Vegan soul food shines at the long-standing Nile Cafe, a casual Germantown spot serving fresh-pressed juices and vegan entrees like barbecue chicken alongside collard greens, cabbage, and cornbread. Make sure to get a slice of house-made cake or a scoop of non-dairy ice cream too.

This women-owned bakery in Manayunk sells a rotating menu of beautiful vegan baked goods, including cheesecakes, cookies, scones, coffee cakes, and seasonal pastries inspired by Pop-Tarts. You can also find Crust Vegan Bakery’s treats at a ton of other restaurants around town, including West Philly and South Philly locations of vegan cafe Grindcore House.

Float Dreamery — the “cow-lorie free” vegan gelato venture — operates periodically out of the side window of Fishtown favorite Castellino’s Italian Market. Check the timing online, and consider preordering, as innovative flavors like Canadian Cafe — cold brew maple gelato, torched marshmallow, and cookie butter stracciatella — go quickly. Occasionally you’ll get lucky with a walk-up order, though.

Matt Cahn’s excellent Middle Child luncheonette in West Washington Square serves a few thoughtful vegetarian or vegan options, including the Phoagie, a hoagie stuffed with hoisin eggplant and pho sauce. The Middle Child Clubhouse in Fishtown expands upon the original location in most ways, including the size of its space, hours of service, and meat-free options. The buffalo ranch tofu here is a doozy, a sky-high sandwich made with crispy Corn Flake-fried tofu, house Buffalo sauce, celery, and ranch. You can even order it vegetarian, vegan, and/or gluten-free.

Just a year after debuting as a pop-up out of Khyber Pass Pub, Primary Plant Based opened its first BYOB brick-and-mortar in Fishtown. Chef Mark McKinney serves creative, vegetable-focused vegan dishes that range from kohlrabi hand pies to yuba noodle salad to jackfruit carnitas sandwiched between plantain French toast.

The long-running Soy Cafe makes much of its mostly vegan food in-house, including gluten-free bagels and cashew cheese. The Northern Liberties spot has a coffee shop feel but extensive food options — breakfast sandwiches, soups, filling salads, wraps, pastries, and more.

Pietramala is a Northern Liberties vegan BYOB that lets local, seasonal produce shine. Naturally, the menu changes frequently, but it always maintains a high level of quality so you can’t go wrong whether a dish highlights maitake mushrooms, delicata squash, or cabbage and dandelion.

Luhv serves up vegan deli fare at its Hatboro bistro and Reading Terminal Market stand. The market location sells cold cuts and sliced cheeses to go along with sandwiches like smoked golden beet lox and cream cheese on a bagel and a top-notch Reuben on rye. If you haven’t tried it yet, start with the tuna salad, combining elements such as chickpeas and seaweed — it’s a customer favorite for good reason.

This Rittenhouse restaurant sells square pan pies with perfectly chewy crusts along with classic round pies with topping choices like vegan sausage and cashew mozz. Don’t sleep on 20th Street Pizza’s garlic knots topped with vegan Parmesan.

A milk-free tres leches cake? If anyone can make it work, it’s Nicole Marquis, best known for vegan chain HipCityVeg. In Rittenhouse, her Bar Bombón infuses Philly’s vegan scene with Latin flavors, from popular steak empanadas and buffalo cauliflower tacos to cocktail options like a salted grapefruit margarita.

There’s nothing like a good doughnut. Luckily, the ones at Dottie’s Donuts aren’t just good vegan doughnuts, they’re good doughnuts, period. If you show up with a dozen Dottie’s in flavors like raspberry, lemon-poppy, chocolate-pistachio, and toasted coconut cream, you’ll be the most popular person at the next work mixer.

Monster Vegan serves up some spine-tingling, deceptively meatless food. Owned and operated by couple Ron Tadeo and Lauren Margaretta, who came together over a love of horror films, the central restaurant serves classic pasta dishes like spicy rigatoni bolognese and truffle Alfredo spaghetti as well as decidedly less-Italian dishes such as fried chicken banh mi and fajita chicken egg rolls, plus tons of clever cocktails and mocktails.

Whether you’re interested in fun cocktails, graffiti, billiards, or vegan food, Society Hill’s Tattooed Mom has it all. Try the top-selling Nashville hot chicken sandwich, featuring gluten-based “chicken” doused in hot sauce. paired with tots for the ultimate T-Mom experience, and wash it all down with a cocktail like the Cosmo Cloud, a cosmopolitan that’s poured over a cup of strawberry cotton candy.

Mother-and-son team Alison Fitzpatrick and Alex Soto’s Fitz on 4th is a vegan tapas restaurant that focuses not only on unstuffy vegan dishes but also on interesting vegan cocktails. The duo encourages everyone to eat at least one vegan meal per week, and their Queen Village spot makes it easy with the likes of edamame dumplings and cavatappi pasta tossed with foraged mushrooms, herbaceous olive oil, and cashew cheese.

The charmingly retro Tasty takes on diner fare minus the meat and dairy. Get to this South Philly diner as early as 8 a.m. for house-made doughnuts and breakfast classics like a vegan pork roll on a kaiser roll. The full breakfast and lunch menu kicks in at 9 a.m. so you can also score pancakes, waffles, and sandwiches like a BLT with coconut bacon or the Cheezsteak with seitan on a Sarcone’s roll.

This casual South Philly staple brings an old-school Italian feel and a menu that caters to both omnivores and vegans alike. From spaghetti and meatballs to wings to pizza to mozzarella sticks to cheesesteaks, most of Triangle Tavern’s dishes also come in meat-free, dairy-free versions. Be sure to share an order of garlicky broccoli rabe.