The best vegan restaurants in London at their most ambitious, from tasting-menu tables to the casual spots worth the queue.
Best Vegan Restaurants in London: The Plant-Based Tables Worth Booking
Beyond the Health-Food Café Stereotype
London’s plant-based dining scene has moved well beyond the health-food café stereotype — the city now has fine-dining tasting menus built entirely around vegetables, alongside celebrated casual spots that draw queues regardless of anyone’s dietary preference.
Fine Dining, Not Just Substitution
The best plant-based restaurants in London don’t simply remove meat from a conventional menu; they build dishes around vegetables, grains and pulses as the primary ingredient, often with techniques — fermentation, smoking, dry-ageing vegetables the way a kitchen would age beef — developed specifically for the format. Several have earned recognition in the same guides that rate the city’s conventional fine dining, which is worth knowing if the goal is a genuinely serious meal rather than simply “somewhere vegan will work.”
Where to Start
The fine-dining end
- Plates, Old Street — the first vegan restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star, in 2025, less than six months after opening. Kirk Haworth’s tasting menu treats vegetables, nuts and ferments with classical technique rather than substitution
- Gauthier Soho, Romilly Street — Alexis Gauthier has held a star since 2011, went vegan himself in 2016 and turned the restaurant fully plant-based in 2021. The eight-course Grand Diner is the full version of the argument
Everything else
- Mildreds, Soho — open since 1988, which makes it older than most of the movement it now belongs to, and still the reliable answer for a weekday dinner
- Farmacy, Westbourne Grove — founded in 2016 by Camilla Fayed and supplied by its own biodynamic farm, so the menu moves with what the farm is actually producing
- Bubala — Spitalfields, Soho and King’s Cross. Vegetarian rather than strictly vegan, Middle Eastern, and the easiest room on this list to bring a mixed group to
That last distinction is worth holding onto. Fully vegan and vegetarian-with-vegan-options are different propositions, and for a table where only one guest is plant-based, the second usually makes for a better evening than the first.
Booking for Mixed Groups
One of the most common requests we handle is a table for a group with mixed dietary needs — one vegan guest among several who aren’t. London’s best plant-based restaurants tend to be confident enough in their cooking that this is rarely an issue, but the more celebrated venues still book out quickly on weekend evenings regardless of anyone’s diet.
How We Help
- Securing tables at London’s most in-demand plant-based restaurants
- Advising on venues suited to mixed-diet groups, not just committed vegans
- Booking ahead of weekend evenings when the best-known spots sell out
- Managing further dietary requirements — allergens, specific restrictions — ahead of arrival
- Arranging private dining for larger celebrations with plant-based menus
Book It With Perfect.Live
The hardest part of an evening like this is rarely choosing where to go — it’s getting the table. Our concierge team holds standing relationships with venues that don’t take public reservations, and can usually secure one with far less notice than booking direct.
More Dining Guides in London
Entertaining a broader group? See our guides to private dining rooms and romantic restaurants in the city.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, generally — most of the city’s most celebrated plant-based restaurants are chosen for the quality of the cooking itself, and regularly host mixed-diet groups without issue.
Yes. Plates in Old Street became the first vegan restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star, and others appear in the Michelin Guide’s Great Britain & Ireland selection, including Green Star recognition for sustainable practice.
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