Whether you’re a devoted vegan or vegetarian or just want to incorporate more vegetables and less meat and dairy into your daily meals, these restaurants and bakeries offer some of the tastiest and most creative vegan (sometimes called “plant-based”) dishes in Philly.
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Top Vegan Restaurants in Philadelphia
Find meatless and dairy-free pizza, cheesesteaks, doughnuts, sushi, and more at Philadelphia’s best vegan and vegetarian restaurants and bakeries

The Nile Cafe
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.
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Crust Vegan Bakery
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.
Vegan-ish (multiple locations)
In Cedar Park and Spring Garden, Vegan-ish serves up some of the best pub-style vegan and pescatarian food around, with filling salads, cheesesteaks, hoagies, and burgers, including a Philly Special topped with — what else? — long hots and vegan Cheez Whiz.
Primary Plant Based
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.
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Pietramala
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.
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Luhv Vegan Deli (multiple locations)
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.
Tomo Sushi & Ramen
It’s not always easy to find exciting vegan sushi options, but Tomo has the goods with an entire menu of vegan rolls that feature ingredients like eel made out of eggplant and tuna made of marinated tomato. The Old City BYOB also serves vegan mochi and a popular plant-based ramen filled with savory ingredients like seitan teriyaki and black fungus mushrooms.
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20th Street Pizza
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.
Bar Bombón
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.
Vedge
Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby reinvented meatless dining in Philly by making vegetables — not meat substitutes — the star at Vedge, an elegant eatery set in a former mansion in Center City. Through culinary skill and maybe a little magic, rutabaga transforms into fondue and radishes impersonate sushi. Vedge also has a killer cocktail menu and natural wine list.
Monster Vegan
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.
Algorithm Vegan Grill
Fast-casual Algorithm Vegan Grill opened in Queen Village recently, adding a fixed location for Algorithm Food Truck’s flavor-packed vegan fare — seitan cheesesteaks with Calabrian chile Whiz, watermelon “tuna” tacos, and Korean barbecue fries, among others — plus rotating milkshake flavors like carrot cake and raspberry-sumac. Check Algorithm’s Instagram if you’re trying to track down the cerulean-blue truck, which pulls up at places such as Philadelphia Brewing Company.
Fitz on 4th
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.
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Miss Rachel's Pantry
Step up dinnertime with a five-course meal made for two at this charming BYOB housed behind a South Philly garage door. The menu changes every week, but always includes biscuits, a salad with house-made cheese, soup, a pasta course, a hearty entree, and dessert, typically a seasonal cake with house-made ice cream. Reservations are required; dinner dates are released on the first Friday of every month.
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Ground Provisions
Vedge owners Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby take their love for vegan cuisine to West Chester with an ambitious tasting menu that includes seared cauliflower, cured radish, polenta cornbread, and more.
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