Milan is Vegan friendly: where to eat vegetarian or vegan!
In Milan there are more and more vegetarian and vegan restaurants where to discover new tastes and embrace a green and healthy life philosophy: here are the best ones!
We suggest also to the most sceptics to try at least one of these recommended restaurants: among gourmet sandwiches and courses, salads and sweets, also your prejudices will be downed at one gulp!
How to live without eating meat and fish?
It’s a question that every vegetarian, and even more every vegan, hears at least once in his life. Often it’s followed by a sarcastic: «You don’t know what are you missing!».
And yet it’s enough to try some of the courses of these proposed Milanese restaurants to discover a rich and coloured food life style, that satisfies not only the palate, but also the eye and the sense of smell!
1 - Asia Fusion Sushi
Are you vegan, vegetarian or you just want to try high quality sushi respecting this philosophy? You must not miss Asian Fusion Sushi, a traditional Japanese restaurant with an entire and rich vegan menu dedicated to people which don’t eat meat, fish and their by-products.
Many typical Nipponese specialities as Futomaki, Hosomaki, Uramaki and Nigiri revisited in 100% vegetal terms will delight your eyes and taste, in an incredible flavour experience.
Moreover, in the menu you’ll find also a wide choice of absolutely delicious Japanese and Italian vegan sweets!
Via Reali n.38, Paderno Dugnano (Milan).
2 - Crazy Cat Cafè
Sinuous tails, pleasant meows and vintage wood furniture: only at the Crazy Cat Cafè, the only cat café in Lombardia!
any trustworthy and cuddly kitties will greet you in a calm and relaxing atmosphere. Inside the café you’ll find books, a piano and a record player that can be used by the clients to create their own personal soundtrack.
It’s the ideal place for vegan cat lovers that want to drink a good coffee or taste vegan homemade bakery products as sweets and savouries.
You can lunch or may be take an aperitif with special cocktails or a glass of biologic wine: all with a wide vegan choice!
Via Napo Torriani n.5, Milan.
3 - Flower Burger
The rainbow of Flower Burger colours Milan: rich and coloured sandwiches filled with vegan burgers, sauces and “cheeses” combined with a lot of roast potatoes spiced with paprika, all served inside a likeable and recyclable wooden cases.
It’s the perfect place for every hungry vegan (and not!) searching for an informal, but looked after place, where to enjoy a fast and tasty lunch or dinner: we’re sure that it’ll be able to fully satisfy your irrepressible desire of comfort food!
Viale Vittorio Veneto n. 10 and Via Tortona n. 12, Milan.
4 - Ghea
Sustainable kitchen and quality courses: this is the path chosen by Ghea, a vegan restaurant using only biological ingredients, without any animal products, coming from local sources of supply, constantly modifying the menu following the rhythm and the tastes of the seasons.
At lunch it offers a hot and a cold buffet with an original weight formula.
In the evening the place transforms itself: a scenography of suffused lights and quality music accompany an always seasonal menu, containing a series of incredible dishes with particular beauty and taste.
Via Valenza n. 5, Milan.
5 - Joia
When you talk about high vegetarian cuisine, a serious reference to Joia must be done: we’re talking about Pietro Leemann’s restaurant, the first and unique vegetarian chef to gain a Michelin star.
Even if you’re vegetarian, vegan or omnivorous, certainly a meal at Joia is an experience to be done at least once in your life: vegetarian gourmet courses with curious names and prices, certainly not convenient, but absolutely undeniable.
At the Joia Kitchen is possible to taste degustation of the renowned dishes that made famous the restaurant, with prices decisively more contained. An essential destination for everybody who visits Milan and wants to give himself a journey through high cuisine flavours, rigorously without meat and fish.
Via Panfilo Castaldi n. 18, Milan.
6 - Nabi Natural Biologica
Nabi: that’s the place that made the biological choice its distinguishing mark, where the vegetarian and vegan options are never missing; and ideal place to give yourself a breakfast, a lunch or a dinner marked by flavour and genuineness.
Do you feel like eating a veggie sandwich? You need just to go at Nabi from Wednesday to Sunday, from 19.00 to 23.00: it becomes a vegetarian and vegan restaurant, where is possible to create your personalised veggie burger!
Via Cadore n.41, Milan.
7 - Osteria al 55
Few metres away from the Monumental Milan, an ancient tavern combines innovation and tradition in order to offer vegetarian and vegan high quality courses, thought also and especially to seduce the not vegetarians and vegans!
Vegetal oysters, spaghetti with courgettes and Sicilian pesto, and panna cotta with the taste of lemongrass are just some of the specialities ready to seduce you, taste after taste.
Osteria 55 is an informal and welcoming place, where to have lunch and dinner savouring original and valued recipes.
Via Messina n.55, Milan.
8 - RadiceTonda
If you’re searching for a place to debunk the myth of the vegan cuisine as “sad” and not very yummy, RadiceTonda is what you need: vegan courses, based on biological and biodynamic raw materials, are prepared daily with a constant attention to the final presentation.
In addition to the street food, always available, here you’ll find a various menu, daily changing depending on the availability of the best biological raw materials.
Moreover, the furniture of the restaurant is realised, where possible, with recycled materials, while bowls, glasses, dishes and cutlery are realised in 100% biodegradable bioplastics.
Via Spallanzani n.16, Milan.
9 - SempreBio
Opened in 1990, SempreBio is a Market&Bistrot with an attentive selection of bio and short supply chain products, where is possible to take a coffee or a tea, to have a snack, to taste a smoothie or a glass of wine, to have lunch, but also to shopping.
Every day are freshly prepared a dozen of courses for vegetarians, vegans and people with celiac disease, but also perfect for everybody who wants to try the veggie cuisine with taste!
At SempreBio you can bring also your dog: here you’ll find also vegetarian kibbles!
Via Giuseppe Broggi n.13, Milan.
10 - Shaolin State Of Harmony: Raw Vegan
The Shaolin State Of Harmoni menu follows the Seasons and proposes ethic and healthy recipes based on a correct combination of rigorously zero impact and biological food, cooked with preparation techniques not exceeding 42°C for a detox, energising and draining effect.
The location is divided in 4 rooms: a dining room with open kitchen, a bio-lounge bar perfect for aperitifs and breakfasts, a tea room-cultural salon and a bio-shop.
Recently the chef Shì-Héng-Dìng launched the project GRAWIDANZA (Raw Food, Natural Beauty & Fashion, Healthy Lifestyle) workshop of fruitarian, raw and vegan recipes for the mother’s to-be, following the chromo-cuisine and the Chinese traditional medicine.
Via Teglio n.11, Milan.
11 - VegAmore
A vegan and biological bistrot near to Porta Romana in Milan. If you’re looking for a calm, welcoming and informal place, where to taste 100% vegetal e biological courses, Vegamore is the place to be!
The perfect place for a delicious and cruelty-free breakfast, brunch or dinner, but also for an afternoon break when to give yourself vegetal and gluten-free sweets or fruit and vegetable extracts, everything always combined with good music: vegan, but with love!
Perfect for lunch, for the snack, for dinner, with always new rotated courses, depending on the seasonal ingredients, chosen and prepared by the vegan chef Marco! You must try the vegan-gluten free sweets and the fruit and vegetable extracts.
Via Crema n.12, Milan.
12 - Vegan World
The place is perfect for the International cuisine lovers, but rigorously cruelty-free: Vegan World offers a wide selection of courses to taste the world, bite after bite.
An unique experience where is the client to choose the destination of his travel, matching dishes from distant, but absolutely sensational culinary traditions: starting from the spinach with coconut, typical of Sri Lanka, through the rice with mint from Vietnam, to the Spanish paella, a triumph of taste absolutely not to be missed!
Viale Monte Nero n.34, Milan.
