For a city in a country that generally considers fish vegetarian and traditionally cooks almost everything with lard (even smearing it on their bread as a snack!), there are a shockingly high number of quality vegan and vegetarian restaurants in Warsaw. In fact, in 2019 Warsaw was voted as the 6th most vegan-friendly city in the world by Happy Cow, the leading international guide for vegan restaurants; then, in 2021, National Geographic named Warsaw the top city for vegans in the world!

More and more Poles are turning to vegetarian and vegan lifestyles as a healthier alternative to the stodgy, starchy national cuisine, and thanks to Warsaw's amazing vegan gastro scene it actually is healthy - an improvement over the olden days when not eating meat meant subsisting on bread, dumplings, potatoes and vodka. Taste the latest trends in the exclusively vegan and veggie restaurants we list here.