58 vegan kitchens in East London.
Part of The Vegan Ledger, by neighbourhood. Every kitchen here gets the same three-voices check: what the business claims, what customers reveal in reviews — quoted, with receipts — and what only the owner can confirm.
How we verify
Every kitchen here is checked three ways: what the business claims in its own listing, what customers actually say in reviews (quoted, not paraphrased), and what only the owner can confirm — which we hold as an open question until they answer it themselves. We won’t list a “vegan” kitchen if reviews contradict the claim; that’s cost places their listing before.
Bethnal Green6 kitchens
VeganLove Shack
Fully vegan Bethnal Green railway-arch fixture with quirky decor, a hidden event room and cocktails — celebrated for mock-meat wings, burgers and crispy 'duck'.
VeganGallery Cafe
Charity-run vegetarian/vegan community café inside St Margaret's House, Bethnal Green — salad plates, vegan full English and pancakes in a calm, art-filled space that hosts exhibitions and events. A local institution: one reviewer has been coming for over ten years.
VeganSen Viet Vegan Restaurant
Family-run, fully plant-based Vietnamese restaurant on Kingsland Road's 'Pho Mile', beloved for its pho, lotus-leaf special fried rice and soft tofu dishes in a cozy room.
VeganSomewhere Green
Plant-filled vegan cafe and coffee shop on Roman Road, Bethnal Green (from the Sazzy & Fran family), loved for its vegan bakes — choc-chip banana bread, cinnamon buns, almond croissants — strong matcha, and a quiet downstairs room regulars treat as a reading-and-work refuge.
VeganPalm Greens - Shoreditch
Fully plant-based, couple-run cafe tucked inside The Sanctuary wellness space on Cheshire Street. Reviewers love the artistic, health-forward plates — green noodle salad, kale Caesar, tomato toast — as a post-sauna refuel, plus Thursday-night live jazz and cocktails.
VeganMandala Café Bethnal Green
A wholesome all-vegan brunch café and community space on Globe Road, run by the neighbouring London Buddhist Centre — customers come for the Full Mandala Brunch, good coffee and a calm, welcoming atmosphere, and the café also hosts hands-on workshops like kimchi-making.
Bow3 kitchens
VeganE3 Vegan
Vegetable-focused fine-dining vegan in Bow with an often-changing menu, back garden and celebrated Sunday roast; deliberately avoids mock meats.
VeganJungle Electric
All-vegan community cafe, coffee shop and event space on Roman Road, Bow — cult-loved toasties, mac and cheese and white hot chocolate at notably fair prices, with a second-hand shop, board games and a snug downstairs.
VegetarianChowpatty - Authentic Indian Street Food (Mile End)
A pure-vegetarian Mumbai street-food kitchen operating from a Mile End kitchen pod, praised by homesick Mumbaikars for authentic vada pav, sev puri and dabeli delivered in leak-proof packaging — and increasingly used for Diwali and party catering with proactive day-of communication.
Clapton2 kitchens
VeganBlack Cat café
Bohemian, volunteer-run fully vegan community cafe on Clarence Road, Lower Clapton (4.7, 935 reviews) — budget-priced big breakfasts and Welsh rarebit by day, plus creative supper-club dinners like roasted cabbage with vanilla miso.
VeganBean’s Café
Fully vegan daytime brunch cafe in Lower Clapton (4.9 over 169 reviews) whose scrambled-tofu 'Bean's Breakfast' full English and mushroom-and-leek toasties earn near-perfect reviews; friendly, dog-welcoming, with a rotating menu of pastries and cakes.
East Ham1 kitchen
Forest Gate4 kitchens
VegetarianShinde's Pure Veg
Busy pure-veg Maharashtrian/pan-Indian restaurant on Green Street (sister branch in East Ham); praised for generous thalis, paneer bhurji and named-staff service, with recurring gripes about spice-level requests and temperature consistency.
VegetarianVijay's Chawalla
Green Street's pink-fronted vegetarian institution for Gujarati/Mumbai street food — bhel puri, chole bhature, pav bhaji and day-specials like halwa puri — family-friendly and calm, though dosa quality and the basic room divide opinion (3.8★ overall).
VegetarianMona Food Chaat House
Owner-run Gujarati chaat house on Green Street ('Mona aunty'), budget prices, open 8am–11pm daily; customers describe family-like warmth, samples offered before you buy, and standout bhel puri.
VegetarianRonak
Gujarati-Punjabi vegetarian stalwart on Romford Road trading since the mid-1970s; unpolished takeaway-style room but loved for huge cheap portions and deeply personal event catering (Nileshbhai).
Hackney & Dalston9 kitchens
VeganThe Spread Eagle
Homerton pub billed as London's first fully vegan pub — a proper local with a seasonal plant-based menu, strong keg beer range, pool room and beer garden.
VeganAndu Ethiopian Vegan Café
Vegan-only Ethiopian cafe on Kingsland Road with huge, cheap injera sharing platters, BYO alcohol and cash-only; chilled but service can be uneven.
VeganWAVE
WAVE (We Are Vegan Everything) is an industrial-chic, fully vegan cafe in central Hackney known for brunch, harissa skewers, inventive coffees like peanut butter and salted coffee, and a laptop-friendly, genuinely allergy-aware welcome.
VeganTemple of Seitan
Hackney's pioneering vegan fast-food counter on Morning Lane, famous for seitan 'chicken' — Buffalo and Korean BBQ wings with mac and cheese — served fast and friendly until 11pm every day.
VegetarianAYA & SUKI
Cosy vegetarian/vegan sharing-plates restaurant on Broadway Market (4.8, 369 reviews) known for okra fries, falafel and a 'massive' feasting menu that makes it a go-to for group celebrations like hen dos.
VeganFacing Heaven
Plant-based Sichuan restaurant and cocktail bar in Hackney, E8 (from the Mao Chow team), open evenings only — punchy umami noodles and scallion pancakes in a fun 80s-styled room. Reviews split on service speed, and strict vegans flag that the kitchen is shared with meat-serving sister site Easy 8.
VeganThird Culture Deli
A fully vegan deli-café on Broadway Market doing a few signature plant-based dishes exceptionally well — tofu-scramble breakfast buns, loaded Italian and Korean sandwiches, house vegan cheeses (the black truffle is a cult item), tiramisu and speciality coffee with Sproud pea milk — plus a small take-home grocery shelf.
VeganEssential Vegan Cafe
Fully vegan cafe in Hackney Wick's All My Friends complex (record shop + bar, riverside) for specialty coffee, cakes and seitan-bacon brunch; dog-friendly.
Natural Flavour
Tiny chef-run plant-based spot on Gillett Square in Dalston, open Tuesday to Friday evenings. Its handful of reviews are all five stars, praising flavour-packed food made from short, simple ingredient lists — the banana smoothies get named repeatedly.
Hackney Wick2 kitchens
VeganEthical Bean Company Coffee Shop
Fully vegan coffee shop on Fish Island, E3, with a rare 5.0 rating across 4,700+ reviews — vegan breakfasts, sourdough bagels, wraps, smoothies and a big counter of house sweet treats, served by staff customers name-check in reviews.
VeganWrap n Rolla
Wrap n Rolla is a couple-run, fully vegan wrap kitchen in Stratford's Echo Building, loved for seitan jerk 'chicken' wraps and loaded fries — convincing enough that reviewers rarely mention it's plant-based and one couple booked it to cater their wedding.
Leyton1 kitchen
Manor Park2 kitchens
VegetarianTaste of India Pure Vegetarian LTD
High-volume independent pure-veg restaurant on High Street North (3,800+ reviews) spanning South Indian, North Indian and Indo-Chinese, with tiffin and spice customisation; food consistently rated above the occasionally brusque counter service.
VegetarianShinde's Pure Veg East Ham
The East Ham branch of Shinde's Pure Veg, distinguished by authentic Mumbai street food — reviewers call the vada pav 'the real deal' — plus careful kids'-spice handling and group-friendly service from named staff.
Shoreditch4 kitchens
VeganMukBap - Korean Vegan
Tiny fully-vegan Korean restaurant behind Liverpool Street; whole menu is plant-based, with warm personal service and a loyal following.
VeganPlates Restaurant & Food Studio
Landmark plant-based fine-dining restaurant on Old Street — the UK's first Michelin-starred vegan kitchen — serving a continually changing 12-course chef's table tasting menu with wine pairings. Reviewers describe once-in-a-lifetime cooking and a warm, occasion-worthy welcome that converts committed omnivores.
VegetarianOliveira Kitchen
Cosy basement fine-dining room on Paul Street, Shoreditch, serving an elevated biodynamic plant-based menu that pairs seasonal local produce with Amazonian ingredients. Reviewers rave about the tasting menus and vegan desserts; the recurring gripe is slow pacing on busy nights and big bookings.
VeganPLANT SHACK Shoreditch
All-day plant-based cafe and juice shop on Great Eastern Street doing vegan brunch, pastries, bowls and fresh cold-pressed juices from 8am. Reviewers call it a calm, spacious oasis in busy Shoreditch, with standout vegan bakes, though a few flag small portions for the price.
Spitalfields & Brick Lane11 kitchens
VeganUnity Diner
All-vegan non-profit American-style diner near Spitalfields — comfort food (tofish and chips, doner, Sunday carvery) run on a charitable ethos, with a bar.
Vegetarian1947 Restaurant, Bar & Pizza Kitchen
Intimate bi-level vegetarian/vegan Indian restaurant on Middlesex Street (with a pizza-and-pasta side menu) rated 4.7 across 2,870 reviews. Customers — vegans and non-vegans alike — single out its plant-based chicken tikka masala and warmly attentive, known-by-name hosts.
VeganTofu vegan Spitalfields
Flagship fully vegan Chinese restaurant on Commercial Street (4.9 from 2,777 reviews) doing dumplings, dim sum, mapo tofu and mock-meat classics at generous portions with unlimited rice refills; service by named regulars Vincent and Jenny draws as much praise as the food. Packed at dinner, easier mid-day.
VeganVegan Yes
All-vegan Italian–Korean fusion cafe on Brick Lane, chef-owner led, with a build-your-own kimchi bar.
VegetarianBubala Spitalfields
An entirely meat-free Middle Eastern restaurant in Spitalfields built around creative sharing plates — reviewers return again and again to the confit potatoes and halloumi with black seed honey — with warm, well-paced service that makes it a go-to for celebrations and group dinners.
VeganDauns
Fully vegan Scandinavian café-deli near Petticoat Lane, E1, doing Swedish-style brunch — toasties on sourdough, tofu scramble, kanelbullar and Swedish meatballs. Customers rate it near-perfect (4.9 from 827 reviews) but the small room fills fast at weekends.
VeganGecko Coffeehouse
Plant-based coffeehouse and brunch spot on Bethnal Green Road, loved for its blueberry matcha pancakes and speciality coffee, with a cosy Bali-style downstairs that regulars use for studying.
VeganMerkamo Ethiopian
A dedicated vegan Ethiopian kitchen in Old Spitalfields Market (4.8 from 284 reviews), loved for flavour-packed, healthy platters of lentils, okra and dumplings — portions generous enough that regulars call it the best-value healthy option in the market, worth the occasionally slow queue.
VeganMerkamo Vegan
The all-vegan Ethiopian sister restaurant on Hanbury Street, serving injera platters, coconut dumplings and spiced tea that reviewers describe as 'presented as a work of art' — a cosy sit-down room (plus downstairs space) with warm service and prices consistently called great value.
VeganPlantXology
Fully vegan North Indian street-food stall trading weekends in Brick Lane's Backyard Market, loved for dosas, vada pav, pani puri and inventive tofu and mock-meat dishes at market prices. The vendor's warm, explanatory style wins converts, though reliability of trading days is a flagged risk.
VeganHoly Carrot Bistro Spitalfields
Fully plant-based fine-casual bistro on Brushfield Street from the Holy Carrot brand — technique-led vegetable cookery (mushroom wings and flatbread draw raves) with a serious cocktail list, though early reviews flag service teething and premium prices.
Stratford1 kitchen
Upton Park & Plaistow1 kitchen
Walthamstow10 kitchens
VegetarianBuhler and Co (Brunch/Lunch/Coffee shop)
A petite, convivial vegetarian brunch cafe and coffee shop in Walthamstow whose regulars rave about the Turkish eggs, chipotle butter beans and a case of homemade cakes (the gluten-free tahini halva brownie has a cult following) — dog-friendly, family-friendly and known for staff who make people feel at home.
Vegan-friendlySlowBurn London
Vegetable-led, health-conscious sharing-plates restaurant set inside a working craft-denim workshop on Blackhorse Lane — plant-forward but not meat-free (menu includes meat, mussels and dairy), weekend-only, with standout service across 500+ reviews at 4.7.
Vegan-friendlyThe Lacy Nook
A light-filled covered-deck restaurant tucked into Wood Street Studios, Walthamstow, serving a frequently-changing sharing-plates menu with substantial veggie/vegan options alongside meat dishes — booking strongly advised. Note: reviews confirm the kitchen is mixed (chorizo, feta, meat plates), not fully plant-based as the listing suggests.
VegetarianShri Lakshmi Foods
Family-run vegetarian Indian restaurant on Hoe Street, Walthamstow, best known for chaat and street-food starters like samosa chaat and bhel puri, with BYO alcohol; value opinions split sharply between 'absolute bargain' and 'small over-priced portions'.
VeganThe Hogless Roast
All-vegan 'hogless' hog-roast hatch in Walthamstow's CRATE market, famed for its plant-based roast, tater tots and burgers, and for catering weddings.
VeganPeeld Poke
Independent plant-based poke and smoothie kitchen in Walthamstow Village, doing Hawaiian-Korean bowls built around mock meats and tofu, house lemonades and matcha. Customers rate the fast, friendly counter service and healthy bowls, though a few find portions small for the price.
VeganPulse and Pickle CIC
Fully vegan community-interest cafe, grocer and event space in Walthamstow, serving hearty Middle-Eastern-influenced, gluten-free plant food from locally sourced organic produce — 5.0-rated and loved for its welcome as much as its cooking.
Vegan-friendlyVegan Tiffin Walthamstow
Evening-only vegan Indian curry takeaway on Wood Street, Walthamstow, built around tofu-based 'vegan paneer' dishes. Reviews flag that it shares operations with the Tandoori Nights brand — including one order where real dairy paneer was sent — and a possible change of hands around 2025.
Mr Vegan
An evening-hours restaurant on Forest Road, Walthamstow with a vegan name and a history of praise for cheap, plentiful vegan dishes — but its current vegan status is in doubt: the most recent review claims the menu is no longer vegan, so owner confirmation is essential before listing it as a vegan kitchen.
No Meat And Two Veg
Walthamstow's meat-free answer to the classic takeaway: vegan kebabs, hotdogs and pitta wraps on Forest Road. The few reviewers call it the best vegetarian/vegan fast food locally, with delivery that arrives hot.
