The best vegan restaurants in Austin.
Every restaurant on this list is fully vegan, so you can order anything on the menu without asking a single question.
Austin has two kinds of plant-based dining, and the difference decides your evening. There are kitchens where every item is vegan and you order blind, and there are much-loved vegetarian and omnivore rooms where you still have to ask about butter, cheese, fish sauce, and what the grill touched last. Everything in the numbered list below is in the first group. The vegetarian institutions and the vegan-friendly favorites are named further down and labeled for what they actually are, because blurring that line sends someone to a table where they cannot eat.
The picks below are our 2026 Eaters’ Choice. Featured spots can add this badge to their own site, free.- South Lamar · $ · fully vegan01
Mission Burger Co.
The whole operation runs out of the Barley Bean coffee shop at 3600 South Lamar, and the ordering menu tags nearly every item the same way: everything is vegan. Double Impossible smashburgers, a Crunchwrap, house queso on the Fiesta burger, a smoked brisket built from mushrooms, wings and nuggets, a fry bar, and milkshakes. Birria is a Wednesday and Thursday special. It runs 7am to 11pm every day of the week, so a full dinner at 10pm takes no planning, and the same group also runs Mission Street Burrito, Fair Game, and Pinsa Palace, plus a second Mission Burger in Atlanta. Counter service in a coffee-shop room, though. Parking is free in the adjacent lot, and there is more of it down the ramp.
- East Austin · $ · fully vegan02
The Vegan Nom
This started as a small all-vegan taco trailer in 2012 and has been serving inventive tacos, quesadillas, and queso at 2324 East Cesar Chavez ever since. Breakfast tacos start at 8am, and the Chips’n Queso, the KBBQ nachos, and the specialty tacos are what people cross town for. One catch runs the whole weekday: the kitchen closes between 2pm and 5pm Monday through Thursday, so a mid-afternoon taco run fails four days out of seven. Friday through Sunday it runs straight through, 8am to 10pm. Unusually for a taco spot, it takes reservations and books private parties, so a birthday dinner here is a real option rather than a scramble.
- East Austin · $ · fully vegan03
Arlo’s Junior
Arlo’s built its name on a plant-based burger, and this outpost runs as a counter inside the Lovebirds bar at 2337 East Cesar Chavez. The menu is short and the burger and the tots are the reason to come. It keeps bar hours rather than restaurant hours, opening at noon and running past midnight on Friday and Saturday, so it is the default answer for a vegan who wants real food after a show. Expect a bar, not a dining room, and expect it loud after 10pm. There is no website to speak of, just an ordering page, so treat the delivery menu as the whole menu.
- Tarrytown · $$$ · fully vegan04
Fabrik
Chef-owner Je Wallerstein runs a tasting room out of a very small dining room in the Tarrytown Shopping Center at 3108 Windsor Road, with five-course and eight-course menus that turn over with the season. Her training is the tell: stages at Michelin kitchens in Berlin, London, and Copenhagen, tofu and ramen learned from a Japanese chef, and Korean temple food from a Buddhist monk. Dinner is by reservation only, four nights a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), so it is the one place here you book weeks ahead rather than wander into. Fabrik’s own FAQ says everything is 100 percent vegan including the wine, and that matters more than it sounds, since fining agents make plenty of ordinary wine non-vegan. Two things to settle before you book: the kitchen cannot accommodate nut or soy allergies, and the tasting can run two and a half hours. This is the special-occasion answer, and it is priced like one.
- Tarrytown · $$ · fully vegan05
COMMUNITY Kitchen + Taproom
Marlon and Ericka towed a 1973 Winnebago Chieftain out of West Texas in 2020 and started selling fried mushrooms out of it in East Austin. The Tarrytown brick-and-mortar kept the Southern menu intact: fried oyster mushrooms, the lion’s mane nuggets they call the Dime Bag, chopped brisket sliders, slow-smoked burnt ends over baked mac and cheeze, blaze and glaze brussels, fried okra, and collards. The mushrooms are lion’s mane and oyster, from local farms. The taproom half pours local beer, cider, draft cocktails, and zero-proof options, so a mixed group can sit for three hours instead of eating and leaving. Read the hours twice, because they change shape every day: closed Monday and Tuesday, dinner only from 5pm to 9pm on Wednesday and Thursday, lunch and dinner on Friday with a 2pm to 5pm gap in the middle, straight through from noon to 9pm on Saturday, and Sunday brunch 11am to 3pm with biscuits, pancakes, grits, and bottomless coffee.
- North University · $$ · fully vegan06
Nori
Nori serves an entirely plant-based Japanese menu at 3208 Guadalupe, a few blocks off campus, and the range is wider than a sushi-substitute label suggests. Nigiri comes as shiitake, tomato, tofu, and avocado, the signature rolls run from a Buddha and an Inari to a Chick’n Katsu, and the mains list ends on a lion’s mane steak. Ramen is exactly two bowls, a creamy spicy tan tan and a creamy paitan, so do not come expecting a ramen menu. The small plates are the strength: cauliflower wings, chick’n karaage, tempura, spicy ponzu spring rolls, brussels sprouts, wakame salad, and gyoza in an Impossible or a shiitake version. Sunday adds a brunch of bao, croissants, okonomiyaki, and chick’n and waffles. It also takes OpenTable reservations and handles large parties, which almost nothing else on this list does. For anyone who quit sushi rather than keep negotiating with a sushi chef, this is the restaurant that hands it back.
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- Central Austin · $ · fully vegan07
Li’l Nonna’s
Everything here is East Coast pizza and everything here is vegan, with the mozzarella made in house rather than bought in. The Sicilian slice is thick and square, the Beeteroni ’n Cheese pie is the signature, the garlic knots come eight to an order with olive oil, nutritional yeast, and a side of red sauce, and every pie on the menu is also offered on a 12-inch gluten-free crust. It operates at Tweedy’s bar at 2908 Fruth Street in Central Austin, so a pie, a drink, and a table outside is the intended shape of the evening rather than a compromise. One warning comes from the shop itself: they say they rarely update their website, so check their Instagram or the online ordering page for current hours and prices before you drive over.
- Zilker · $$ · fully vegan08
Casa de Luz Village
There is no menu at Casa de Luz. You pay one price at the door and receive the day’s complete plate: soup, salad, a grain, legumes, cooked greens, vegetables, and a fermented pickle, cooked without processed oils or artificial additives. It is macrobiotic food served cafeteria-style at communal tables in a leafy compound near Zilker, open 7am to 8:30pm every single day including holidays. That makes it the most dependable vegan meal in the city on a Thanksgiving or a Tuesday alike. The tradeoff is control: you eat what the kitchen made that day. Parking is the other thing to plan. The lot across the street and the street spots both run through the Park ATX app, and Casa de Luz publishes two discount codes worth 30 free minutes a day; the lot is free after 4pm on weekdays and all weekend.
- North Austin · $ · fully vegan09
Bodhi Viet Veggie Cuisine
A group of Buddhist nuns and volunteers runs this fully vegan Vietnamese kitchen at 2301 West Parmer Lane, and the schedule is the thing to check before driving out: Thursday through Saturday only, 11am to 6pm. Their own description is meat-free and meat-alternative, and the alternatives are most of the menu. Beefless bò viên, grilled seitan BBQ, vegan char siu, crispy vegan calamari strips, shredded seitan jerky, a fermented dill ham, and a vegan meat-floss baguette. If imitation meat is not what you came for, the braised lemongrass tofu banh mi, the eggplant baguette, and the vermicelli plates are the way through. Prices are kept deliberately low because the mission is access rather than margin, and it shows on the receipt. Order ahead online, but note that their site currently warns the online payment system is down, so expect to settle up at pickup.
- North Austin · $ · fully vegan10
Nissi Vegan Mexican Cuisine
Every dish at Nissi is plant-based. That is a different proposition from a Mexican restaurant that bolted one tofu taco onto a meat menu: the birria, the carne asada burrito, the flautas, and the street tacos are all built from plant proteins and treated as the main event. It sits in a Research Boulevard strip center in north Austin and runs Monday through Saturday until 8pm. Counter service, strip-mall room, no ceremony. If you have spent years ordering bean and cheese minus the cheese, this is worth the drive north.
- North Loop · $$ · fully vegan11
Bistro Vonish
Craig Vanis left a career as an oilfield engineer for culinary school and has cooked fully vegan food out of a trailer on East 53rd ever since, in a backyard he shares with Zucchini Kill. The plates are composed and precise rather than trailer-casual, which puts it in a small category: fine-dining technique on vegetables, at trailer prices. Hours are the catch and they are narrow. Wednesday through Saturday, 3pm to 9pm, and closed Sunday through Tuesday, so an evening in the middle of the week is the only real window. Seating is the yard, so dress for the weather.
- South Austin · $ · fully vegan12
Revolution Vegan Kitchen
Revolution is the vegan trailer at Thicket, a food park at 7800 South First whose roster runs about a dozen trucks: tacos, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, shawarma, pizza, coffee, cheesecake. That is exactly why it works for a split group. One person orders here, everyone else orders ten feet away, and the table stays together. The menu is burgers, tacos, wraps, and sandwiches, and the two best sellers on its delivery listing are a Philly cheeze steak built from soy and wheat protein and a double Beyond-patty burger. One honest caveat: the trailer has no website of its own and the hours published for it disagree with each other, so check its Instagram before you drive down. Midday onward is the dependable window. This is the deep-south-Austin option, a long way from the East Cesar Chavez cluster.
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- Mueller · $ · fully vegan13
The BE Hive Deli & Market
The BE Hive makes seitan-based deli meats and cheeses, and its Mueller outpost is a full deli rather than a shelf in someone else’s grocery: the Classic sub, a Citrus BBQ club, a Nashville hot sandwich, tenders, plus packaged product to carry home. It is entirely plant-based and open 8am to 9pm seven days, the longest and least fussy hours on this list. The company started in Nashville and runs a deli there too, so this is a transplant rather than a homegrown Austin shop. Small counter, mixed-use block, built for a sandwich and a bag of groceries rather than a long sit.
- North Loop · $ · fully vegan14
Zucchini Kill Bakery
Every item in this musician-owned bakery is vegan, and the kitchen is also dedicated gluten free and soy free, a combination almost nothing else in Austin offers. Cupcakes, cookies, and pastries are the core, and the riot-grrrl name is an honest signal of the room’s personality rather than a marketing costume. The East 53rd Street shop shares the Wyrd Wood Village yard with Bistro Vonish and runs 3pm to 9pm on weekdays, 10am to 9pm Saturday, and 10am to 6pm Sunday, so dinner and dessert take exactly zero driving between them. A second counter sits at Tweedy’s bar on Fruth Street, next door to the vegan pizza, closed Monday and Tuesday and open late the rest of the week. Same-day online pickup orders only work at the 53rd Street location. It is a bakery, so plan it as a stop and not a meal.
The things we passed on are part of the value. Documented for editorial discipline.
- Bouldin Creek CafeVegetarian, not vegan. The kitchen serves dairy and eggs, right down to an omelette, so you are reading the menu carefully rather than ordering freely. The vegan queso is genuinely good and the late hours are real, and that combination is why it gets confused for a vegan restaurant so often.
- Mr. NaturalVegetarian rather than vegan, at both the plate-lunch counter and the bakery case. There is plenty a vegan can eat here, but it needs a question asked at every order, the opposite of what this list is for.
- Sri AnnapoornaPure vegetarian South Indian, not the same thing as vegan. Dosas and sambar are usually safe, and the paneer and ghee dishes are not. A good vegan meal is available; it just is not the default.
- Thai FreshAn omnivore restaurant with real vegan range, including vegan ice cream and a gluten-free bakery program. The kitchen still cooks meat, so it belongs on a vegan-friendly list rather than this one.
- True Food KitchenPlant-forward and easy to eat vegan at, but the menu also serves meat, fish, and dairy. That makes it vegan-friendly, not a vegan kitchen, and the difference is the whole point of this page.
- The Beer PlantAustin’s first vegan gastropub is gone. Its Windsor Road space is now Community Kitchen + Taproom, listed above, so the address still leads somewhere fully plant-based even though the sign changed.
- Rebel CheeseThe vegan cheese is excellent and still made in Austin. Rebel Cheese now ships instead of serving: the business is a cold-shipped cheese shop with a store locator, not a counter you sit down at, so the Mueller deli is not a place to send anyone for lunch. Order a board to your door instead.
- The Vegan YachtOne of the originals, and we want it on the list. Two different south Austin addresses with two different sets of hours are live at the same time, so we do not have a location we can stand behind and we are not sending you across town on a guess.
- Counter CultureThe East Austin dining room closed in January 2023, and the owner has spent the years since converting a mid-1960s building at 5810 Berkman in Windsor Park into a mid-century diner. Their site says summer 2026 and still lists the hours as coming soon, so check before you drive out. Worth watching if you remember the old brunch.
- Plow BurgerNo walk-up location anymore. The burgers live on as a delivery-only kitchen, so there is no counter, patio, or trailer window to go find and nowhere to sit down. Order it to your door or skip it.
- How can you tell if an Austin restaurant is fully vegan or just has vegan options?
- Fully vegan means every item in the kitchen is plant-based and you can order blind. Vegetarian means no meat but almost always dairy and eggs, and vegan-friendly means the kitchen cooks animal products and marks a few dishes for you. Austin has a great deal of the second and third categories and a real but finite number of the first, so the label on a list matters more here than the rating does.
- Is Austin a good city for vegans?
- Yes, with a geography caveat. The all-vegan kitchens are scattered from Mueller to Tarrytown to a Research Boulevard strip center rather than clustered in one walkable district, so eating well as a vegan in Austin usually involves a car or a plan. Once you have that, the range covers tacos, sushi, pizza, Southern comfort food, Vietnamese, macrobiotic plates, and a tasting menu.
- Where can vegans and non-vegans eat together in Austin?
- Two formats work reliably. Food parks let one person order from the plant-based trailer while everyone else orders from the trailer beside it, and the all-vegan places with a bar or taproom attached are the ones omnivores settle into rather than endure. The format that goes wrong is a steakhouse with a single vegan entree, where one person eats a side dish for dinner.
- Is there vegan barbecue in Austin?
- There is no well-known all-vegan barbecue restaurant operating in Austin right now. Vegan brisket, ribs, and burnt ends instead show up as smoked mushroom, seitan, and jackfruit dishes on plant-based restaurant menus, so order them where you find them rather than driving out to a pit. In a barbecue city, this is the most common disappointment for visiting vegans.
- Where can you get vegan food in Austin late at night?
- East Cesar Chavez is the answer most nights, because the plant-based kitchens attached to bars there keep bar hours rather than restaurant hours. South Lamar has one option running late every day too. Almost everything else closes by 8pm or 9pm, and several places shut two or three days a week, so late-night vegan eating in Austin is a short list rather than a scene.
- Do Austin vegan restaurants take reservations?
- Mostly walk-up, with three real exceptions. The Tarrytown tasting room is reservation-only, four nights a week, and the one to book well ahead instead of the night of. The all-vegan sushi room near the UT campus takes OpenTable bookings and handles large parties, and the East Cesar Chavez taco spot takes reservations and books private parties. Everywhere else is counter service or a trailer window, though the Tarrytown taproom asks groups over eight to give a heads-up.
- Is there gluten-free vegan food in Austin?
- Yes, and one option removes the cross-contamination question entirely: a fully vegan bakery in the North Loop area that is also a dedicated gluten-free and soy-free kitchen. For meals, corn-tortilla taco trailers and bowl-based menus are the easiest path, and the counters are used to the question. Ask about the fryer, which is where shared gluten usually hides.
- What is the difference between plant-based and vegan on a menu?
- In practice, plant-based describes the dish and vegan describes the kitchen. A plant-based patty can still be griddled next to beef, finished in butter, or served on a brioche bun made with egg. Asking about the bun, the sauce, and the cook surface catches most of the gap, and at an all-vegan kitchen you never have to ask at all.
- Where should a visitor without a car eat vegan in Austin?
- The UT campus area has the densest walkable cluster. A vegan sushi room sits on Guadalupe, and about half a mile west on Fruth Street a vegan pizza counter and a vegan bakery share one bar, so all three are a walk rather than a drive. East Cesar Chavez is the other cluster and is a short ride from downtown. Anything on Research Boulevard or West Parmer is a car trip, so plan those for a day you are already driving north.
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