Veg-Lover: Where to Find Perth’s Best Vegan and Vegetarian Fare

Cafes and restaurants may once have treated vegetarian and vegan diners as an inconvenience, but in recent years, the dial has shifted.

In 2025, if you’re not offering plant-led dishes that hit just as hard as the rest of the menu, you’re missing a trick. 

Through breakfast, lunch and dinner, from bakeries and cafes to restaurants to speciality grocery stores, here’s our guide to the venues where vegan and vegetarian dishes aren’t an afterthought, but essential.

The Best Vegan Baked Goods and Sweet Treats in Perth

Five or so years ago, you would have struggled to find a “buttery” croissant, a doughnut or a cinnamon bun that was vegan-friendly on the counter of a cafe. Sure, these products existed, but most required pre-ordering days in advance for home delivery.

Now there are endless options for plant-based baked goods and desserts, sought out by vegans and those with food allergies or intolerances.

Darrington’s Pastry in Burswood has vegan versions of suburban bakery favourites, such as danishes, doughnuts, croissants and vanilla slices. It also supplies the vegan savoury catering items to Miss Maud.

Customer favourites at W.H.I.P  (Whole-Hearted Inspired Patisserie) include almond croissants (also stocked at various cafes), flan Parisian and choux pastries, such as the strawberry and Geraldton wax version. French-born co-owner and chef Cedric Manile developed a passion for native plants and flavours during two years working at Wildflower and is now channelling that into decadent plant-based pastries that align with his beliefs and those of co-owner Laura Allieres.

Vegan bliss balls, bars, and slices by Crunchbox can be found at more than 250 businesses around WA. Crunchbox also has a vegan and gluten-free cafe in Malaga that serves acai bowls, a tofu bacon brekkie bagel, smoothie bowls, and on Saturdays only, crowd-pleasing waffles. 

Roho Bure’s decadent, foil-wrapped frozen desserts appeal to those looking for a treat that is “dairy-free, gluten-free, a bit boujee”. Ice-cream sandwich combos include river mint choc chip and strawberry mylkshake. The retail shops are no longer, but you can find them in gourmet grocery stores nationally.

You’ll discover four vegan Greek doughnut options at Donut Worry, while nearly everything at Pretzel is vegetarian—apart from the pepperoni and bacon pretzels—and there are also four vegan pretzel flavours. 

Caring Kitchen is a fixture at Perth markets, offering “natural, honest and delicious” treats including cinnamon scrolls.

Found at its HQ and cafes around town, Zonts Bakehouse vegan croissants deliver a faux buttery hit. They come in butter plain and almond twice-baked.

Vegan and Vegetarian Cafes and Restaurants in Perth

Wholesome and healthy foods, including around 95 per cent vegan options, are the order of the day at brunch favourite Pearth Organic Kitchen, where all product is organic or locally sourced, and free of refined sugar. Vegan apple pie pancakes come with stewed apple, cream cheeze & almond crumble, while the ‘all in’ porridge are served with housemade vanilla cashew butter, stewed berries, cacao nibs and granola. For something more sustaining, try adding marinated tempeh to the macro bowl of seasonal vegetables, brown rice, and hummus. For a bit more on the side, try Pearth’s own vegan cashew mayo.

Once a Northbridge institution, Flora and Fauna has moved to Fremantle but is still known for its vegetarian and vegan brunches. Their strawberry matcha with dairy-free cold foam is well worth a visit.

Loving Hut has been synonymous with plant-based meals all over the world. Just one cafe remains locally, in Wembley. Tuck into pandan waffles or vegan eggs benedict, an assortment of pies or nasi lemak with rendang. Housemade soft-serve is a hit, as is the Sunday buffet with 14 dishes to choose from.

The Hare Krishna-operated Govinda’s in Northbridge has been serving fragrant curries, dahl and desserts in Perth since the 1980s and is still one of the best. Then there’s Formosa Vegetarian Eating House in Kardinya and Formosa Garden in East Perth which offer an Asian fusion vegetarian and vegan spin on stir-fried, soup, claypot and noodle dishes as well as tofu in just about every style you could ask for. Meanwhile, Vegan World is a family-owned restaurant in Northbridge, also offering vegan alternatives to popular South East Asian dishes, where Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant used to be.

Vegan and Vegetarian Speciality Shops in Perth

Operating since 1996, Lotus Vegetarian Market in Northbridge is the go-to supermarket for Asian vegetarian and vegan supplies. Many of the Yong family’s early customers were Vietnamese and Chinese who had turned to a vegetarian diet for religious reasons, or people who loved the food at their now-closed vegetarian restaurant. A tempeh and tofu heaven, popular items include vegan versions of roast chicken, barbecue pork buns, Chinese herbal soups, mushroom-based oyster sauce and tofu fish wrapped in seaweed.

While most supermarkets now stock a range of vegan proteins, cheeses, and pantry goods, you can’t beat a trip to Perth’s original vegan supermarket La Vida Vegan in Subiaco. Everything is 100 per cent vegan, from Beyond Burgers and Gardein 7 Grain Tenders to chocolate, cleaning products and skincare.

Five Vegans is a local, 100 per cent vegan and eco-friendly online shop, so named because everyone in founder Sam Lippy’s family of five is vegan. They’re her motivation for building a kinder and more ethical world. You’ll find all sorts of vegan products including popular locally-made curry pastes and meal kits by Turban Chopsticks, vegan and gluten-free by virtue of the brand’s commitment to using clean local ingredients without any fillers or nasties. Want to try something new? The monthly $40 subscription service offers a mystery box of vegan food and products, with $10 from each box donated to an animal charity. 

Perth’s Best Restaurants That Get Vegans

Vegan cheese has become so widely available that most pizzerias offer it as an option, including General Public Food Co, which states it will “happily veganise any pizza”. Hint: If you’re strictly vegan or have a dairy allergy, we always suggest asking for an unsliced pizza to avoid cross-contamination.

Double Rainbow’s “Korean-ish” menu by chef Navarre Top offers “plentiful gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian” options, including kimchi dumplings and fried mushroom bao. All dietaries are clearly marked “to take out any guess work”. The vegan version of the Han Sang Set Vegan menu is the way to go for groups.

Ramen Ichiraku in Northbridge has a fully-fledged separate vegan menu, including five varieties of ramen, as well as gyoza and faux chicken karaage and teriyaki. You can also order an entire vegan bento. Win.

Varsity is renowned for its burgers, but also throws down solid veg and vegan menus comprising sides, salads and pizzas“so that everyone can enjoy the Varsity experience”.

The Meeting Place kiosk in Hyde Park always has vegan and vegetarian options, such as filo parcels and falafel wraps, ready for a casual bite. You’ll also find Veggie Mama vegan favourites such as gnocchi, chickpea curry and raw desserts.

Sweetwater Rooftop Bar offers a standalone vegan menu featuring Asian-inspired dishes such as steamed lotus buns, gochujang and sesame-glazed cauliflower, and gado gado fried dumplings. A vegan feed me option is available for two or more diners.

Seasonal Brewing’s neighbourhood brewpub goes big on flavour in its vegan offerings. Chow down on mushroom tacos, a bowl of tomato gnocchi, or spiced cumin tofu with black garlic aioli.

Sandalford Wines in the Swan Valley offers a stand-alone vegan menu, created by executive chef Adam Spagnolo.. The current menu has six items, including eggplant cotoletta with romesco and orrecchiette pasta with nettle cream as options for mains. For dessert, try the hazelnut praline mouse with dark chocolate sponge, mango, passionfruit and finger lime. Pair the meal with a glass of wine from the estate’s vegan wine list.

A one-acre garden with 100 varieties of heirloom vegetables provides the inspiration for the ever-changing seasonal menus at Millbrook Winery. Estate-grown fruit and veg are at the heart of planning, and vegetarian and vegan diners are encouraged to note this when booking so the kitchen team can design a menu based on the morning’s gatherings. Autumn vegan dishes include smokey tomato salad with roasted sesame and a zucchini croquette with capsicum sauce & mizuna salad.

Falafel has long been a go-to dish for vegetarians and vegans at restaurants such as The Prophet, with Yalla Bala, Falafel Omisi and Kapara upping the stakes with some of the tastiest balls of goodness going.

Thanh Dat Vietnamese Noodle House offers two vegan pho, one with mushrooms and tofu, the other with mixed vegetables and tofu. And while they don’t have separate vegan menus, you will always find vegan and vegetarian options at Old Young’s Kitchen in the Swan Valley, (try the grilled baby eggplant with putanesca and bush spice almond dhukka) La Cabaña in South Fremantle (go the hand-crushed potatoes and the tofu ‘chorizo’ tacos) and The Corner Dairy in Doubleview (the baby gem and radicchio salad is one of the best salads in Perth).

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