The Best Vegan Restaurants in Los Angeles

Your vegan dinner plans in LA might be about to change in the best way possible. Get to know the best vegan restaurants around the city, with what to order and why to go.

MenuIQ team · Nov 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Don’t book yourself solid in LA before reading this. These picks for the best vegan restaurants in and around Los Angeles take you from a romantic pasta dinner on Melrose to dim sum in Echo Park and a pot pie stop in the Valley.

At Gracias Madre, you could be settling into a patio shaded by mature olive trees, with a margarita beside a plate of lion’s mane tacos. Greenery surrounds the patio, and the restaurant sits on a quiet stretch of Melrose—an inviting escape for your West Hollywood dinner.

Then there’s Crossroads, with almond-ricotta zucchini blossoms and bolognese in a romantic, low-lit room, or PLANTA’s waterfront patio for sushi beside the marina. If your evenings are already booked, don’t be surprised if you end up moving a dinner reservation or two.

The guide covers metropolitan LA, including West Hollywood and Marina del Rey alongside Los Angeles neighborhoods. Six featured restaurants come first, with more names for the itinerary below.

Menus and locations checked November 2, 2026. Menus can change; current restaurant links are included below.

Choose your meal

• A dressed-up pasta night: Crossroads Kitchen, Melrose.
• Tacos and a patio evening: Gracias Madre, West Hollywood.
• Sushi beside the marina: PLANTA, Marina del Rey.
• Dim sum and tea: Men & Beasts, Echo Park.
• Pot pie and café comfort food: Follow Your Heart Cafe, Canoga Park.
• Breakfast or enchiladas: The Grain Cafe, Pico Boulevard.

1. Crossroads Kitchen — a pasta night worth dressing for

Beverly Grove / Melrose · Mediterranean-inspired · Entirely plant-based food · View on Google Maps

Dark wood, upholstered booths and warm table lighting give Crossroads’ Melrose dining room the romantic feel Anjelica Price-Rocha describes in her LA guide. Keep this one in mind for a date, an anniversary, or a night when getting dressed up and going out for pasta is the whole plan.

Her recommendations give you an order to look forward to: zucchini blossoms filled with almond ricotta and served with marinara, followed by tagliatelle bolognese. Both appear on the Fall dinner menu. She praises the blossoms’ crisp outside and warm, cheesy filling. Sharing is optional. Best to establish that before anyone reaches across the table.

2. Gracias Madre — your table beneath the olive trees

West Hollywood · Mexican · Entirely plant-based food · View on Google Maps

Whitewashed brick, exposed beams and high ceilings make the room at Gracias Madre inviting before you even reach the patio. Outside, mature olive trees and greenery give dinner its West Hollywood setting. Ask about an outdoor table when you book if that’s the evening you have in mind. With an agave-focused bar, a margarita is a tempting place to begin.

For the table, the current food menu offers flautas with herbed potato and pepper or jackfruit tinga, plus lion’s mane tacos. Choose a filling for the flautas, add tacos to share, and settle into dinner beneath the olive trees.

3. PLANTA Marina del Rey — give sushi night a waterfront seat

Marina del Rey · Asian-inspired, with plant-based sushi · Entirely plant-based food · View on Google Maps

You could be sitting on PLANTA’s waterfront patio, with sushi in the middle of the table and the marina as your backdrop. Bring a few friends and ask about a patio table when you book.

Recipe creator Remy Park recommends PLANTA for dinner with non-vegan friends. In a 2024 interview with Khushbu Shah, she called it her “favorite place to bring non-vegans,” highlighting the more upscale dining experience. Crispy rice was among her regular orders.

On the current Marina del Rey menu, that crispy rice comes with spicy ahi watermelon and avocado. Add the Torched & Pressed roll, with avocado and a miso-truffle glaze, for another plate to pass around while you decide what comes next.

4. Men & Beasts — dim sum and time for tea

Echo Park · Modern Chinese and dim sum · Entirely plant-based food · View on Google Maps

Men & Beasts brings dim sum and a tea lounge into the same Echo Park evening. Bring a few friends who are happy to order generously and share plates. Mona Holmes and Rebecca Roland highlight the lounge in Eater’s regional guide, giving you another reason to spend some time at this Sunset Boulevard restaurant.

Build dinner around prosperity dumplings and asparagus shumai from the current menu. The dumplings have a plant-based pork and chive filling, and you can choose them boiled or pan-fried. Add shumai alongside, then leave time to explore the tea. Book ahead for dinner, especially on weekends, as the restaurant recommends.

5. Follow Your Heart Cafe — a Valley comfort-food stop

Canoga Park · American café comfort food · Entirely plant-based café food · View on Google Maps

A seat at the counter, a wooden café interior and a little LA food history make Follow Your Heart a stop to keep in mind for your Valley day. It began in 1970 as a vegetarian sandwich counter; the café’s food is entirely plant-based today.

The café’s own favorites guide identifies its plant-based chicken pot pie as the bestseller. Start there for lunch, or look to the baked mac and cheese on the lunch and dinner menu if that’s the craving you brought to Canoga Park.

Check the café’s meal-service information before heading over—the market’s hours don’t tell you when the kitchen is serving.

6. The Grain Cafe — breakfast first, enchiladas later

Mid-City / Pico Boulevard · Mexican comfort food and café breakfast · Entirely plant-based food · View on Google Maps

Your LA food plans deserve a breakfast stop, too. At The Grain Cafe on Pico, Huevos Con Chorizo brings together tofu scramble and chipotle chorizo with avocado, black beans and corn tortillas. It’s a savory start from the Pico menu to keep in mind when you’re planning a morning in Mid-City.

For another meal, turn to the enchiladas. In her personal LA guide, Price-Rocha recommends Grain Cafe’s enchiladas verdes, praising the salsa and melted cheese. The Pico location offers enchiladas with plant-based chicken, onion and zucchini, topped with roja, verde or mole sauce and melted Daiya cheese. Her verde recommendation gives you a way into that choice. Sauce indecision is a perfectly good reason to come back.

More vegan restaurants to consider

For a few more places to add to your LA plans:

• Pura Vita — West Hollywood · Google Maps
• Satdha Plant-Based Thai Kitchen — Santa Monica · Google Maps
• El Cocinero — Van Nuys · Google Maps
• Maciel's Plant-Based Butcher & Deli — Highland Park · Google Maps
• Shojin — Culver City area / Washington Boulevard · Google Maps
• Hey, Sunshine Kitchen — Culver City · Google Maps

Fit the meal into your LA day

These restaurants are spread across metropolitan LA, so check each Maps pin against the rest of your plans. Keep Los Angeles Explore on MenuIQ handy for browsing menus around the places you’re already visiting.

Frequently asked questions

Do all the restaurants listed serve entirely vegan food?

Yes. Every restaurant named here describes its food as vegan or entirely plant-based. That covers the prepared restaurant or deli food, rather than every product in an attached shop. Confirm drinks and any allergy requirements directly with the restaurant.

Which featured restaurant should you choose for a vegan breakfast?

The Grain Cafe on Pico is the breakfast pick. Its Huevos Con Chorizo combines tofu scramble and chipotle chorizo with black beans and corn tortillas. Check the branch’s current service information when planning your morning.

Allergen and dietary information is AI-generated and may be incomplete — always confirm with the restaurant.