Vegan Travel Tips for Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

I didn’t, until I visited and discovered a vegan heaven. I wrote this vegan Warsaw guide after spending about a week in Warsaw, Poland and I’m happy to tell you that vegans are spoilt for choice in the Polish capital. When I looked on Happy Cow for vegan restaurants, it informed me that there were no less than 38 vegan restaurants in Warsaw! That’s 100% vegan restaurants, not vegetarian places or just those with veg options. It came as a surprise, as I never knew that Warsaw was so vegan friendly. Now I can easily add it to my list of top vegan friendly places in the world. As an added bonus, food prices in Warsaw are about 50% of what you would typically pay in Western European cities for a decent vegan meal.

This lovely restaurant serves its own vegan versions of traditional Polish food, like vegan pierogi or buckwheat with caviar. It’s a rather small place and when I arrived one day at lunchtime it was completely full, which is always a good sign. When I came back on a Sunday afternoon it was much more relaxed.

I had kompot, a traditional Polish fruit drink, and tried their vegan cheesecake with strawberries made of chickpeas and coconut. A chickpea cake may sound weird, and that was a first for me, but its texture was so perfect that I went ahead and Googled “chickpea vegan cake”. I found 710,000 results. Should try some of those recipes sometime… ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).