Vegan Marseille

Greek sailors from Phocaea founded Marseille as Massalia around 600 BC, and the city has been feeding arrivals from every corner of the Mediterranean ever since. You taste that history in its plant-based food: Lebanese mezze in Le Panier, Greek falafel near the Cinq-Avenues, Brazilian tapioca crêpes on the docks and some of the best vegan pastry in France.

The places below are spread from the Vieux-Port (Old Port) up to Cours Julien, the graffiti-covered square at the heart of the 6th arrondissement, and most are walkable from one another. Many close on Mondays or Tuesdays and stop serving lunch around 2PM, so plan the day around them. For more cities, browse all the Your Vegan Passport destinations.

Vegan Marseille at a Glance

• Best for a long dinner with mezze: Hododa
• Best lunch near the Old Port: Mauvaise Herbe
• Best evening on a terrace: Mariposas
• Best comfort food and cake: John Silver Original Bistroffee
• Best pastries and breakfast: Oh Faon!
• Best Greek feast: C’est Bon
• Best weekday lunch on the docks: Racines do Brasil
• Best stop before a train: Café l’Écomotive

Best Vegan Restaurants in Marseille

1. Hododa: Lebanese and Armenian Mezze in Le Panier Vegan

Diners at Hododa keep coming back to the muhammara, a smoky red pepper and walnut dip, and to the falafel with tahini sauce, served in generous portions. The menu leans Lebanese and Armenian, built for sharing. Order the chich taouk plate, a vegan take on the Lebanese marinated skewer, and the flan libanais, a set Lebanese pudding.

Save room for the lemon tart, which turns up again and again in reviews, or come for the weekend brunch plate. The restaurant sits on a narrow street in Le Panier, the oldest neighbourhood in Marseille, with a few tables outside. Lunch runs Wednesday to Friday, dinner Wednesday to Saturday, and brunch on weekends from 11AM. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

💡 Tip: Book dinner online, especially on Fridays and Saturdays, because the last orders go in around 9:15PM.

📍 15 Rue de l’Évêché, 13002 Marseille | Le Panier | ☎️ +33 4 91 31 09 63 | 🌐 hododa.com | 📸 @hododa_marseille

2. Mauvaise Herbe: Seasonal Bistro Plates Steps From the Old Port Vegan

Mauvaise herbe means weed, and this all-plant bistro cooks like it grew up in a Provençal market. Reviewers rave about the potato mille-feuille, the house-made vegan mozzarella and the salted caramel cheesecake, which is the chef’s favourite dessert and rarely leaves the menu. Order the set lunch of starter, main and dessert, which comes in under €30.

Start with the focaccia or the courgette tempura, and look out for the strawberry pavlova when it is on. Produce arrives from local growers each morning, oyster mushrooms included. The terrace on Rue Haxo fills quickly. It opens from about 9AM to 5PM, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with brunch on weekends.

💡 Tip: Book a terrace table for weekend brunch, and come before 12:30PM on weekdays to get the set lunch before the best dishes sell out.

📍 6 Rue Haxo, 13001 Marseille | Vieux-Port | ☎️ +33 4 91 11 97 09 | 🌐 mauvaise-herbe-bistrot.fr | 📸 @mauvaise_herbe_bistrot

3. Mariposas: Dinner on the Terrace at Cours Julien Vegan

Mariposas, Spanish for butterflies, runs a short menu of two or three starters and three mains that changes with the season. Recent diners loved the aubergine served in a fragrant broth, the butternut squash soup and the falafels. Order the petit gâteau, a molten chocolate cake, or the lemon tart, because the desserts get as much praise as the mains.

The cheesecake is the other dessert people photograph. The restaurant opens onto the terrace of Cours Julien, so on a warm night you eat outside with the whole neighbourhood strolling past. Dinner runs every night from 7PM, with lunch from 12PM Friday to Sunday. The menu is small and the portions are modest, so plan on a starter and a dessert.

💡 Tip: Book for Friday and Saturday nights, because walk-ins are asked to wait when the terrace is full.

📍 102 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille | Cours Julien | ☎️ +33 6 26 55 61 92 | 📸 @mariposas.vegetal

4. John Silver Original Bistroffee: Kebabs, Lamingtons and House-Made Everything Vegan

John Silver makes vegan versions of comfort food and makes them well. Regulars order the kebab and the assiette signature, the house plate, and one reviewer compared the ciabatta raclette with pickles to a grilled cheese Reuben. Everything is made in-house, down to the focaccia and the ricotta, and the couscous royal comes with spiced vegetables and a plant-based merguez sausage.

Finish with a lamington, an Australian sponge cake coated in coconut, which comes in flavours like pistachio and almond or pumpkin spice. The bistroffee, a bistro crossed with a coffee shop, opened in June 2025 behind the Old Port in the 7th arrondissement and seats only a handful of people. It serves lunch Tuesday to Saturday from 12PM to 4PM.

💡 Tip: Check the Instagram account before you go, because the opening days change and the kitchen sometimes closes for a break.

📍 6 Rue Neuve Sainte-Catherine, 13007 Marseille | 7th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 4 86 68 29 59 | 📸 @johnsilver.ob

5. Oh Faon!: Vegan Viennoiseries Worth Crossing Town For Vegan

Oh Faon! is a fully plant-based pâtisserie, and the pain au chocolat is the reason most people walk in. Reviewers also single out the pain suisse, a flat pastry filled with custard and chocolate chips. Order the diablotins if they are on the counter, because reviewers call them out of this world, and add a slice of marble cake.

The glass cabinet holds plated cakes such as Balade en Garrigue, named for the scrubby Provençal hills, and the Pécan Bueno, plus a lemon tart and seasonal fruit desserts. Pair them with a hojicha latte, made from roasted Japanese green tea. There are gluten-free cookies too. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 8:30AM to 7PM and Sunday from 10AM to 5PM.

💡 Tip: Go before 10AM on weekends, because the pains au chocolat sell out first.

📍 6 Rue Edmond Rostand, 13006 Marseille | Préfecture | ☎️ +33 4 91 58 74 82 | 🌐 ohfaon.com | 📸 @oh_faon

6. C’est Bon: Greek Mezze, Falafel and Pistachio Ice Cream Vegetarian

C’est Bon cooks vegetarian Greek food, and the falafel gets more praise than anything else on the menu, with one reviewer calling it absolutely amazing. Order a spread of mezze, the small Greek sharing plates, then finish with the tahini mousse or the pistachio ice cream. The spinach pie, spanakopita, and the homemade lemonade are both popular choices too.

Feta, yoghurt and eggs appear in several dishes, including the shakshuka, eggs poached in spiced tomato sauce, so ask which plates are vegan when you order. The restaurant sits near the Cinq-Avenues in the 4th arrondissement, close to the Palais Longchamp. It serves dinner every night except Friday and lunch from Sunday to Thursday. Closed all day Friday.

💡 Tip: Order the mezze platter for two and add an extra portion of falafel, because the falafel goes first.

📍 11 Avenue du Maréchal Foch, 13004 Marseille | Cinq-Avenues | 📸 @cestbon.marseille

7. Racines do Brasil: Tapioca Crêpes at Les Docks Vegetarian

Racines, French for roots, is run by two Brazilian vegetarian chefs, and the dish everyone talks about is the tapioca. That is a chewy Brazilian crêpe made from cassava starch, folded around a generous filling. Reviewers call the plates fresh, filling and never greasy. Order the tapioca of the day and one of the vegetable bowls with grains and legumes.

Eggs and cheese appear in most dishes, so ask for the vegan option of the week, and the kitchen adapts a plate when none is listed. The counter sits inside Les Docks Village, a restored 19th-century warehouse in La Joliette, by the ferry port. It serves lunch only, Monday to Friday from 12PM to 2PM, to eat in or take away.

💡 Tip: Combine lunch here with a walk to the MuCEM, the museum of Mediterranean civilisations, about 15 minutes away along the waterfront.

📍 Les Docks Village, 20 Quai du Lazaret, 13002 Marseille | La Joliette | ☎️ +33 7 49 59 97 72 | 📸 @racinesdobrasil

8. Café l’Écomotive: Organic Canteen at the Foot of Saint-Charles Vegetarian

Café l’Écomotive is a vegetarian, organic canteen with a daily plat du jour, the dish of the day, and there is usually a vegan version. Recent diners praised the carrot soup, the cold gazpacho in summer and the spirulina chia pudding. One reviewer still remembered the coconut rice with vegetables. Order the plat du jour with a slice of vegan cake.

The savoury tarts and salads often contain eggs, cheese or feta, so check the board. It sits at the bottom of the grand staircase below Saint-Charles station, the easiest proper meal before a train. You can also buy a café suspendu, a coffee paid forward for a stranger. Open daily from 8:30AM, 9:30AM on weekends, until 6PM.

💡 Tip: Arrive by 12PM for the plat du jour, because the lunch rush from the station clears it out fast.

📍 2 Place des Marseillaises, 13001 Marseille | Saint-Charles | 📸 @cafelecomotive

Massalia: The Greek City Under the Port

Marseille is the oldest city in France, and you can still see where it started. Behind the Centre Bourse shopping centre, the Jardin des Vestiges (garden of remains) shows the stone quays of the ancient Greek harbour, uncovered by builders in 1967. The Musée d’Histoire de Marseille next door displays a Roman-era merchant ship found nearby.

The Greeks settled first on the hill that is now Le Panier, which is why the oldest streets climb so steeply above the Vieux-Port. Walk up from the Old Port to the Vieille Charité, a 17th-century almshouse built around a domed chapel, then down to Hododa for dinner. The whole loop takes about an hour on foot.

Vegan Marseille: What to Know Before You Go

• The famous local dishes are bouillabaisse, a saffron fish stew, and aïoli, a garlic mayonnaise served with salt cod, so neither works for vegans. Try panisses instead, fried strips of chickpea-flour batter sold as street food, and ask whether they were fried in shared oil.
• In France, “végétal” means plant-based and “végétalien” means vegan, while “végétarien” allows dairy and eggs. “Vegan” is understood everywhere in Marseille.
• Many kitchens close between 2PM and 7PM, and several restaurants on this list close on Mondays, Tuesdays or Fridays. Plan lunch before 1:30PM.
• Book Hododa, Mariposas and Mauvaise Herbe ahead for weekends. Most take online reservations.
• The metro and tram link Saint-Charles, the Old Port, Castellane and La Joliette. Le Panier and Cours Julien both sit on steep hills, so wear flat shoes.
• Small independent places sometimes close for a week or two in August. Check their Instagram before you cross town.

When to Visit Marseille

May, June and September are the sweet spot, with warm sea temperatures, long terrace evenings and fewer cruise passengers in the Old Port. July and August bring heat above 30°C and heavy crowds at the calanques, the limestone inlets east of the city, some of which need a free advance reservation in summer.

Winter is mild and quiet, and restaurant terraces stay open on sunny afternoons. The mistral, a cold north wind that can blow for days, is strongest in winter and spring, so pack a windproof layer between November and April.

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