Hamburg has around 2,500 bridges, more than Venice and Amsterdam combined, and a good eating day here crosses plenty of them. The best plant-based cooking is spread across the neighbourhoods: Sichuan noodles and donuts in the Schanze (Sternschanze, the bar-lined quarter west of the centre), brunch opposite a wartime bunker in St. Pauli, and Vietnamese small plates by the Stadtpark in Winterhude.
I would book The Vegan Eagle first, because its tables go fast, then build the rest of the trip around the Schanze and St. Pauli, where four of these places sit within walking distance of each other. Every place on this list is meat-free, and most are fully vegan. For more cities, browse the vegan destinations guides.
Vegan Hamburg at a Glance
- Best all-day brunch: Happenpappen
- Best garden dinner: The Vegan Eagle
- Best for sharing Vietnamese plates: Bodhi
- Best weekday lunch in the centre: Café Nasch
- Best meal before a train: Vincent
- Best evening off the tourist trail: iNNERLUCK
- Best for chilli and Sichuan pepper: Cài Kitchen
- Best cake and donuts: Kjeks
- Best late dessert: Röllchen
Best Vegan Restaurants in Hamburg
1. Happenpappen: All-Day Brunch Across From the Bunker Vegan
Order the chimichurri grilled cheese, the sandwich regulars keep naming, with a wedge of quiche on the side. The rest of the menu runs to tempeh sandwiches, club sandwiches, burgers and big salad bowls, and the counter is stacked with cakes and pies for afterwards. Brunch is served all day, so a 3PM breakfast is completely normal here.
Happenpappen sits on Feldstraße directly opposite the Bunker, the huge wartime flak tower that now carries a public garden on its roof. Climb the Bunker first and come down hungry, as plenty of visitors do. The café is bright, plant-filled and busy around 2PM on Saturdays, when food can take a little while to arrive.
💡 Tip: Go Tuesday to Sunday between 10:30AM and 6PM. The kitchen stops at 5PM, and the café is closed on Mondays. Feldstraße station on the U3 is right outside.
📍 Feldstraße 36, 20357 Hamburg | St. Pauli | 🌐 happenpappen.de | 📸 @happenpappen.stpauli
2. The Vegan Eagle: A Garden Restaurant in Hamburg’s North Vegan
Order the Jäger-Boulette, a German pan-fried patty with mushroom gravy (Jäger means hunter), which return visitors call delicious every time. The Thai curry and the tapas plates for sharing come up again and again in reviews, and the crème brûlée is the dessert people mention by name. The menu follows the seasons, so expect a few new dishes.
The Vegan Eagle has been cooking plant-based food in Langenhorn, far up in Hamburg’s north, for more than ten years, and one longtime regular says the quality has never slipped. The garden is the big draw in summer, dogs and children are welcome, and tables are limited, so a booking is close to essential.
💡 Tip: From October 2026 it opens Tuesday to Saturday, 5PM to 10PM, with last kitchen orders at 9:30PM, and closes on Sundays and Mondays. Book online or by phone, then ride the U1 north to Langenhorn.
📍 Wischhöfen 4, 22415 Hamburg | Langenhorn | ☎️ +49 40 28478767 | 🌐 theveganeagle.com | 📸 @theveganeagle
3. Bodhi: Vegan Vietnamese Small Plates in Winterhude Vegan
Order a spread to share: the tartare, papaya salad, mango salad, summer rolls and edamame are the plates recent diners list as favourites. The udon noodle bowl has its own fan club for anyone who wants a bowl to themselves. Small plates are the format here, and four or five between two people works well.
Bodhi is a fully vegan Vietnamese restaurant on Borgweg, a calm residential street in Winterhude beside the Stadtpark, Hamburg’s big city park. The menu is long enough that staff often help first-timers choose, which reviewers appreciate. It suits a slow dinner as well as a quick lunch, and it opens every day of the week.
💡 Tip: Bodhi opens at 11:30AM daily and serves until 10PM or later, a little later on Fridays and Saturdays. Book dinner by phone, and get off the U3 at Borgweg station.
📍 Borgweg 11, 22303 Hamburg | Winterhude | ☎️ +49 40 27880368 | 🌐 bodhihamburg.de | 📸 @bodhi.hamburg
4. Café Nasch: A Collective-Run Café in the Gängeviertel Vegetarian
Come on a weekday after 12PM for the daily lunch dish, which has ranged from lentil and coconut curry to soy goulash and bean quesadillas. On weekends the big breakfast is the order, generous enough that people share it. The quiche, the panini and the cookies all have loyal fans, and the cakes change constantly.
Nasch is run by a collective in the Gängeviertel, a cluster of 19th-century alley houses that artists occupied in 2009 to save them from demolition. All the food is vegan and oat milk is the default, though cow’s milk is available for coffee on request. It is small, cosy and slightly eccentric, with free drinking water.
💡 Tip: Open weekdays 8:30AM to 6PM and weekends 9:30AM to 6PM, with the lunch dish from 12PM on weekdays. Gänsemarkt station on the U2 is a few minutes’ walk away.
📍 Caffamacherreihe 49, 20355 Hamburg | Neustadt | ☎️ +49 40 35581185 | 📸 @cafenasch
5. Vincent: Smash Burgers and Nuggets by the Hauptbahnhof Vegan
Order a cheeseburger or a smash burger with fries, then add the nuggets, which get more mentions in recent reviews than anything else on the menu. The vegan currywurst (sliced sausage in curry ketchup) and the kebab fries are close behind. Finish with an Oreo milkshake for the full fast-food hit, and know that dipping sauces cost extra.
Vincent started in Hamburg and now has branches in Berlin, Leipzig, Bremen and Munich, so this is home turf. This one sits just outside the Hauptbahnhof (main station) at the Steintorwall entrance, up a flight of stairs, and service stays fast even on a busy Saturday. It is the easiest good meal before a train.
💡 Tip: Open Monday to Thursday 10:30AM to 9PM, Friday until 9:30PM, and weekends 11AM to 9:30PM. Look for the stairs on the Steintorwall side, outside the station building.
📍 Steintorwall 20, 20095 Hamburg | Altstadt | ☎️ +49 40 30086531 | 🌐 eatvincent.com | 📸 @eatvincent
6. iNNERLUCK: Homemade Plates at a Tennis Club in Eimsbüttel Vegan
The menu changes every month, so order whatever soup is on, since one recent diner rated it well above average. Pancakes, burger plates, gluten-free bowls and homemade lemonades are regular features, and the Torten (layered German cream cakes) are the thing to save room for. One reviewer who has eaten at a lot of veggie restaurants calls this a favourite.
iNNERLUCK has cooked everything in-house since 2017, and in January 2024 it moved into the clubhouse of the Grün Weiß Eimsbüttel tennis club on Hagenbeckstraße. There is a terrace for warm evenings, the owner gets glowing mentions for her humour, and a vegan brunch runs on Sundays for those who book ahead.
💡 Tip: It opens Monday to Thursday only, 4PM to 9PM, and takes cards only. Reserve by phone or WhatsApp, and ride the U2 to Hagenbecks Tierpark station.
📍 Hagenbeckstraße 132, 22527 Hamburg | Eimsbüttel | ☎️ +49 173 4763202 | 🌐 innerluck.de | 📸 @innerluck_hamburg
7. Cài Kitchen: Numbing Sichuan Small Plates in the Karoviertel Vegan
Order the dan dan noodles (Sichuan noodles with chilli oil, sesame and Sichuan pepper) and a plate of dumplings, the two dishes regulars rave about most. The silken tofu and yuba (tofu skin) soup in sour chilli sauce is the pick for anyone who likes heat with tang. The udon dishes and small snacks round out a table nicely.
Cài is a small Imbiss (a casual counter-service eatery) on Glashüttenstraße that cooks classic Sichuan dishes without any animal products, working with local producers where it can. Plates come as small courses, so two people can cover a lot of the menu. Sichuan pepper brings a tingling, slightly numbing buzz, and the kitchen does not hold back.
💡 Tip: Open Monday to Friday, 12PM to 3PM and 5PM to 8PM. Ring before planning a weekend visit, and bring cash, because bills under €15 cannot go on a card.
📍 Glashüttenstraße 85a, 20357 Hamburg | Karolinenviertel | ☎️ +49 40 30926561 | 🌐 caikitchen.de | 📸 @caikitchenhh
8. Kjeks: Cupcakes, Brownies and Bienenstich in the Schanze Vegan
Get a cupcake and a brownie, the two treats regulars praise most, plus a slice of Bienenstich (bee sting cake, a yeast cake filled with custard under a caramelised almond crust). The triple chocolate and nougat cookies win fans too, and the strawberry white chocolate donut is very sweet and very popular. There is soft serve as well.
Kjeks makes everything by hand in Hamburg and is 100% vegan, with a few gluten-free bakes on the counter. The Schanze shop is small and cute, and staff happily talk people through the options when choosing gets hard, which it will. It is the right stop for coffee and a sugar hit between meals.
💡 Tip: The Schanze shop opens daily from 11AM to 8PM, and a second Kjeks in Hamm closes at 7PM. Order ahead on the website if you want a mixed box for a group.
📍 Schanzenstraße 79, 20357 Hamburg | Sternschanze | 🌐 kjeks.de | 📸 @kjeks.hh
9. Röllchen: Rolled Ice Cream for a Late Schanze Dessert Vegan
Pick your flavours and toppings and watch them get rolled: a liquid base is poured onto a frozen plate, chopped, spread thin and scraped into curls. Strawberry is the most talked-about flavour, one visitor swears by mango, blueberry and mint together, and the toppings list is long. Another called it the best rolled ice cream they had ever eaten.
Röllchen is an all-vegan ice cream counter on Juliusstraße, a few steps from the bars of the Schanzenviertel, the lively quarter around Sternschanze station. It stays open late, which makes it the natural last stop of a Schanze evening, and children love standing at the counter watching the rolls take shape on the cold plate.
💡 Tip: Hours run from around 12PM to 10PM, until 11PM on Fridays and Saturdays. Afternoon opening times move about, so check their Instagram before a daytime visit.
📍 Juliusstraße 33, 22769 Hamburg | Sternschanze | 📸 @roellchenicecream
Red Brick, Rooftops and the Elbe
Hamburg’s look comes from dark red brick. The Speicherstadt, the warehouse district built on oak piles from 1883, and the neighbouring Kontorhaus office quarter with the ship-shaped Chilehaus became a UNESCO World Heritage Site together in 2015. Walk it at dusk, when the canals catch the lights and the bridges between the warehouses empty out.
The Elbphilharmonie, the concert hall built on top of an old quay warehouse in HafenCity, has a public Plaza at 37 metres with a wraparound view of the harbour and the Elbe river. Back in St. Pauli, the Bunker on Feldstraße now carries a rooftop garden, and Happenpappen is directly across the street for lunch afterwards.
Vegan Hamburg: What to Know Before You Go
- Plan around closing days: Happenpappen closes Mondays, The Vegan Eagle Sundays and Mondays, iNNERLUCK Friday to Sunday, and Cài Kitchen opens on weekdays. Book The Vegan Eagle, iNNERLUCK and dinner at Bodhi ahead.
- Carry both cash and a card. Cài Kitchen wants cash for small bills, while iNNERLUCK takes cards only.
- Most German shops and supermarkets close on Sundays, so buy snacks and train food on Saturday. The shops inside the Hauptbahnhof stay open.
- One HVV ticket covers the U-Bahn, S-Bahn, buses and the HADAG harbour ferries. Ferry line 62 from Landungsbrücken (the old landing stages) to Finkenwerder doubles as a harbour tour on a normal ticket.
- Hamburg’s classics, the Fischbrötchen (fish roll sold at the harbour) and Labskaus (corned beef hash with beetroot), are meat and fish dishes. The Franzbrötchen, Hamburg’s flattened cinnamon pastry, is usually made with butter in ordinary bakeries.
- On menus, vegan means fully plant-based and vegetarisch means dairy and eggs may appear. Hafermilch is oat milk.
- Hamburg pairs well with a bigger German trip. Vegan Berlin is under two hours away by train, and vegan Munich is a longer ride south.
When to Visit Hamburg
Hamburg is mild and often grey, with rain in every season, so pack a waterproof whatever the month. May to September is the best time for this list, when The Vegan Eagle’s garden and the café terraces open up and people picnic around the Alster, the lake in the middle of the city. The Hafengeburtstag, the harbour’s birthday festival, fills the waterfront every May.
Late November to Christmas brings the Weihnachtsmärkte (Christmas markets) on the Rathausmarkt and across the city, with mulled wine and roasted almonds. Winter evenings are short and damp, which makes a bowl of dan dan noodles at Cài Kitchen feel exactly right.
Vegan Hamburg FAQ
Is Hamburg good for vegans?
Yes. Hamburg has fully vegan places for every meal, from all-day brunch at Happenpappen to Sichuan noodles at Cài Kitchen and late rolled ice cream at Röllchen.
What is the best vegan restaurant in Hamburg?
For dinner, book The Vegan Eagle in Langenhorn or Bodhi in Winterhude. For a casual lunch near the centre, Happenpappen in St. Pauli is the pick.
Where can I eat vegan near Hamburg Hauptbahnhof?
Vincent sits just outside the main station on Steintorwall, serving vegan smash burgers, nuggets and currywurst from 10:30AM on weekdays and 11AM on weekends.
Which Hamburg neighbourhood is best for vegan food?
The Schanze and neighbouring St. Pauli. Happenpappen, Cài Kitchen, Kjeks and Röllchen are all within walking distance of each other.
Where can I get vegan cake in Hamburg?
Kjeks is 100% vegan and known for cupcakes, brownies and Bienenstich. Café Nasch bakes vegan cakes and cookies, though it offers cow’s milk for coffee on request.
Which vegan restaurants in Hamburg are open on Sundays?
Happenpappen, Bodhi, Café Nasch, Vincent, Kjeks and Röllchen open on Sundays. The Vegan Eagle, iNNERLUCK and Cài Kitchen are closed.
Do I need to book vegan restaurants in Hamburg?
Yes for The Vegan Eagle, which has limited tables, and for iNNERLUCK by phone or WhatsApp. Book dinner at Bodhi too. The cafés and dessert spots are walk-in.