Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 4, 2019.

Address: Schwedenplatz 3-4, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future).
Company Holidays: No information available
Phone: +43-(0)699-1192 9658
Website: No
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KardamomRestaurant
Email: vegetaria1@gmail.com
Free WiFi: Yes, and there are also computers – this is an Internet café
Austrian Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: Yes
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: Yes
Outdor Seating Area: Yes, in a pedestrian zone, very small

Kardamom is an Internet café which offers printing and scanning services in addition to Internet access. This restaurant, which opened in April 2013, used to be strictly vegetarian, unfortunately they are now giving customers the option of ordering meat dishes during their special events, oriental dinners with live music performed by musicians from Iran.

I did consider not listing this restaurant as a “vegetarian” Viennese restaurant, but decided to grandfather it in – it was included in the printed book (and Kindle) editions of “The Vegan Tourist: Vienna,” published in 2014 and 2016. Also, a vegan Swing Kitchen restaurant opened right next door to Kardamom, and I fear that this restaurant’s revenue might be affected by the competition – I hope they manage to stay open. Kardamom’s lunch options are still exclusively vegetarian.

Kardamom offers vegetarian Persian lunch specials during the week (but not on the weekends or on public holidays). Entrees cost 8.50 Euros, soups are also available (small: 3.00 Euros, large: 4.00 Euros) (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future). On my first visit, the lunch special wasn’t vegan, so I ordered à la carte and chose tofu in a lemon-tomato sauce, vegan raita, saffron rice, rice with Berberis berries, tomato salad, and a salad of mint leaves. Occasionally, the daily entrée will be vegan. That was true on my second visit, when it consisted of textured, seasoned soy meat, vegan raita, rice with dill, Berberis berries, pilaf, fava beans, mâche salad, and pickled vegetables. You can’t get vegan dishes like these anywhere else in Vienna.

I can recommend the home-made ginger lemonade (2.70 Euros) and the muskmelon juice with rose water (3.70 Euros). There’s a small outdoor seating area, which consists of only a couple of tables. But it’s in a pedestrian zone, set back from the busy traffic of nearby Franz-Josefs-Kai.

Original blog post: December 4, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 5, 2019.

Address: Färbergasse 8, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and on public holidays (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future).
Company Holidays: Dec 24, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019, Aug 3 – 18, 2019.
Phone: +43-(0)1-533 56 22
Website: http://www.koestlich.biz
Facebook: No
Email: office@koestlich.biz
Free WiFi: No
Austrian Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: Yes
Dogs Welcome: Yes, with a muzzle in addition to a leash
Seating Available: Yes
Outside Seating Area: No

Köstlich is a vegetarian restaurant which offers lunch specials: two different soups and entrees, which are available in two sizes (soup: 3.50 or 4.80 Euros, entrée 4.80 or 7.20 Euros). One soup and one entrée are always vegan or can be veganized (listed as “vegan möglich” on the menu). The desserts are almost never vegan, which is a shame. Some salads (small: 4.50 Euros, large: 6.50 Euros) are vegan, most can be veganized. (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future).

Köstlich is a self-service restaurant. Many people who work in the nearby offices order take-out, and people start to line up soon after the restaurant opens at 11:30 AM. So come early, because they only prepare a certain amount of food and serve it until they run out.

These are some of the dishes served at Köstlich: Asian vegetable soup with peanuts, Mediterranean vegetable soup with basil and rosemary, tomato soup with toasted fennel seeds, Mexican enchiladas with tomato chili salsa, chickpea korma with coconut, almonds and basmati rice, and a mushroom risotto with tomatoes and arugula salad.

Original blog post: December 5, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist on December 6, 2019, and last updated November 28, 2021. This restaurant closed at the end of November 2019.

Address: Fleischmarkt 16 (at the back of the Mandala courtyard), 1010 Vienna
Website: this restaurant is no longer in business
Facebook: this restaurant is no longer in business

Makro 1 offers vegan lunch specials: one kind of soup (small: 4.50 Euros, large: 6.00 Euros) and one kind of entrée (small: 11.00, large: 13.50 Euros). If you order both (small soup, small entrée), you pay 13.50 Euros. (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

Lunch is served from 11:30 AM until 3:00 PM. The restaurant is part of a small organic, vegetarian grocery store, and all the dishes are prepared with organic ingredients. Makro 1 has been offering vegan lunches for more than 20 years, the organic grocery store – orginally named Makrokosmos – was founded in 1982.

Entrees usually consist of one kind of grain crop (rice, Khorasan wheat, quinoa, etc.), two or three different vegetables, and some salad. A typical entrée would be Einkorn wheat, Savoy cabbage with olives and caper, and broccoli-leek gravy. Makro 1 sells wonderful vegan desserts, like pumpkin pie with chocolate sauce, strawberry muffins, or poppy seed cake. Tap water is available for free, and you can order various other drinks, like unfiltered juices.

There’s only one communal table at Makro 1, which seats eight people, but somehow I’ve always found a seat. So don’t let that deter you. In the summer, you can sit in the Schanigarten in the courtyard, far away from city traffic.

Original blog post: December 6, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 23, 2019.

Address: Wollzeile 25, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM, Saturdays 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (1:30 PM during August) (store hours). Closed on Sundays and on public holidays. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: No information available
Phone: +43-(0)1-512 42 971
Website: http://www.staudigl.at/kueche.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staudiglwien
Email: office@staudigl.at
Free WiFi: No
Austrian Debit Cards: Yes
Credit Cards: Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
Bathroom Facilities: Yes
Dogs Welcome: No
Seating Available: No
Outside Seating Area: No

Reformhaus Staudigl is a vegetarian health food store, which offers soups, salads, sandwiches, and desserts for lunch (Mondays – Fridays). There’s no seating: just a few high tables, you have to stand while you eat. Reformhaus Staudigl is nevertheless very popular among the locals.

Soups (3.70 Euros, not always vegan) are served with a piece of bread. Small sandwiches cost 2.00 Euros. Other vegan options are salads (small: 4.10 Euros, large: 5.20 Euros), and quinoa or vegetable bowls (5.50 – 6.90 Euros). (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

Freshly pressed juices are also available, and tap water is offered for free. At Reformhaus Staudigl, you can choose between a number of high-quality organic oils and vinegar for your salad dressing, like Omega 3 or macadamia nut oil, and balsamic vinegar.

This health food store has a very clean customer bathroom (you need a key), and you can buy organic, vegan, and various health food items as well as vegan cosmetics in the store. Lavera is my favorite cosmetics brand, many of their products are vegan, certified by The Vegan Society – try one of Lavera’s shower gels (orange, lime, rose, and coconut are all vegan).

Original blog post: December 7, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 8, 2019.

Address: Rauhensteingasse 12, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and on public holidays. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: Dec 24, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019
Phone: No
Website: No
Facebook: No
Email: No
Free WiFi: No
Austrian Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: No
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: Bar stools
Outdoor Seating Area: No

Natürlich Wrenkh is a tiny vegetarian organic self-service restaurant, which gets very crowded during lunch hours. You pay for your food at the counter, and there are a few bar stools with high tables for seating.

The restaurant offers lunch specials: one kind of soup (4.20 Euros) and one kind of entrée (small: 6.00 Euros, large: 8.30 Euros, 9.50 Euros for both). You can order the entrée with a salad instead of soup (9.90 Euros). Unfortunately, quite often neither the soup nor the entrée is vegan, so you are stuck with the salad buffet (small: 6.00 Euros, large: 8.50 Euros) or can order rice-vegetable patties (2.50 Euros). (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

These are some of the salads prepared at Natürlich Wrenkh: broccoli and nutmeg, green beans and black beans and avocados, quinoa and vegetables, cucumber and arugula. During one of my visits I ordered a vegan beet soup, which was available on that day.

I liked the food, but didn’t really enjoy myself at Natürlich Wrenkh. The tiny restaurant gets too crowded at lunchtime, and the bar stool seating is uncomfortable. As there are no customer bathrooms at Natürlich Wrenkh, there are better choices for vegans in the area.

Original blog post: December 7, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 18, 2019.

Address: Drahtgasse 2, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Saturdays 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Closed on Sundays and on public holidays. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: Dec 23 – 27, 2018, May 1 – 2, 2019.
Phone: +43-(0)676-3008 763
Website: https://www.simplyrawbakery.at/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simplyrawbakery
Email: seeyou@simplyrawbakery.at
Free WiFi: Yes
Debit Cards: Yes
Credit Cards: JCB, MasterCard, Visa
Bathroom Facilities: No
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: Yes
Outdoor seating area: Yes, in a pedestrian zone

Simply Raw Bakery, which opened in 2014, is owned by Gabriele Danek, who bakes vegan and organic no-sugar-added sweets. They are gluten-free and contain no soy products either. None of her sweets are heated above 42°C.

Breakfast is available all day (several kinds to choose from, 6.90 – 8.90 Euros). Smoothies (5.90 Euros), plant-based milkshakes (5.90 Euros), and fresh pressed juices (5.90 Euros) are also available throughout the day. At lunchtime, you could order the Buddha bowl (14.90 Euros), stuffed Avocado (9.90 Euros), salads (9.90 – 10.90 Euros), or sandwiches (5.90 – 11.90 Euros). Leave some room for dessert, Simply Raw Bakery has delicious waffles (5.90 Euros), Tiramisu (6,90), chocolate mousse (5.90 Euros), and raw vegan cakes (6.50 Euros per piece). They also have wonderful homemade lemonade. (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

Original blog post: December 16, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 18, 2019.

Address: Hollandstraße 16, 1020 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM (until 10:00 PM in the summer), Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM (until 10:00 PM in the summer). (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: Dec 19 – 27, 2018, Dec 31, 2018 – Jan 4, 2019, reduced opening hours Dec 28 – 30, 2018
Phone: +43-(0)699-1166 0092
Website: http://www.fettundzucker.at
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fettundzucker
Email: office@fettundzucker.at
Free WiFi: Yes
Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: Yes
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: Yes
Outdoor seating area: Yes

Fett + Zucker, which opened in 2011, is a small vegetarian café. Vegan apple crumble cake (3.60 Euros) and banana bread (3.00 Euros) are always available. Bohnenstrudel (strudel with beans and a vegan yoghurt dip with chives, 4.50 Euros) is a seasonal dish, and a typical regional dish in Burgenland, one of Austria’s nine states, where owner Eva-Maria Trimmel was born and raised. Try the vegan tofu scramble, one of my favorite dishes at this café. My only complaint is that the serving size is very small, but it only costs 2.00 Euros. Order some toast and vegan spreads (4.20 Euros) with your scramble. I also like the vegan blueberry cheesecake (3.60 Euros). (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

At Fett + Zucker, you order and pay at the counter, but your food is served at the table. There’s free WiFi, the café is wheelchair accessible, and dogs are welcome.

Original blog post: December 18, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 23, 2019.

Address: Obere Augartenstraße 70/L7, 1020 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays 12:00 noon – 7:00 PM, Tuesdays – Fridays: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM; Saturdays: opening hours depend on the weather. Closed on Sundays and on public holidays. Shorter opening hours during the winter months. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: Jan 1-6, 2019
Phone: +43-(0)699-8196 4095
Website: No
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lowveganextra/
Email: lowveganextra@gmail.com
Free WiFi: No
Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: No
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: No
Schanigarten: No

Omas Backstube (translation: grandma’s bakery) is a tiny bakery which sells vegan bread and various vegan baked goods. The bakery has been in existence for several years, but started offering only vegan baked goods in September 2018. (Cow’s milk is available for teas and coffees, and some non-vegan industrial ice cream in individual portions is also sold.)

All the baked goods are made with spelt flour (bread, buns, cakes, etc.), and sugar substitutes are often used for baking. Individual slices of cake cost between 3.20 and 3.90 Euros. (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.) I love the mango cheesecake, fruit tartelettes, cinnamon rolls, and apricot crumble. It is not uncommon for Omas Backstube to close early, when everything’s sold out. I love that Saturday’s opening hours depend on the weather – check their Facebook page for updates.

Original blog post: December 20, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 23, 2019.

Address: Wiedner Hauptstraße 37, 1040 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM. Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and on public holidays. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: Dec 21, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019, Aug 1 – Sept 8, 2019.
Phone: +43-(0)660- 862 90 01
Website: No
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diekochdame
Email: kochdame.judith@gmail.com
Free WiFi: Yes
Debit Cards: No
Credit Cards: No
Bathroom Facilities: No
Dogs Welcome: Yes
Seating Available: Counter seating with bar stools and one table with regular chairs
Outdoor seating area: Yes

Die Kochdame is a small vegetarian restaurant which opened in 2018. It only has one table with chairs and counter seating on bar stools for a few additional people. Many customers order take-away. Die Kochdame (translation: lady, who cooks) prepares one or two daily soups (small: 2.90 Euros, large: 4.50 Euros), one entrée with a side salad (9.50 Euros), one pasta dish (8.90 Euros), and one dessert (3.20 Euros). Most of those dishes are vegan, non-vegan cheese toppings or ingredients are offered for vegetarians. Many organic, regional, and seasonal ingredients are use to prepare the food. Wine and beer is also available at this small restaurant. (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.)

Original blog post: December 22, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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Please note: This article was first published on The Vegan Tourist and last updated December 23, 2019.

Address: Stumpergasse 57, 1060 Vienna
Opening Hours: Mondays – Fridays 8:00 AM – 7:30 PM, Saturdays 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Closed on Sundays and on public holidays. (2019 opening hours, which might change in the future.)
Company Holidays: On December 24, they usually close early, at appr. 1:00 PM
Phone: +43-(0)1-595 49 00
Website: https://maranvegan.at/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maranvegan
Email: maran@maranvegan.at
Free WiFi: Yes
Debit Cards: Yes
Credit Cards: MasterCard, Visa
Bathroom Facilities: Yes
Dogs Welcome: No
Seating Available: Counter seating with bar stools and regular tables and chairs
Outdoor Seating Area: No

Maran Vegan is a vegan supermarket with an in-store vegan bistro. Many years ago, Stefan and Josefine Maran opened one of the first organic grocery stores in Vienna, subsequently opened several additional branches, and thereby helped establish organic products as “mainstream” in Vienna. They eventually sold their stores, and after a two-year hiatus opened Maran Vegan in 2013, the first vegan supermarket in Vienna. Approximately 95 % of all items sold at their store are organic as well as vegan.

I love, love, love their store. It’s such a pleasure being able to choose whatever I like – and not having to read the labels. Everything’s vegan at this store. The owners and staff are all vegetarians or vegans, and are very helpful.

Fruits and vegetables are provided by an organic farm outside of Vienna. Maran Vegan sells hard-to-come-by products like vegan tooth paste with added Vitamin B12.

The vegan bistro has the same opening hours as the store, so you can eat breakfast there (7.90 – 10.80 Euros). The bistro has lunch specials: soup (3.80 Euros) and one entrée (7.90 Euros), dhal with rice (4.70 Euros), various snacks, and a selection of salads (small: 4.90 Euros, large: 6.90 Euros). (2019 prices, which are due to change in the future.) Bread and pastries from various bakeries are sold at this bistro, and during the Viennese Carnival season, you can buy Krapfen, one of my favorite pastries.

Original blog post: December 23, 2019 by Ingrid Haunold
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