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50+ Vegan Options in West End and Southbank, South Brisbane

Never run out of vegan options again in South Brisbane and West End with this definitive guide
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Vegan Options In Southbank

Ma Pa Me

Ma Pa Me is a southeast Asian restaurant with a vegan menu. During my 3 visits, the food has been consistently delicious. Stand out dishes include the tempura eggplant (crispy with a rich sauce) and gado gado (love the strong peanut flavour).

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Zeus Street Greek

A restaurant chain specialising in Greek wraps. They recently released a vegan range with 100% Not chicken and lamb. The Pythagoras vegan chicken wrap is a great choice. I also love the tzimmy, but keep in mind you need to change the meat to a plant based one, and swap out the tzatziki for vegan mustard mayo.

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Pythagoras vegan chicken wrap

Grill’d

Grill'd offers a few vegan burgers using Fable mushroom patty and Impossible Meat.

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Cocobliss

A health food bar with many vegan options. The Ferrero acai bowl is a healthy tasty choice.

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Doughnut Time

A doughnut shop with a few vegan options. The doughnuts have a bread-y texture and are very filling. Red velvet doughnut with cookie frosting "Liam Hemsworthy" is recommended.

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Orita Ora vegan doughnut

P'Nut Street Noodles

P'Nut Street Noodles is a restaurant chain specialised in South-east Asian cuisine. They have clearly marked vegan dishes like Singapore noodles, satay sauce with rice, spring rolls and dumplings. The dishes I've tried are flavourful and tasty.

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Spicy Singapore noodles with Fable meat

San Churro

A dessert shop with vegan churro, ice cream, thick shake and more. Food generally tastes good but this Southbank branch is sometimes not consistent in the food quality.

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Guzman y Gomez

A Mexican chain with dishes that can be made vegan. Sauteed vegetable and shredded mushroom are the two vegan filling. To make it vegan, substitute cheese with vegan chimi mayo for free.

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Fable shredded mushroom tacos

Happy Pops

Cool down with a gelato pop at Happy Pops. They have some vegan options including hazelnut & chocolate and mango & coconut yoghurt.

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Pistachio vegan pop

Nodo

This coffee shop is located next to The Wheel Of Brisbane. There is also a branch inside West Village in West End. t a coffee or vegan shake here and enjoy the beautiful view. They also have some vegan food options like vegan doughnuts.

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They usually carry one vegan doughnut flavour

Suki Poke

A poke bowl shop on Grey Street with some vegan options. Either go with the vegan Tinie Tempeh bowl or build your own with vegan ingredients.

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Tippler’s Tap

This craft beer bar has clearly-marked vegan options. You can find dishes like vegan chicken burger, crumbed mushroom here. At the time of writing, they do $3 tacos on Taco Tuesday.

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Vegan tacos

Cowch

A dessert bar with a vegan menu. The desserts are not the most exciting for me as they are mostly fruit- with dark chocolate-based.

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Harajuku Gyoza

Not many vegan options here but you can get the vegetable gyoza here if you are really craving it.

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Vegan Options In South Brisbane

Vegeme

A Taiwanese vegetarian restaurant with many vegan items. Reasonable prices with generous portions. Two dishes here that I love are rice with bean sauce and beancurd wallet & veggies.

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Rice with bean sauce

Okuman Karaage & Ramen Bar

Although not a veg restaurant, this Japanese place has a relatively big vegan menu. Vegan bento boxes, tempura and ramen are great classic options.

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(From top) tempura platter, vegetable croquette curry rice, teriyaki tofu and yakisoba

Fish Bowl

A healthy fast food chain with a few vegan options like a miso eggplant bowl and this shiitake mushroom box:

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Taro’s Ramen

The vegan menu include vegan ramen, gyoza and curry rice. The ramen is delicious with a deep-flavoured broth.

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Vegan classic ramen

Uncle Don

A donburi serving Japanese rice bowls. They have a few clearly marked vegan options like nasu dengaku don (sweet miso grilled eggplants) and tofu on tofu don (teriyaki fried tofu with tofu cream).

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Cups on Melbourne

A cafe on Melbourne Street carrying vegan desserts from French Tarts, including almond croissants and melting moments. Nice service and tasty coffee as well.

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El Planta

A vegan Mexican restaurant with a seasonal menu. The value is not the best, and the tacos are rather small for the price.

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Gelato Messina

An ice cream shop with good vegan options. All their sorbets are vegan, including the delicious pandan+coconut milk and salted coconut+mango salsa. The cone is vegan as well.

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Nusa Dining

Clearly marked vegan options are available in this Indonesian restaurant. The lodeh choko and stuffed tofu are great choices, and don't miss the ice cendol which is a coconut milk palm sugar drink with colourful sago jellies.

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Miss Claudes Crepes

A crepe shop located in South Brisbane and Newmarket with a vegan menu. The sweet options here is better as they come with a coconut ice cream with no extra cost. The savoury options, however, is a bit less attractive with vegan cheese add-on being $4 extra.

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Vegan strawberry jam crepe

Newport’s Cafe

Some vegan options like corn fritter stack and avo toast. Friendly staff and relaxing atmosphere.

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Corn fritter stack

Punjabi Palace

An Indian restaurant with vegan options. Vegetarian options that are marked dairy free (DF) are vegan.

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Starbucks

Coffee chain with vegan drinks with vegan whipped cream. You can also find some vegan sandwiches, wraps and some desserts here.

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Coffee Head

Try their hot chocolate or mocha with 70% chocolate with oat milk. Very rich and delicious. They also have some vegan cakes and toasties available.

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Ramen Danbo

A ramen shop with one veganisable option - vegetarian miso ramen - if you get rid of the butter. I would recommend going to Taro's Ramen or Okuman Karaage and Ramen Bar instead.

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Vegan Options In West End

Vegan Restaurant West End

A vegan restaurant serving a wide variety of Asian dishes like honey chicken and salty fish fried rice.

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You Came Again

A vegan tapas style restaurant with a backyard garden. Food is decent but with some misses.

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Kurtosh

Kürtősh is a traditional Hungarian pastry. It's freshly made with a crunchy caramelised crust and soft bread-y inside. All flavours except the nutella one is vegan, but only one of the cabinet desserts are vegan at the time of visit.

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Pistachio & almond kurtosh

Moofree Burgers

Moofree Burgers is a vegan burger chain with a branch on Montague road. You can find vegan burgers here as well as treats from its sister shop, Charlie’s Raw Squeeze. They carry a good selection of burgers, desserts, ice creams, juice, etc.

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Anita Gelato

A high end gelato place with several vegan flavours. The sorbet flavours are vegan and there are sometimes milk-based flavours made with non-dairy milk, including the dark chocolate gelato.

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Nautical Bowls

A smoothie bowl place with mostly vegan options. A highlight is that they put fresh peanut butter and almond butter in their bowls. Keep in mind that some bowls have honey

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Govinda’s

Upstairs Indian eatery with many vegan options. Try their feast for a bit of everything, including their curry and koftas. Great value and overall friendly service.

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Oakberry

An acai bar with build-your-own bowls and smoothies. Prices are a bit higher but delicious acai bowls. Go for the combination of peanut butter, strawberry and granola if it's your first time here.

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Mr Hong Modern Asian Restaurant

A Chinese restaurant with an extensive vegan menu. Some great options include rice paper roll and sweet and sour chicken.

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Rice paper rolls

Wrapture

Restaurant in West End specialising in wraps. The satay tofu wrap and falafel wrap are great. Keep in mind that you would need to specify vegan when ordering and the vegan wrap is $1 extra.

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Falafel and satay tofu wraps

Suburban

This cafe on Melbourne Street has good vegan options, including zucchini fritters, nachos, and milkshakes made with vegan ice cream.

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The Burrow

Cafe with laid-back vibes serving some good vegan comfort food including pizza, burgers and more.

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Insane Acai Bar

An acai bowl bar with mostly vegan options. They also have vegan desserts and treats in the fridge cabinet.

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Cheeky Poke

This poke bowl shop has 2 vegan option for poke bowl - tofu and mushroom. I've tried both of them and they are tasty. You can also find vegan-option tacos. Two of the main protein options are vegan - tofu with miso tahini, and mushroom with beetroot hummus. Make sure to ask them to omit mayo to make it vegan.

Keep in mind that this place also serve meat and seafood. And the smell of seafood inside the restaurant could be quite strong.

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Fat Carrot

Great vegan options from this Vietnamese eatery. Try their vegan pulled pork bahn mi and the tofu rice paper roll if you haven't already.

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Mu'ooz

Mu'ooz is a not-for-profit social enterprise and restaurant located in West End. It provides a great way to try some authentic Eritrean cuisine, including enjera, stews and curries. The vegan options are clearly marked. Food is tasty, but some may find the texture lacking a bit with many options being stews.

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Eat Mii Vietnamese

Vietnamese restaurants with options like vegan pho and fried tofu bahn mi.

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The Indian Kitchen

Affordable Indian place with vegan options like samosa and curry.

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Catchment Brewing

A restaurant and bar on Boundary Street with clearly marked vegan options including pizza with vegan cheese option and plant based cheeseburger.

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Donini Pizza

A local pizza shop with a vegan range that uses vegan cheese. Value may not be the best and the pizzas can be quite small.

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Domino’s Pizza

Domino's Pizza has a vegan menu including vegan cheese pizza and cheesy garlic bread. In general it's pretty good and nostalgic. I like the beef & onion pizza the best.

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Gala Thai

Thai restaurant on Boundary Street offering some classic Thai dishes like laksa and som tum. Vegan options are clearly marked on the menu.

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