Best Vegan Restaurants in Sydney

Vegan food is having a moment in Sydney. If we're talking about the higher end of dining, there's never been a better time to go animal-products free. In 2018 we got two sharp, almost-fine-dining restaurants that just happen to be plant-based: Paperbark and Alibi. Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt, meanwhile, have begun offering vegan menus at Yellow, their lauded vegetarian restaurant.

And we still have affordable options spanning pizza, burgers, sushi, pho, gelato and pub classics. Some of our picks aren't 100 per cent vegan, but all offer a substantial selection of animal-product-free dishes.

Paperbark

A plant-based diner from the teams behind Alfie’s Kitchen and Verd, with a menu mixing cuisines, peppered with native Australian ingredients.

8/18 Danks Street
Waterloo NSW 2017

Book a Table

Alibi

The Ovolo Hotel's in-house restaurant was set up with help from renowned chef Mathew Kenney, who's been instrumental in popularising vegan food in the United States. Expect everything from margherita pizza with cashew cheese to kimchi dumplings in coconut-and-spinach wrappers.

Ground Floor, Ovolo Hotel, 6 Cowper Street Wharfway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011

Book a Table

Yellow

Sydney's first fine-dining restaurant devoted to plants also offers five- and seven-course set vegan menus with matched wines.

57 Macleay Street
Potts Point NSW 2011

Bad Hombres

Supposedly, this restaurant from Sean McManus and Toby Wilson is a pop-up. But Wilson's credible interpretation of traditional Mexican food has proven so popular, it doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon.

40 Reservoir Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

Book a Table

The Gantry

Artful, surprising degustations by the water, and if you pick the vegan option, it's without a single animal product on the plate.

11 Hickson Road
Sydney NSW 2000

Book a Table

Longrain

It's long been at the forefront of contemporary Thai dining, and now it has a separate vegan menu.

85 Commonwealth Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

Book a Table

Bodhi

A Sydney Taoist vegan institution serving yum cha and a big menu of dishes to share.

2-4 College Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Gigi's Pizzeria

This pizzeria was well respected and established before it went full vegan in 2015. Step in for classic Neapolitan pizzas made with nut-based cheeses.

379 Kings Street
Newtown NSW 2042

Mark + Vinny's

A colourful vegan-friendly pasta and spritz bar.

52 Waterloo Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

Little Turtle

An all-vegan Thai restaurant with “fish” curry and a special take on “Buffalo wings”.

10-14 Stanmore Road
Enmore NSW 2042

Otto Ristorante

Most diners just know this as the place to eat refined Italian food in the sun, but the kitchen also offers six-course vegan and vegetarian tasting menus, complete with matched wines.

Area 8 6 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW