Best vegan restaurants in Edinburgh
8 venues in Edinburgh rated S to B for vegan, every tier backed by cited sources.
Scotland's first fully vegan fish and chippy restaurant. The food kitchen is entirely plant-based; no animal products used. HappyCow lists it as a Vegan category venue. The pub environment may serve non-vegan drinks, but the food preparation is 100% vegan.
PULSE operates a 100% plant-based kitchen: no dairy, eggs, or honey served. Owners Ayshé and Mark have followed a plant-based diet since 2013. All ingredients are whole, unprocessed pulses, grains, seeds, nuts, vegetables, herbs, fruits, and mushrooms. No animal products are on the premises structurally.
Folks Café is a 100% vegan kitchen. The venue describes itself as a 'family run vegan café' (Facebook), is listed in the Vegan Edinburgh Directory as a 100% vegan business ('Cosy vegan café serving soups, salads, cakes, bakes and great coffee'), and is listed in the Vegan Edinburgh eat guide under 'Fully vegan restaurants in Edinburgh'. No animal products are served on the premises, making cross-contamination with animal products structurally impossible.
Holy Cow is described as a fully vegan café and restaurant, established in Edinburgh in 2016. The venue's own website states it is a 100% vegan operation ('fully vegan cafés'), and the site description in structured data explicitly reads 'Vegan Restaurant and Shop'. All food is prepared in a vegan kitchen with no animal products on the premises.
Novapizza is a 100% vegan restaurant — the entire menu is vegan by design. The venue states 'our menu is 100% vegan' and describes itself as Edinburgh's 'first Italian vegan restaurant'. No animal products are used anywhere on the menu, making cross-contamination with animal-derived ingredients structurally impossible from the kitchen's own ingredients.
The Sly Fox self-describes as '100% plant-based' on its own Facebook page, and is independently described by an aggregator as offering 'vegan renditions of Czech classics, as well as raw vegan and gluten-free sweets. ' A 100% plant-based kitchen structurally excludes animal products from the premises, satisfying the dedicated-kitchen path to Tier S.
The restaurant is explicitly named 'Sora Diana Vegan Italian Restaurant' and the parent brand website is 'The Vegan Sora'. The Tagvenue listing confirms an 'Extensive vegan menu' and Italian cuisine. The name and branding strongly imply a 100% vegan kitchen, though no independent accreditation (e.g. Vegan Society Trademark) is evidenced in these sources. Confidence is capped below 0.8 as evidence comes only from the venue's own branding and one aggregator.
Soul Vegan describes itself as a dedicated vegan restaurant ('a heaven for vegans and plant-based food lovers') with an exclusively plant-based menu. The kitchen structurally contains no animal products, making it a 100% vegan environment. No accreditation is evidenced in the sources.
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