Vienna is one of the few capitals that makes serious wine inside its own city limits, and its coffee house culture sits on Austria’s national list of intangible cultural heritage. Both traditions now come in plant-based form, from a Michelin-starred vegan tasting menu to Kaiserschmarren at a cash-only café and croissants with proper honeycomb layers.
The city is split into 23 numbered districts, called Bezirke, and most of these picks sit in the 1st (Innere Stadt, the old centre), the 2nd, the 7th and the 9th. Everything is walkable or a short tram ride apart. For the next trip, browse all the vegan travel destinations.
Vegan Vienna at a Glance
- Best splurge: Jola, a Michelin-starred vegan surprise menu
- Best brunch and sharing plates: Lara
- Best vegetarian tasting menu with a vegan version: Tian
- Best vegan Viennese classics: Café Harvest
- Best central lunch: Veggiezz Salzgries
- Best fast food: Swing Kitchen
- Best garden lunch: My Secret Garden
- Best pastries: Chez Fritz
- Best ice cream: Veganista
Best Vegan Restaurants in Vienna
1. Jola: Vegan Surprise Menu with a Michelin Star Vegan
Jola holds a Michelin star for a fully vegan surprise menu of around ten small courses. Reviewers single out the raviolo stuffed with aubergine ragout under an intense tomato essence, the charred cauliflower, and vanilla ice cream finished with pumpkin seed oil, the dark green, nutty salad oil from Styria in southern Austria.
Desserts are a strong suit, with dill ice cream and poached rhubarb both getting fan mail. The name joins the first syllables of the founders, chef Jonathan Wittenbrink and host Larissa Andres. It has eight plain wooden tables and gold-painted pipes overhead, so it feels like a dinner party, and the menu is printed on seed paper you can plant.
💡 Tip: Book well ahead. Jola serves dinner only, is closed Monday and Tuesday, and offers a wine or alcohol-free pairing with the menu.
📍 Salzgries 15, 1010 Vienna | Innere Stadt | 🌐 jola.wien
2. Lara: Sharing Plates and Saturday Brunch from the Jola Team Vegan
Order the glazed crispy fried mushrooms, which come sweet, sticky and spicy. At dinner, the glazed focaccia with white bean dip is airy and hard to share, and the smoked croquettes with yuzukoshō, a salty Japanese chilli and citrus paste, arrive crisp outside with a smoky potato and tofu filling. The mushroom shawarma tortilla with salsa verde is the filling one.
Saturday brunch brings coconut pandan brioche and a soft caramelised French toast with light vanilla cream. The Jola founders opened Lara in June 2025 a few steps from their starred restaurant, and the name is an old school nickname of Larissa’s. Expect house-made pasta and family-dinner dishes with no meat substitutes, all served for sharing.
💡 Tip: Brunch runs on Saturdays only, 10AM to 2PM, and dinner is Tuesday to Saturday from 5:30PM. Plates are small, so order three or four for two people.
📍 Passauer Platz 2, 1010 Vienna | Innere Stadt | ☎️ +43 1 208 05 33 | 🌐 lara.wien | 📸 @lara.dining
3. Tian: Organic Fine Dining with a Vegan Menu on Request Vegetarian
Tian holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide for six- or eight-course vegetarian tasting menus, and every menu can be made fully vegan. Courses read like a market list in miniature: chioggia beetroot with radish and juneberry, or king oyster mushroom with pumpkin and elderflower, built on organic produce, much of it Demeter-certified biodynamic.
The standard menus use dairy and egg, so say vegan when you book and the kitchen reworks every course. Chefs Paul Ivić and Florian Burtscher cook in an elegant historic dining room on Himmelpfortgasse, a side street off Kärntner Straße, the main shopping street. The wine list is organic too, which suits the whole approach.
💡 Tip: Tian serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday, 6PM to 11PM. Its casual sister, Tian Bistro am Spittelberg in the 7th district, is the easier booking.
📍 Himmelpfortgasse 23, 1010 Vienna | Innere Stadt | ☎️ +43 1 890 4665 | 🌐 tian-restaurant.com
4. Café Harvest: Vegan Viennese Classics in Leopoldstadt Vegan
Come hungry for Viennese comfort food made vegan: goulash, schnitzel, and the Sissi Kaiserschmarren, a torn and caramelised pancake. Reviewers also love the Schinken-Käse Roggentoast, a ham-and-cheese rye toast with a punchy aioli on the side, and the cake counter, where the chocolate cake and the tiramisu are the slices to grab.
The menu also wanders to bulgogi, Korean-style marinated stir-fry, and Mangoldknödel, Swiss chard dumplings, cooked with organic and fair-trade produce where possible. Harvest sits on Karmeliterplatz in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district across the Danube Canal. It is small, warm and busy, a café for long chats, and portions lean modest.
💡 Tip: Bring cash, because Harvest does not take cards. It opens at 9AM on weekdays, and the Sunday brunch fills up, so ring ahead to book.
📍 Karmeliterplatz 1, 1020 Vienna | Leopoldstadt | ☎️ +43 676 4927790 | 🌐 harvest-bistrot.at
5. Veggiezz Salzgries: Gyros Bowls and Vegan Sachertorte Vegan
The gyros bowl is the bestseller, piled high and filling. The burgers get the loudest praise, with reviewers calling them the best they have had, and the wraps make a solid lunch. Save room for the vegan Sachertorte, Vienna’s dense chocolate cake with a layer of apricot jam, which keeps turning up in happy reviews.
Other bowls run from curry quinotto, a risotto-style quinoa, to rainbow tofu, and gluten-free burger buns are available. Veggiezz is two minutes from Schwedenplatz, the canal-side tram and U-Bahn hub, with an open kitchen, white wood inside and bright chairs outside in summer. Soups get mixed reviews, so stick with bowls and burgers.
💡 Tip: It opens daily until 10PM, from 11AM on weekdays and 12PM on weekends, and the kitchen closes at 9:30PM. Groups should book, and the basement takes parties of up to 30.
📍 Salzgries 9, 1010 Vienna | Innere Stadt | ☎️ +43 1 532 2650 | 🌐 veggiezzsalzgries.at
6. Swing Kitchen: Vegan Fast Food Burgers by the Canal Vegan
Order a burger: the Classic Cheeze, the Truffle Melt or the Pulled BBQ, and one regular swears they taste better than any meat dish. Add sweet fries or the loaded truffle cheeze fries, and get the 20-piece nuggets if you are sharing. The Hot Honny Chick’n Planty, a crispy chick’n sandwich, is the pick for spice.
Swing Kitchen started in Vienna in 2015 as a fully vegan burger chain, and this branch sits right on Schwedenplatz, steps from the Danube Canal promenade. Reviewers praise fast, friendly service and a spotless dining area, and the value is good. It is the place for a quick dinner before a walk along the water.
💡 Tip: It opens daily from 11AM to 10PM. A second Vienna branch is at Josefstädter Straße 73 in the 8th district.
📍 Schwedenplatz 3-4, 1010 Vienna | Innere Stadt | 🌐 swingkitchen.com
7. My Secret Garden: Ayurvedic Curries in a Courtyard Garden Vegetarian
Go for the Ayurvedic curries and the big, generous salads, which change with the weekly specials, then finish with a vegan cake such as the walnut brownie or Karamellschnitte, a layered caramel slice. Fans order the Indian chai latte, which comes with oat, almond or soy milk and tastes properly spiced.
The café hides in the Raimundhof, a courtyard passage off Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna’s busiest shopping street, and the garden seating is a green, calm escape from the crowds. The kitchen follows the teachings of the meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy, cooks with organic, regional produce and serves no alcohol. It is vegetarian, so some cakes and dishes contain dairy or egg.
💡 Tip: Open Monday to Saturday, 11AM to 7PM, and closed Sunday. Ask which of the day’s dishes are vegan when you order.
📍 Mariahilfer Straße 45 (Raimundhof), 1060 Vienna | Mariahilf | ☎️ +43 1 586 2839 | 🌐 secretgardenrestaurant.at
8. Chez Fritz: Vienna’s First Vegan Pâtisserie Vegan
Get the croissant first, because reviewers rave about its open honeycomb layers and real buttery flavour. Then add something from the pastry case, like the pistachio roll, the Sour Hazel with hazelnut and lemon, or the tarte au citron. The bakes are balanced, never cloying, and the most popular ones sell out before lunch.
Isabella Hofmann and Arik Mähr opened Chez Fritz on Servitengasse in Alsergrund, the 9th district, as Vienna’s first fully vegan pâtisserie in the French style. Everything is made by hand in-house, from pain au chocolat and éclairs to brioche, and the seasonal specials stretch to a Bûche de Noël, a chocolate yule log, at Christmas.
💡 Tip: The café is open Thursday to Saturday, 10AM to 6PM, and pre-orders can be collected Tuesday and Wednesday, 11AM to 5PM. Arrive early on Saturday, before the croissants run out.
📍 Servitengasse 13, 1090 Vienna | Alsergrund | 🌐 chezfritz.at | 📸 @chezfritz.patisserie
9. Veganista: Vegan Ice Cream Across the City Vegan
Veganista scoops 18 flavours a day, from chocolate and strawberry to basil and maple pecan, all made fresh each morning. Start with a herby one like basil and pair it with something rich. Most bases use soy milk, with oat, almond, rice or coconut versions for allergies, and there are sugar-free and gluten-free options too.
Two sisters, Cecilia and Susanna, built Veganista from a single shop on Neustiftgasse in Neubau, the 7th district, into ten shops across Vienna plus two airport counters. The original sits on a pretty walk between the MuseumsQuartier, the big museum complex, and the cobbled lanes of Spittelberg, so plan a cone between galleries.
💡 Tip: Most shops open from 12PM or 1PM until 9PM or 10PM daily. There is a branch at the MuseumsQuartier main entrance and another on Tuchlauben in the old centre.
📍 Neustiftgasse 23, 1070 Vienna (plus nine more shops) | Neubau | 🌐 veganista.at
Heurigen: Wine Taverns Inside Vienna’s City Limits
Vienna has more than 600 hectares of vineyards inside the city limits, on the slopes of Grinzing, Nussdorf, Stammersdorf and Mauer. A Heuriger, meaning “this year’s”, is a winemaker’s tavern pouring its own young wine. The ones open that week hang a bundle of pine branches over the door, a custom called ausg’steckt, or “hung out”.
Order a Gemischter Satz, the city’s own field blend of several grape varieties grown and pressed together. The buffet leans on roast pork, cold cuts and Liptauer, a paprika cheese spread, so eat dinner first and come for the wine, bread, pickles and the view back over the city. Tram D runs to Nussdorf, and bus 38A climbs to Grinzing.
Vegan Vienna: What to Know Before You Go
- Plan around closing days. Jola shuts Monday and Tuesday, Tian and Lara close Sunday and Monday, My Secret Garden closes Sunday, and Chez Fritz opens its café only Thursday to Saturday.
- Shops, supermarkets included, close on Sundays across Austria, so stock up on Saturday. Billa and Spar supermarkets carry plant-based milks, cheeses and ready meals.
- Carry some cash. Café Harvest takes cash only, and smaller cafés and Heurigen can be cash-only too.
- On traditional menus, Wiener Schnitzel is breaded veal, Tafelspitz is boiled beef, and Knödel (dumplings) and Kaiserschmarren usually contain egg. Get your vegan versions at Café Harvest and Veggiezz.
- Tap water arrives by aqueduct from Alpine springs and tastes excellent, so refill a bottle at the drinking fountains around the city.
- Munich is about four hours west by train, and the vegan Munich guide covers the next stop.
When to Visit Vienna
May, June and September bring warm days, café terraces and the Heurigen in full swing, while July and August run hot and plenty of locals leave town. Book Saturday brunch at Lara and Sunday brunch at Harvest a few days ahead in any season.
From mid-November until just before Christmas, Christmas markets fill Rathausplatz, the square in front of City Hall, and the lanes of Spittelberg. January and February are ball season, when the city dresses up and dances, and that is the cosiest time for a long afternoon with cake in a coffee house.
Vegan Vienna FAQ
Is Vienna good for vegans?
Yes. Vienna has fully vegan places at every level, from the Michelin-starred Jola to burgers at Swing Kitchen and croissants at Chez Fritz.
What is the best vegan fine dining in Vienna?
Where can I eat vegan Viennese classics?
Café Harvest makes vegan goulash, schnitzel and Kaiserschmarren, and Veggiezz Salzgries serves a vegan Sachertorte.
Where is the best vegan brunch in Vienna?
Lara runs a vegan brunch on Saturdays from 10AM to 2PM, and Café Harvest is busy for Sunday brunch, so book both ahead.
Where can I get vegan pastries and ice cream in Vienna?
Chez Fritz is a fully vegan French pâtisserie open Thursday to Saturday, and Veganista has ten vegan ice cream shops across the city.
Which vegan places in Vienna are open on Sunday and Monday?
Veggiezz Salzgries, Swing Kitchen and Veganista open daily, and Café Harvest opens every day too.
Can vegans enjoy a Heuriger in Vienna?
Yes, for the wine, bread and pickles. The buffet is heavy on pork and cheese spreads, so eat at a place like Veggiezz first, then take tram D to Nussdorf.