The Best of Vegan Food in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Our recent visit to Portugal was filled with great food experiences. We started up in Lisbon, which is easily one of the most vegan-friendly cities we’ve come across. Apart from having a growing vegan food scene, it’s also a lovely city to explore - so definitely one to have on your travel list!

There were no issues finding vegan food in Lisbon and we also found a lot of traditional ‘veganized’ dishes to eat (which is surprising and good because Portuguese cuisine is known to be extremely heavy on animal products). There’s a lot to cover on vegan in Lisbon, so I’m going to give you the best dine out spots based on these categories:

Almost all the places mentioned here are vegan - that’s the great thing about Lisbon - plenty of complete plant-based restaurants. We found that a lot of the vegan restaurants are upscale and pricey, but there are a few affordable ones. In the 5 days we were in town, we ate all our meals out, so I won’t be covering grocery shopping in detail - I’m sure you can find plenty of vegan products at the Celeiro stores or a Bio Mercado.

This goes straight at the top of the best cafés list in Lisbon! It’s a bakery with everything lovely - croissants, brioche, empanadas, pastel de nata - all vegan! We had 2 chocolate croissants, a puff pastry, a cheese toastie, ‘fish’ nuggets, along with 2 espressos. All this amounted to only 20€. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).