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Notable Restaurants (Non-China)

A hand-picked guide to celebrated vegetarian and vegan restaurants outside China — the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

Vegetarian Restaurant Map

US & Canada

Eleven Madison Park

Eleven Madison Park

Vegetarian
📍 New York· Fine Dining4.8

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

🍲 Plant-based tasting menu
Crossroads Kitchen

Crossroads Kitchen

Vegan
📍 Los Angeles· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Vegan “seafood” / Handmade pasta
Millennium

Millennium

Vegan
📍 San Francisco Bay Area· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Seasonal tasting menu
Dirt Candy

Dirt Candy

Vegetarian
📍 New York· Fine Dining4.5

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

🍲 Creative vegetable dishes
Planta

Planta

Vegan
📍 Toronto· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Vegan sushi / Plant burger
Vedge

Vedge

Vegan
📍 Philadelphia· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Rutabaga Fondue / Fancy Radishes
Greens Restaurant

Greens Restaurant

Vegetarian
📍 San Francisco· Fine Dining4.5

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.

🍲 Mesquite Grilled Brochettes / Potato Griddle Cakes
Superiority Burger

Superiority Burger

Vegetarian
📍 New York· Light Meals4.6

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.

🍲 Superiority Burger / Burnt Broccoli Salad
Gracias Madre

Gracias Madre

Vegan
📍 Los Angeles· Fine Dining4.5

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.

🍲 Butternut Squash Quesadillas / Fried Cauliflower
The Acorn

The Acorn

Vegetarian
📍 Vancouver· Fine Dining4.6

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.

🍲 Beer-Battered Halloumi
Aux Vivres

Aux Vivres

Vegan
📍 Montreal· Light Meals4.4

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.

🍲 Dragon Bowl / Coconut Bacon BLT
The Chicago Diner

The Chicago Diner

Vegetarian
📍 Chicago· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Radical Reuben / Vegan Milkshake
Cafe Flora

Cafe Flora

Vegetarian
📍 Seattle· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Portobello Wellington / Oaxaca Tacos
Bouldin Creek Cafe

Bouldin Creek Cafe

Vegetarian
📍 Austin· Light Meals4.6

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.

🍲 El Tipico Tofu Scramble / Veggie Royale Burger
Elizabeth's Gone Raw

Elizabeth's Gone Raw

Vegan
📍 Washington, D.C.· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Seven-Course Tasting Menu / Plant-Based Desserts

Latin America

Buenos Aires Verde

Buenos Aires Verde

Vegan
📍 Buenos Aires· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Plant-based bowls / Smoothies
Sacro

Sacro

Vegan
📍 Buenos Aires· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Creative vegan plates / Cocktails
Le Manjue

Le Manjue

Vegan
📍 São Paulo· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Plant-based tasting menu
Los Loosers

Los Loosers

Vegan
📍 Mexico City· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Mexican-style vegan dishes
El Huerto

El Huerto

Vegetarian
📍 Santiago· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Classic vegetarian dishes
Seitan Urban Bistro

Seitan Urban Bistro

Vegan
📍 Lima· Light Meals4.4

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

🍲 Vegan burgers / Peruvian-style vegan
Quinua y Amaranto

Quinua y Amaranto

Vegetarian
📍 Bogotá· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Menú del día (soup, main, dessert) / Quinoa & amaranth mains
Teva

Teva

Vegan
📍 Rio de Janeiro· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Raviolone with tofu ricotta & mushrooms / Tempeh Bordelaise
La Vegetariana

La Vegetariana

Vegetarian
📍 Montevideo· Buffet4.3

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

🍲 Vegetarian buffet / Daily hot dishes & salads
El Maple

El Maple

Vegetarian
📍 Quito· Light Meals4.6

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.

🍲 Veggie burger / Ecuadorian-style set lunch

Europe

Joia

Joia

Vegetarian
📍 Milan· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Creative vegetarian tasting
Cookies Cream

Cookies Cream

Vegetarian
📍 Berlin· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Parmesan dumpling / Seasonal menu
Gauthier Soho

Gauthier Soho

Vegan
📍 London· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Vegan “foie gras”
Plates

Plates

Vegan
📍 London· Fine Dining4.7

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

🍲 Plant-based tasting menu
Le Potager du Marais

Le Potager du Marais

Vegan
📍 Paris· Light Meals4.4

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.

🍲 Seitan bourguignon / Vegetable gratin
TIAN

TIAN

Vegetarian
📍 Vienna· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Vegetable tasting menu / Seasonal vegetable creations
Haus Hiltl

Haus Hiltl

Vegetarian
📍 Zurich· Buffet4.5

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.

🍲 Vegetarian buffet / Mushroom stroganoff
Seven Swans

Seven Swans

Vegan
📍 Frankfurt· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Vegan seasonal tasting menu / Farm-grown vegetables
Restaurant Ark

Restaurant Ark

Vegan
📍 Copenhagen· Fine Dining4.7

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.

🍲 Vegan tasting menu / House-cultivated mushrooms
Il Margutta

Il Margutta

Vegetarian
📍 Rome· Fine Dining4.4

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.

🍲 Creative vegetarian set menu / Weekend brunch buffet
Rasoterra

Rasoterra

Vegan
📍 Barcelona· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Seasonal slow-food set menu / Natural wines
Humus x Hortense

Humus x Hortense

Vegetarian
📍 Brussels· Fine Dining4.6

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.

🍲 24-microseason plant-based tasting menu / Botanical cocktails from vegetable trimmings
Cornucopia

Cornucopia

Vegetarian
📍 Dublin· Light Meals4.6

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.

🍲 Daily hot main / Mixed salad plate
Napfényes

Napfényes

Vegan
📍 Budapest· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Meat-free bean soup / Stuffed cabbage rolls
Ao 26 Vegan Food Project

Ao 26 Vegan Food Project

Vegan
📍 Lisbon· Light Meals4.6

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

🍲 Plant-based francesinha / Vegan 'sardines'
Meatless District

Meatless District

Vegan
📍 Amsterdam· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Oyster mushroom skewers / Jackfruit tacos
Maitrea

Maitrea

Vegetarian
📍 Prague· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Vegetarian Czech classics / Sampler platter
Prinz Myshkin

Prinz Myshkin

Vegetarian
📍 Munich· Light Meals4.4

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.

🍲 Vegetable involtini / Asian-inspired mains
Hermans

Hermans

Vegan
📍 Stockholm· Buffet4.5

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.

🍲 Vegan buffet / Homemade vegan desserts
Youmiko Vegan Sushi

Youmiko Vegan Sushi

Vegan
📍 Warsaw· Light Meals4.6

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

🍲 Seasonal vegetable sushi rolls / Chef's tasting sushi selection

Asia

Saido

Saido

Vegan
📍 Tokyo· Fine Dining4.7

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

🍲 Vegan “unagi” rice / Vegetarian sushi
Whole Earth

Whole Earth

Vegetarian
📍 Singapore· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Peranakan curry / Thai-style fried noodles
Sanchon

Sanchon

Vegetarian
📍 Seoul· Temple Hall4.5

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

🍲 Korean temple-cuisine set
Saravana Bhavan

Saravana Bhavan

Vegetarian
📍 Chennai· Light Meals4.4

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

🍲 Masala dosa / Idli
Broccoli Revolution

Broccoli Revolution

Vegan
📍 Bangkok· Light Meals4.5

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

🍲 Broccoli quinoa bowl / Vegan tom yum
Ain Soph. Ginza

Ain Soph. Ginza

Vegan
📍 Tokyo· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Heavenly Vegan Pancakes / Fukurokuju Bento
Shigetsu

Shigetsu

Vegan
📍 Kyoto· Temple Hall4.5

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.

🍲 Shojin ryori set course / Goma-dofu (sesame tofu)
Balwoo Gongyang

Balwoo Gongyang

Vegan
📍 Seoul· Temple Hall4.6

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.

🍲 Seasonal temple-cuisine course / Seasonal vegetables with temple-made pastes
May Kaidee

May Kaidee

Vegan
📍 Bangkok· Budget Noodle4.4

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.

🍲 Vegan Pad Thai / Massaman Curry
Alchemy

Alchemy

Vegan
📍 Ubud· Buffet4.4

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.

🍲 Build-your-own salad bar / Raw vegan desserts
Annalakshmi

Annalakshmi

Vegetarian
📍 Kuala Lumpur· Buffet4.5

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.

🍲 South Indian vegetarian buffet / Assorted curries with Indian breads
Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR)

Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR)

Vegetarian
📍 Bangalore· Budget Noodle4.6

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

🍲 Rava Idli / Masala Dosa
Swati Snacks

Swati Snacks

Vegetarian
📍 Mumbai· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Panki Chatni / Pav Bhaji
Hum Vegetarian

Hum Vegetarian

Vegetarian
📍 Ho Chi Minh City· Fine Dining4.6

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.

🍲 Lotus root with sesame salt / Pineapple fried rice
Pipino Vegetarian

Pipino Vegetarian

Vegetarian
📍 Manila· Light Meals4.4

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.

🍲 Vegetarian Kare-Kare / Meatless Sisig
Shanmugas

Shanmugas

Vegetarian
📍 Colombo· Budget Noodle4.5

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

🍲 Paper Masala Dosa / Idli

Africa

Plant

Plant

Vegan
📍 Cape Town· Fine Dining4.5

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

🍲 Vegan tagliatelle / Mushroom burger
Scheckter's Raw

Scheckter's Raw

Vegan
📍 Cape Town· Light Meals4.4

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

🍲 Raw dishes / Cold-pressed juices
Prashad Café

Prashad Café

Vegan
📍 Cape Town· Light Meals4.4

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

🍲 Indian vegetable curry / Whole-food plates
Fresh Earth Food Store

Fresh Earth Food Store

Vegetarian
📍 Johannesburg· Buffet4.4

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'.

🍲 Table of Abundance buffet / Vegetable curry
Earth Café

Earth Café

Vegetarian
📍 Marrakesh· Light Meals4.6

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.

🍲 Veggie burger / Vegetable spring rolls
Chowpaty

Chowpaty

Vegetarian
📍 Nairobi· Light Meals4.5

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.

🍲 Chaat / Masala dosa

Oceania

Smith & Daughters

Smith & Daughters

Vegan
📍 Melbourne· Fine Dining4.5

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

🍲 Vegan tacos / Vegan paella
Yellow

Yellow

Vegetarian
📍 Sydney· Fine Dining4.6

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

🍲 Vegetable tasting menu
Alibi

Alibi

Vegan
📍 Sydney· Fine Dining4.4

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

🍲 Creative vegan plates
Transformer

Transformer

Vegetarian
📍 Melbourne· Light Meals4.4

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

🍲 Seasonal vegetable plates
Shakahari

Shakahari

Vegetarian
📍 Melbourne· Fine Dining4.5

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.

🍲 Satay Shakahari / Krub Phom Dumplings
Bodhi Restaurant Bar

Bodhi Restaurant Bar

Vegan
📍 Sydney· Light Meals4.4

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.

🍲 Vegan Yum Cha Dumplings / Vietnamese Rice-Paper Rolls
Govinda's Vegetarian Restaurant

Govinda's Vegetarian Restaurant

Vegetarian
📍 Brisbane· Temple Hall4.4

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.

🍲 All-You-Can-Eat Vegetarian Plate / Indian Curries
Annalakshmi on the Swan

Annalakshmi on the Swan

Vegetarian
📍 Perth· Buffet4.6

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.

🍲 Vegetarian Buffet / Thali Set Meal
Aunty Mena's Vegetarian Cafe

Aunty Mena's Vegetarian Cafe

Vegetarian
📍 Wellington· Budget Noodle4.4

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.

🍲 Laksa / Vegetarian Dumplings