How To Find Vegan-Friendly Restaurants (Simple Tips That Work Anywhere)

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Vegan-friendly and plant-forward restaurants have popped up everywhere! From fast food to fine dining, restaurants have recognized that more and more people are seeking healthy vegan options.

If you find yourself in a restaurant with no visible vegan-friendly options on the menu, ask if the chef is up for creating something off-menu for you. Often, a chef will embrace the opportunity.

Below is a list of nationally known restaurants:

Vegan Mexican Cuisine

  • Chipotle’s
  • Freebirds World Burrito
  • Moe’s
  • Qdoba’s
  • Taco Bell

Vegan Cafés

  • Starbucks
  • Tropical Smoothie Café
  • Method Juice

Vegan Restaurants

  • Bareburger
  • Bennigan’s
  • Cascadia
  • Cheeburger Cheeburger
  • Denny’s
  • Green’s Restaurant
  • Indigenous Eats
  • Johnny Rockets
  • Kelsey’s
  • P.F. Chang’s
  • Red Robin
  • RUT Bar & Kitchen
  • Shari’s
  • The Cheesecake Factory
  • TGIF’s
  • Yard House

Vegan Pizza or Italian Cuisine

  • Blaze Pizza
  • Buca Di Beppo
  • Domino’s – Select locations
  • Mellow Mushroom Pizza
  • Mod Pizza
  • Olive Garden
  • Pizza Fusion
  • Z-Pizza

Vegan Pubs and Bars

  • Trinity Hall – Dallas
  • Wild Seed – San Francisco

Vegan Fast Food

  • A & W *
  • Burger King
  • Carl’s Jr.
  • Jack in the Box
  • McDonalds *
  • Zips

*Only select locations offer vegan options.

To help you find vegan-friendly restaurants in areas you might be less familiar with, downloading an app that locates vegan restaurants for you can be a real lifesaver. We recommend downloading Happy Cow, Vegan Friendly, or Vanilla Bean— which is available in the US, UK, and Germany.