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Cuisine à la vegan

Fine dining also offers the possibility of eating vegan: Truly fresh is the JOLA – a totally new vegan restaurant – without an à la carte offering, but instead with special surprise menus. The menus comprise several dishes, the cooking is seasonal and regional. Thus up to nine courses are served. If you'd prefer to sample something new instead of having wine as an accompaniment then you can taste your way through self-produced, fermented beverages.

Upscale vegan cuisine is served by Tian in Vienna city center. This vegan restaurant is definitely one of Vienna's luxury restaurants: Here, you can enjoy exciting vegan and vegetarian menus that have even been awarded a star by the Michelin Guide. The elegant Vollwertrestaurant Lebenbauer in the 1st district also offers a colorful repertoire of creative dishes, almost all of which can be prepared in a purely vegetarian style. At the vegetarian/vegan restaurant Landia, guests can even eat a vegan version of the Viennese classic "Onion roast with bread dumpling".

It is almost always possible to order purely vegan in the oriental bistros and restaurants on Vienna's Naschmarkt. Delicacies from the Middle East entice alongside meat-free dishes from the Far East. Asian cuisine such as Thai, Indian or Japanese contains many vegan dishes by their very nature, and Vienna's organic restaurants are often vegan and vegetarian.

Buffets & takeouts

Vegan superfood California-style is cooked at The Lala – enjoy to go or in the pink-designed eatery.

Vegetasia is a long-standing establishment in Vienna, having first opened in 1988. Here the dishes are prepared with fresh natural ingredients that are free from glutamate and in accordance with the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine. The All You Can Eat Buffet and the Hot Pot Buffet are particularly popular.

Spontaneously vegan?

For a quick bite to eat: fast food can also be vegan! Many restaurants in Vienna show that burgers and other fast food favorites also taste really good in the vegan or veggie version. Vegan pioneer Karl Schillinger serves very popular meat-free fast food at the five locations of his Swing Kitchen. And yes, the vegan burgers taste as good as they look. The Loving Hut is an innovative fast-food chain with two outlets in Vienna and offers exclusively vegan meals. The vegan bistro chain Veggiezz is represented with two outlets in Vienna and serves burgers, chickpea pasta, wraps and more with meat substitutes. Lin’s veggie DUMPLIN’ offers authentic, vegan Taiwanese dishes such as dumplings, noodle soups, bao zi (steamed buns), zha jiang noodles and the very popular spicy Volcano Noodle Soup.

Cafés & bistros

At Süßkind Veganery, quality and an awareness of food come top of the list – that's why the 100% organically certified dishes are only available while stocks last. If you can't make up your mind then opt for "all sorts" for a little bit of everything. The Tian Bistro is just made for vegan breakfasts and brunches. At the restaurant Schlicht Vegan, the focus is on vegan Austrian cuisine and a zero-waste philosophy. Because having a picnic in Vienna is so nice, you can pre-order a vegan picnic basket including blanket from Harvest Bistro on Karmelitermarkt, before you head for a picnic in the nearby Augarten, Prater or on Danube Island.

Café Ausnahmsweise serves up delicious gluten-free, vegan patisserie with ingredients from controlled organic cultivation. Warm dishes such as lentil curry are also served at lunchtime. At Vienna's first fully vegan ice cream parlor, Veganista Ice Cream, you can eat vegan ice cream at several locations: both unusual and "classic" varieties are prepared sustainably and fairly here, completely without animal products. Patisserie Moriz delights with creative, vegan treats: from popular purely plant-based curd cheese pockets to croissants with vanilla ice cream, Viennese iced coffee and much more. All made from high-quality regional organic ingredients that enrich the traditional Viennese coffee house culture.

Unusual vegan restaurants

The Gagarin has an abstract impact not only because it is named after the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin but also because the anti-commercially run café offers customers the possibility to settle up according to the "pay as you wish" principle. The collectively run café offers space for simple but good vegetarian/vegan food and social interaction. Also atypical is Rupp's, an Irish pub with a vegan touch on the menu.

Tip: A look at the restaurant database of the Vegan Society in Vienna is worthwhile.

Restaurants

Jola

Salzgries 15
1010 Vienna

TIAN Restaurant Vienna

Himmelpfortgasse 23
1010 Vienna
  • Opening times

    • Tu - Sa, 18:00 - 23:00
  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • 2 Steps (Automatic sliding doors )
    • Side entrance
      • no steps
    • Further information
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.

Lebenbauer

Teinfaltstraße 3
1010 Vienna

Landia

Ahornergasse 4
1070 Vienna

Vegan buffets

The LaLa

Neustiftgasse 23
1070 Vienna

Vegetasia Experimental Soya

Ungargasse 57
1030 Vienna

Fast Food

Schillinger's Swing Kitchen

Schottenfeldgasse 3
1070 Wien

Schillinger's Swing Kitchen Alsergrund

Währinger Straße 47
1090 Wien

Schillinger's Swing Kitchen Josefstädter Straße

Josefstädter Straße 73
1080 Wien

Schillinger's Swing Kitchen Operngasse

Operngasse 24
1040 Wien

Schillinger's Swing Kitchen Schwedenplatz

Schwedenplatz 3-4, Top 4-5
1010 Wien

Loving Hut Vienna Neubau

Neubaugürtel 38/5
1070 Vienna
  • Opening times

    • Mo, 12:00 - 21:00
    • We - Fr, 12:00 - 21:00
    • on holidays - Sa, 12:00 - 22:00
    • Su, 13:00 - 21:00

Loving Hut Wienerberg

Maria-Kuhn-Gasse 6
1100 Wien
  • Opening times

    • Tu - Th, 11:30 - 14:30 , 17:00 - 21:00
    • Fr, 11:30 - 14:30 , 17:00 - 21:30
    • Sa, 12:00 - 21:30
    • Su, 12:00 - 21:00

Veggiezz - Your Vegan Dining Room Salzgries

Salzgries 9
1010 Vienna

Veggiezz - Your Vegan Dining Room Opernring

Opernring 6
1010 Vienna

Lin's veggie DUMPLIN'

Neubaugasse 70
1070 Wien

Cafés & bistros

Suess'kind Veganery

Sparefrohgasse 1
1030 Vienna

Tian Bistro on Spittelberg

Schrankgasse 4
1070 Vienna
  • Opening times

    • Tu - Fr, 17:00 - 22:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 14:00 , 17:00 - 22:00

Schlicht vegan

Veronikagasse 17
1160 Vienna

Harvest Café-Bistrot

Karmeliterplatz 1
1020 Wien
  • Opening times

    • Mo - Tu, 14:00 - 23:00
    • Th - Fr, 14:00 - 23:00
    • Sa - Su, 10:00 - 23:00
    • on holidays, 10:00 - 23:00

Veganista Ice Cream Alserbachstraße

Alserbachstraße 5
1090 Vienna

Veganista Ice Cream Neustiftgasse

Neustiftgasse 23
1070 Vienna

Veganista Ice Cream Margaretenstrasse

Margaretenstraße 51
1050 Vienna

Veganista Ice Cream Taborstraße

Taborstraße 15
1020 Vienna

Veganista Ice Cream Ungargasse

Ungargasse 55
1030 Vienna

Moriz

Mariahilfer Straße 204
1150 Vienna
  • Opening times

    • Mo - Th, 07:00 - 17:00
    • Fr, 07:00 - 22:00
    • Sa, 09:00 - 22:00
    • Su, 09:00 - 20:00

Unusual and good

Café Gagarin

Garnisongasse 24
1090 Wien
  • Opening times

    • Mo, 09:30 - 01:00
    • Tu, 09:30 - 01:00
    • We, 09:30 - 01:00
    • Th, 09:30 - 01:00
    • Fr, 09:30 - 01:00

Das Rupp's Irish Pub

Arbeitergasse 46
1050 Wien

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