's Fai Chi Kei that cooks without the five pungent spices, serving stone-pot rice, crispy lotus root and set lunches.

A Sichuan-style vegetarian restaurant in Taipei's Songshan district that cooks without onion or garlic; a Michelin Bib Gourmand vegetarian pick for several consecutive years.

A hotel-grade vegetarian brand from the Hai Lai group in Kaohsiung, led by hotel chefs and known for creative international vegetarian dishes and daily handmade dim sum.

The three-Michelin-star New York institution ran a fully plant-based menu from 2021 to 2025 and still offers a vegan tasting menu.

A celebrated upscale vegan restaurant in Los Angeles known for Mediterranean-inspired plant-based cuisine.

A legendary vegan fine-dining restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area and a pioneer of American plant-based cuisine for nearly three decades.

An acclaimed vegetable-focused restaurant in New York where the chef makes vegetables the star.

A stylish vegan restaurant brand from Canada serving refined, modern plant-based food.

Opened in 2011 by chefs Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby in a historic Center City townhouse, Vedge is an upscale vegan restaurant recommended by the Michelin Guide and a multiple James Beard Award nominee.

Founded in 1979 by the San Francisco Zen Center in a converted warehouse at Fort Mason, Greens is a landmark vegetarian restaurant widely credited with pioneering fine vegetarian dining in America, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Founded in 2015 in New York's East Village by former pastry chef Brooks Headley, Superiority Burger is an acclaimed vegetarian burger spot that moved to a larger space in 2023; Headley is a James Beard Award nominee.

A vegan Mexican restaurant on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, Gracias Madre prepares traditional Mexican dishes from organic, plant-based ingredients and features an agave-focused bar.

A vegetable-forward fine-dining restaurant on Vancouver's Main Street, The Acorn has been recommended by the Michelin Guide for several years and is known for local sourcing, low-waste cooking, and its signature beer-battered halloumi.

Established in 1997, Aux Vivres is one of Montreal's original vegan restaurants, located on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in the Plateau and known for grain bowls like its Dragon Bowl and hearty sandwiches.

Founded in 1983 in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on Halsted Street, the Chicago Diner is a long-running vegetarian and vegan restaurant famous for plant-based comfort food, vegan milkshakes, and its seitan-based Radical Reuben.

Serving Seattle since 1991, Cafe Flora is a vegetarian restaurant in the Madison Valley neighborhood offering globally inspired dishes made with Pacific Northwest ingredients and a popular weekend brunch.

Founded in 2000 in South Austin, Bouldin Creek Cafe is a vegetarian cafe serving scratch-made comfort food and coffee, known for brunch dishes like its El Tipico tofu scramble.

A vegan fine-dining restaurant near the White House in Washington, D.C., Elizabeth's (formerly Elizabeth's Gone Raw) serves a seven-course, largely raw tasting menu and is one of the city's best-known plant-based destinations.

A well-known plant-based restaurant in Buenos Aires and a flagship of the city's vegan scene.

An upscale vegan restaurant in Buenos Aires known for refined dishes and cocktails.

A plant-based fine-dining restaurant in São Paulo and a pioneer of Brazilian plant-based cuisine.

A popular vegan brand in Mexico City celebrated for Mexican-inspired plant-based food.

A long-standing vegetarian restaurant in Santiago, an icon of Chilean vegetarian dining since the 1980s.

A well-known vegan restaurant in Lima blending Peruvian flavors into plant-based dishes.

A vegetarian restaurant in Bogotá's historic La Candelaria, open since 2005, known for its daily set menu built around Andean grains such as quinoa and amaranth sourced from small Colombian producers.

An upscale, fully plant-based restaurant in Rio's Ipanema, led by chef Daniel Biron, offering a creative 100% vegan menu built on seasonal, local, organic vegetables alongside natural wines.

A vegetarian restaurant in Montevideo serving vegetarian and vegan dishes buffet-style, with several branches including one on Yi street in the Cordón area.

A well-known lacto-vegetarian and vegan restaurant in Quito, open since 1993, serving veggie burgers, pasta, salads and Ecuadorian-style dishes, with a fully vegan bakery and both set lunches and à la carte options.

A vegetarian fine-dining restaurant in Milan whose chef Pietro Leemann earned Europe's first Michelin star for a vegetarian restaurant in 1996.

A Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant tucked in a Berlin backstreet, known for hip, refined meat-free cuisine.

A fine-dining restaurant in London's Soho that chef Alexis Gauthier turned fully vegan, serving French haute cuisine.

A London restaurant that in 2025 became the first vegan restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star.

A small vegan bistro in Paris's Marais, open since 2003, reinterpreting French classics such as seitan bourguignon with organic ingredients in a room of only about twenty seats.

Vienna's fine-dining vegetarian restaurant, opened in 2011; the first vegetarian venue in Austria to earn both a Michelin star and a Green Star, led by chef Paul Ivić.

Founded in 1898 and recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest continuously running vegetarian restaurant, still family-run and famous for a buffet of over 100 dishes.

A vegan restaurant on the banks of the Main, set in Frankfurt's narrowest building; awarded a Michelin star in 2023, with much produce from its own permaculture farm.

A vegan fine-dining restaurant in central Copenhagen; the first vegan venue in the Nordics to earn a Michelin Green Star, serving a seasonal tasting menu with foraged ingredients.

Opened in 1979 near Piazza del Popolo as the first vegetarian restaurant in Rome and Italy, doubling as a contemporary art gallery and known for creative dishes and its weekend brunch buffet.

A fully vegan bistro in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, open since 2013, built on a Slow Food philosophy with a seasonal plant-based set menu and sulfite-free natural wines.

A plant-based fine-dining restaurant in Ixelles, Brussels; awarded a Michelin Green Star in 2021 and a Michelin star in 2023, the first plant-based venue in Belgium to be starred, with a menu tracking 24 micro-seasons.

A vegetarian restaurant on Dublin's Wicklow Street, open since 1986; a long-established, family-run wholefood institution known for its self-service hot dishes and salads.

A well-known vegan restaurant and confectionery in Budapest, serving plant-based versions of traditional Hungarian dishes with one of the city's widest à la carte vegan menus.

A vegan restaurant in Lisbon's Chiado district, reinterpreting Portuguese classics with plant-based takes such as a vegan francesinha and vegan 'sardines'.

A vegan restaurant in Amsterdam's Oud-West, opened in 2016 (originally vegetarian, now fully vegan), serving plant-based comfort food from around the world plus brunch.

A vegetarian restaurant behind the Týn Church in Prague's Old Town, open since 2009, offering vegetarian takes on traditional Czech dishes in a Feng Shui-inspired space.

A vegetarian restaurant near Marienplatz in Munich, offering fusion dishes spanning Asian, European and Mexican flavours; one of the city's longer-running veggie spots.

A vegan buffet restaurant on Stockholm's Södermalm with sweeping views over the city and water, using organic produce and over 60 spices, with its own bakery.

A 100% vegan sushi restaurant in central Warsaw, established in 2016, crafting sushi from seasonal vegetables served roll by roll with detailed descriptions.

A high-end vegan restaurant in Tokyo, often ranked among the world's best, celebrated for plant-based takes on classic dishes.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand vegetarian restaurant in Singapore serving Peranakan- and Thai-inspired meat-free dishes.

A famed temple-cuisine restaurant in Seoul's Insadong, founded by a former monk, showcasing Korean Buddhist vegetarian food.

Originating in Chennai, this South Indian vegetarian chain is one of the largest vegetarian restaurant brands in the world.

A popular plant-based restaurant in Bangkok known for healthy, stylish vegan dishes and smoothies.

A popular Tokyo vegan restaurant brand; its Ginza branch is known for fluffy vegan pancakes and the Fukurokuju bento, with an entirely plant-based menu.

Set within the UNESCO World Heritage Tenryu-ji temple in Arashiyama, it serves Zen shojin (Buddhist vegetarian) cuisine and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and Green Star in the 2025 guide.

Run by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and located opposite Jogyesa Temple, it presents Korean temple cuisine in a modern form and has held a Michelin star since 2017.

A Thai vegan restaurant that began as a street cart near Khao San Road in 1988, serving all plant-based Thai dishes such as pad Thai and massaman curry, and running daily cooking classes.

A fully plant-based restaurant founded in Ubud, Bali in 2011, known for its build-your-own salad bar and raw vegan desserts, and a long-standing name in Bali's vegan scene.

An Indian vegetarian restaurant founded in 1984 inside the Temple of Fine Arts in Brickfields, run on a not-for-profit, pay-as-you-wish basis and known for its South Indian vegetarian buffet.

A Bengaluru institution founded in 1924, credited with inventing rava idli, and famous for its masala dosa and South Indian meals.

A well-known Mumbai vegetarian restaurant serving inventive dishes rooted in Gujarati home cooking and street food, with banana-leaf-steamed panki as its signature.

A renowned Ho Chi Minh City vegetarian restaurant offering refined plant-based dishes built on Vietnamese ingredients; it has been ranked among the world's top vegetarian restaurants by TripAdvisor readers.

A popular vegetarian restaurant in Metro Manila (Quezon City) that reinterprets Filipino classics as plant-based dishes, with vegetarian kare-kare and meatless sisig among its signatures.

A pure-vegetarian restaurant established in 1998 in Wellawatte, Colombo, specializing in South and North Indian cuisine and celebrated for its paper masala dosa.

A well-known upscale vegan restaurant in Cape Town, founded in 2013 and praised for creative plant-based cooking.

A 100% vegan eatery in Cape Town's Sea Point, focused on raw, organic and cold-pressed fare.

A well-known South African–Indian plant-based café championing whole-food plant-based eating since 1991.

A vegetarian restaurant and health food store in the Emmarentia suburb of Johannesburg; its entire menu is vegetarian with many vegan options, and it is known for its daily buffet-style 'Table of Abundance'.

A vegetarian and vegan restaurant in the Marrakech Medina, widely described as the only vegetarian/vegan restaurant in the old town, with much of its produce grown on its own farm outside the city.

A well-known pure-vegetarian Indian restaurant in the Westlands area of Nairobi, inspired by the street food of Mumbai's Chowpatty Beach and among the oldest and most popular Indian vegetarian restaurants in Kenya.

A popular vegan restaurant in Melbourne known for bold, flavor-packed Latin-inspired plant-based dishes.

A plant-based fine-dining restaurant in Sydney offering a refined vegetable tasting menu from an acclaimed chef.

A vegan restaurant inside a Sydney hotel, with a menu designed by plant-based chef Matthew Kenney.

A stylish vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne's Fitzroy, serving vibrant, colorful vegetable-forward dishes.

Opened in 1972 on Faraday Street in Carlton, Shakahari is one of Melbourne's longest-running vegetarian restaurants, known for its Asian-inspired creative dishes such as the Satay Shakahari.

A vegan restaurant set in Sydney's Cook + Phillip Park, Bodhi was founded in 1988 and is one of Australia's oldest vegan yum cha venues, following Buddhist tradition by using no onion or garlic.

A Hare Krishna vegetarian restaurant in Brisbane's CBD, Govinda's has operated for nearly forty years and is known for its affordable vegetarian plates and Indian-influenced dishes.

Located on a jetty at Barrack Square on Perth's Swan River, Annalakshmi is an Indian vegetarian restaurant run by Temple of Fine Arts volunteers and long associated with a pay-as-you-feel philosophy.

A Malaysian vegetarian cafe on Wellington's Cuba Street, Aunty Mena's is popular for affordable laksa, dumplings and mock-meat dishes; it is cash only.