🥦 Best Vegan & Plant-Based in New Orleans
17 vegan & plant-based spots in New Orleans, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Vegan & Plant-Based Spots
1
Shaya
Alon Shaya's modern Israeli room on Magazine Street in Uptown is built around the wood-fired pita that hits the table puffed and blistered, made to order. Order a spread of hummus variations and pile ...
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2
Small Mart Cafe
Small Mart Cafe is a vegetarian spot on Chartres Street in the Faubourg Marigny. It serves a plant-based menu to the residential blocks of the lower Marigny.
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3
Sweet Soulfood
A vegan soul food kitchen on N. Broad in Bayou St. John, serving organic, soy-free, dairy-free plates cafeteria-style — pick two or three from the steam table. The draws are the sweet hot fried caulif...
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4
Original Thought NOLA
A vegan kitchen working out of a food-truck-turned-stall at the Fairgrounds end of Gentilly Boulevard, Original Thought NOLA cooks plant-based plates with a strong local following at 4.8. Order-ahead,...
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5
Addis NOLA
A family-run Ethiopian room on historic Bayou Road in the Seventh Ward, the city's old Black business corridor. The doro wat is the anchor, a chicken-and-egg stew simmered down for a full day, scooped...
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6
Breads on Oak
Breads on Oak bakes organic artisan breads in a stone hearth oven on Oak Street in the Leonidas neighborhood, following Old World technique rather than a commissary shortcut. The café went fully vegan...
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7
I-tal Garden
I-tal Garden serves plant-based takes on New Orleans soul food from a spot on St. Claude Avenue near Louis Armstrong Park, a short walk from the French Quarter but far enough off the tourist path to f...
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8
Lebanon's Cafe
The South Carrollton Avenue Lebanese kitchen that's been the city's go-to for shawarma and hummus for two-plus decades. The hummus is made in-house and creamy, the chicken shawarma is the order, and t...
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9
Sneaky Pickle
A Bywater vegetarian cafe on Burgundy Street working an ever-changing, from-scratch menu built around local farm produce. The signature is a smoked-tempeh Reuben, backed by seasonal vegetable plates a...
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10
Cleo's Mediterranean Cuisine & Grocery
Cleo's runs a halal Mediterranean kitchen at the river edge of the French Quarter on Decatur Street, no alcohol and a long bench of vegan and vegetarian options. The chicken shawarma and gyro plates c...
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All 17 Vegan & Plant-Based Spots in New Orleans
La Macarena Pupuseria & Latin Cafe
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Eat-Well Food Mart
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Mona's Cafe
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Soule Cafe
83
Pond Coffee
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Lamara Coffee & Kitchen
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2 Phat Vegans
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