Vegan restaurants Liverpool searches have, over the past five years, gone from returning a handful of vegetarian cafes to listing dozens of properly considered plant-led restaurants. Liverpool is now genuinely strong on vegan and vegetarian dining — from the city’s oldest veggie cafe (The Egg, opened in the 1970s and still running off Bold Street) to fully plant-based fast food spots like Down the Hatch, dedicated wholefood cafes like The Vibe, and the Bold Street Indian restaurants where the vegetarian menu is the headline rather than the afterthought. This guide covers the best vegan restaurants Liverpool offers in 2026 alongside the vegetarian-friendly mainstream restaurants where plant-based diners eat well, with practical detail on pricing, location, and what to actually order.
What’s changed in Liverpool isn’t just the number of vegan restaurants — it’s the quality. Vegan junk food is properly handled at Down the Hatch; the Gujarati vegetarian menu at Bundobust holds its own against any Indian restaurant in the city; The Egg Cafe still serves the kind of wholesome cooking it pioneered fifty years ago. Beyond the dedicated vegan venues, almost every mainstream Liverpool restaurant now offers a serious vegan menu — Maray on Bold Street, Mowgli, The Art School, and most of the better Bold Street kitchens have dedicated plant-based offerings rather than the apologetic single dish that used to be standard. If you’re trip-planning as a vegan or vegetarian visitor, Liverpool is unusually accommodating.
Down the Hatch — Liverpool’s Vegan Junk Food Standout
Down the Hatch on Duke Street is the obvious starting point for any vegan tour of Liverpool. The kitchen is 100% plant-based and the format is unapologetic vegan junk food — burgers, loaded fries, dim sum, bao buns, plant-based fried chicken strips, vegan hot dogs, and the kind of cocktail menu that takes vegan drinking seriously (no honey, no isinglass, no animal-derived finings). The room is dark, the music is loud, and the food is genuinely good — better than most non-vegan equivalents in the same category, which is the standard vegan junk food has finally reached at the better venues.
Prices are sensible: burgers £12-15, loaded fries £8-10, sharing platters £18-22. The “pawn toast” dim sum and the bao buns are reliable orders. The cocktail list runs to about twenty options and most are properly made. Down the Hatch shares premises with Woo Tan Scran, a Chinese takeaway operating out of the same space, which gives you a second menu option if your group includes anyone who wants Chinese rather than vegan junk food. The combination works better than it sounds.
Booking is sensible for weekend evenings. The Duke Street location is two minutes from Duke Street Market and five from Bold Street, which makes Down the Hatch a credible end-of-walking-tour dinner stop. For groups of vegans and non-vegans, the dual-kitchen format works particularly well.
The Egg Cafe — Liverpool’s Oldest Vegetarian Institution
The Egg Cafe on Newington has been running since the 1970s and is the oldest vegetarian cafe in Liverpool. The format is unchanged in spirit — hand-painted walls, mismatched chairs, hot food counter, and a menu of vegetarian and vegan classics that lean wholesome rather than indulgent. Bean burgers, vegan Sunday roasts, vegetable curries, salads, hearty soups, and a daily-changing specials board. Plates run £8-14, sides £3-5, full meals £12-18 per person. Cash and card both accepted.
What makes The Egg work is the consistency. It’s been serving the same kind of cooking for fifty years and the cooking is still good. The Sunday lunch is a proper vegan/vegetarian Sunday roast at £14-16 — genuinely satisfying, with all the trimmings and properly made vegetarian gravy. The cafe sits hidden above a hardware shop, with a steep stair entrance that puts off some first-time visitors. It’s worth the climb. Walk-in only, with a usual 10-20 minute wait on weekend lunchtimes.
The Egg is the Liverpool vegan/vegetarian restaurant that feels least like a marketing exercise — no Instagram-optimised interior, no influencer events, no menu rebrands. It’s a cafe that quietly does the same thing brilliantly week after week, and the loyalty of its regulars across half a century is the evidence. Located five minutes from Bold Street.
The Vibe Cafe — Wholefood Plant-Based Cafe
The Vibe Cafe is a smaller, newer entrant to the Liverpool vegan scene and the cafe that most successfully translates the modern wholefood-cafe format from London or Berlin to a Liverpool setting. 100% plant-based menu, mostly daytime opening (breakfast and lunch service), and a focus on bowls, toasties, smoothies, and ingredient-led plates rather than vegan-junk-food translations. Plates £8-13, smoothies £5-7. The breakfast menu is the order of choice — overnight oats, avocado toast variants, and a properly handled vegan Buddha bowl.
The Vibe is the right pick for breakfast or lunch when you want plant-based food that’s healthy without being apologetic about it. The room is small, the atmosphere is calm, and the staff are knowledgeable about ingredients (useful for anyone with multiple dietary requirements). Walk-in works most of the time; the weekend brunch slot (10am-1pm) gets busier.
Bundobust — Liverpool’s Best Vegetarian Restaurant
Bundobust on Bold Street is the entirely vegetarian Indian street-food restaurant from the small Yorkshire-born chain — and it’s arguably the best vegetarian restaurant in Liverpool full stop. The menu is Gujarati street food: bhel puri, dosa, idli, vada pav, paneer dishes, and a strong dahl and curry section. Around 70% of the menu is vegan and clearly marked. Plates £4-9, full meal £20-28 per person. The room is large, the format is shared-plate casual, and the craft beer programme is unusually strong for an Indian restaurant — Bundobust runs its own brewery, with house-brewed beers alongside a rotating tap list.
The vada pav (Mumbai-style potato burger), the okra fries, the bhel puri, and the bundo chaat are the orders to anchor any meal. The dosa is also excellent. Bundobust is the right pick for a group of mixed vegan, vegetarian, and meat-eating diners — almost no one will miss the absence of meat, which is the surest sign of a vegetarian restaurant doing its job. Booking sensible at weekends.
Mowgli — Indian Street Food With a Serious Vegan Menu
Mowgli on Bold Street isn’t a vegan restaurant but it operates one of central Liverpool’s best vegan menus — Nisha Katona’s restaurant has built a full vegan menu mirroring the main one, with vegan tiffin boxes, vegan chaat, vegan curries, and properly handled vegan dahl. The format is the same shared-plate casual approach as Bundobust, with slightly higher pricing (£6-12 per plate). The flagship Bold Street restaurant is the original; a larger Mowgli on Water Street near the Town Hall offers the same menu in a smarter dining room.
The vegan tiffin (around £14) is one of the best vegan lunch deals in Liverpool — multiple courses of properly cooked Indian vegan food at a price that undercuts most equivalent meat menus. Mowgli is covered more fully in our Bold Street Liverpool food guide.
Maray — Levantine Sharing Plates With Strong Vegan Options
Maray on Bold Street isn’t a vegan restaurant either, but the Levantine sharing-plate format means a substantial portion of the menu is naturally vegan. The famous “disco cauliflower” (whole roasted, tahini, pomegranate, herbs) is vegan; the hummus, baba ghanoush, flatbreads, falafel, and most of the mezze are vegan or easily made so. A vegan group of four can eat a full Maray dinner — six or seven sharing plates with drinks — for around £35-40 per person, which is excellent value.
Maray works particularly well for mixed groups where some diners are vegan and others aren’t — the sharing-plate format means the vegan plates are part of the table rather than a separate menu, and the cooking quality is genuinely high. The Bold Street location is the flagship; a smaller second site sits in the Albert Dock area.
Other Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants Worth Knowing
Several smaller venues round out the Liverpool vegan and vegetarian scene. They don’t all warrant a full meal but they’re useful additions to a wider plant-based itinerary.
Roots
Roots is a smaller plant-based cafe and restaurant in the city centre running a tight menu of buddha bowls, vegan burgers, sweet treats, and properly-made coffee. Plates £8-14. Best for a daytime stop or a quick weeknight dinner.
Kindness Co-op
Kindness Co-op is a vegan-friendly cafe near the Anglican Cathedral with a strong breakfast and brunch menu, vegan baking, and good coffee. £6-12 per plate. The Sunday vegan brunch is particularly worth knowing.
Bear & Wolf
Bear & Wolf is a plant-based wholefood cafe with a focus on bowls, salads, and freshly-baked breads. Strong vegan breakfast offering. £7-13 per plate.
Hafla Hafla
Hafla Hafla is a Middle Eastern restaurant where the vegetarian and vegan menus are properly developed — falafel wraps, mezze plates, hummus bowls, and a strong sharing format. £6-15 per plate. A useful addition to the Bold Street area’s plant-based options.
Vegan Sushi at Wagamama and Yo! Sushi
The chain Japanese restaurants both run dedicated vegan menus that are properly developed — Wagamama’s vegan menu is unusually broad, and Yo! Sushi’s vegan rolls are decent if you want quick plant-based sushi. Useful fallback options when you’re shopping at Liverpool ONE.
Vegan Cafes and Coffee Shops
Beyond the sit-down restaurants, Liverpool has a growing number of cafes serving vegan-led breakfast and lunch food. Bold Street Coffee, Brew & Bake, Bean There, and most of the cafes covered in our best brunch Liverpool guide have substantial vegan options. The Vibe Cafe above is the most dedicated. For coffee enthusiasts, the speciality coffee scene in Liverpool is increasingly plant-milk-friendly — oat milk is now standard and most baristas know which milk works best in their espresso.
Building a Vegan Itinerary in Liverpool
A realistic three-day vegan Liverpool itinerary might run as follows. Day one: breakfast at The Vibe, lunch on the Bold Street walking tour (Bakchich and Mowgli have strong vegan menus), dinner at Down the Hatch. Day two: vegan brunch at Leaf or Kindness Co-op, lunch at Bundobust, dinner at Maray. Day three: breakfast at Bean There, late vegan Sunday roast at The Egg Cafe (book ahead — vegan Sundays here fill up), and an afternoon coffee at Bold Street Coffee.
That itinerary covers the strongest Liverpool vegan and vegetarian restaurants without doubling back, mixes dedicated vegan venues with vegan-friendly mainstream restaurants, and gives you a proper introduction to how Liverpool eats plant-based. Cost expectation: £35-55 per person per day for a vegan eating itinerary including drinks. For broader Liverpool trip costings, see our how much does a trip to Liverpool cost guide.
Vegan Dietary Considerations in Liverpool
Liverpool restaurants are generally good at clearly marking vegan dishes on menus and accommodating allergy and intolerance requirements. Coeliac and gluten-free options are increasingly common — Bundobust, The Vibe, and most of the better cafes have proper gluten-free options labelled. Soy-free and nut-free vegan diets are slightly harder to accommodate but the better restaurants (Maray, Mowgli, Down the Hatch) will work around dietary restrictions if you call ahead. For diners with severe food allergies, calling the restaurant the day before to discuss your needs is the most reliable approach.
Liverpool’s wider food scene is documented in our food and dining hub, with related guides covering best restaurants Liverpool, cheap eats Liverpool, fine dining Liverpool, and best pubs Liverpool.
FAQs — Vegan Restaurants Liverpool
What’s the best vegan restaurant in Liverpool?
Down the Hatch for full vegan junk food; Bundobust for the best vegetarian Indian food; The Egg Cafe for the longest-standing wholesome vegetarian cooking; The Vibe for daytime plant-based wholefood. Choose by occasion rather than ranking — each does something different and all do it well.
Is Liverpool a good city for vegans?
Yes — increasingly so. Liverpool has around a dozen fully plant-based restaurants and cafes, plus a strong roster of vegan-friendly mainstream restaurants (Maray, Mowgli, Bundobust). Most Bold Street and Baltic Triangle restaurants have proper vegan menus rather than apologetic single dishes.
How much does vegan food cost in Liverpool?
Cafe meals run £8-14, sit-down restaurant meals £15-30 per person. Vegan food in Liverpool is generally priced the same as non-vegan equivalents — slightly cheaper at the cafe end (vegan ingredients can be lower-cost) and equivalent at the restaurant end. A vegan day of eating in Liverpool typically costs £35-55 per person.
Where can vegans get junk food in Liverpool?
Down the Hatch on Duke Street is the headline answer — fully plant-based burgers, loaded fries, dim sum, plant chicken strips, and a strong vegan cocktail list. The chain venues (Wagamama, Yo! Sushi, Las Iguanas) all have substantial vegan menus too.
Is Bundobust fully vegetarian?
Yes — Bundobust is entirely vegetarian, with around 70% of the menu vegan and clearly marked. The Bold Street location is one of central Liverpool’s most reliable vegetarian restaurants for diverse groups.
Are there vegan options at Liverpool’s fine dining restaurants?
Yes — The Art School, Roski, Vetch, Belzan, and most of Liverpool’s fine dining restaurants offer dedicated vegan tasting menus with advance notice. Pricing is typically the same as the non-vegan equivalent. See our fine dining Liverpool guide for the full picture.
Where’s a good vegan Sunday lunch in Liverpool?
The Egg Cafe runs a proper vegan/vegetarian Sunday roast at £14-16 per head — properly made, with all the trimmings. Book ahead as Sunday lunches at The Egg fill reliably. The Vibe and Kindness Co-op also do strong Sunday vegan brunches.
Are Liverpool pubs vegan-friendly?
The gastropubs are reliably vegan-friendly with dedicated menu options — The Belvedere, The Pen Factory, The Caledonia all have plant-based mains. The heritage pubs (The Philharmonic, Peter Kavanagh’s) tend to have more limited vegan food but their drinks programmes work fine for vegans. See our best pubs Liverpool guide.
What’s a good vegan breakfast in Liverpool?
The Vibe Cafe for proper plant-based wholefood breakfast; Bean There for vegan English breakfast with shakshuka; Leaf on Bold Street for vegan brunch plates. The Kindness Co-op also runs a strong vegan breakfast menu. £8-14 per breakfast.
Are Liverpool food halls good for vegans?
Yes — every Liverpool food hall (Baltic Market, Duke Street Market, GPO) has at least one dedicated vegan trader plus multiple vegan options at other stalls. The Indian, Lebanese, and Italian kitchens within food halls all have strong vegan menus. See our Liverpool street food markets guide.