Vegan in … is a series of posts on Elephantastic Vegan where I write about my vegan travelling experiences. I love to travel especially to larger cities, rather than spending my days on the beach at some resort, but finding restaurants with vegan options in a foreign city isn’t always that easy. With this post I want to show you awesome places to eat for your next trip to Berlin in Germany! :)
It’s never a bad idea to use HappyCow to get a neat overview of your vegan eating possibilities. I haven’t even had the chance to try all of the vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants in Berlin because the city has so much to offer for vegans! So naturally this post only contains the few options that I’ve tested & tried. I travelled to Berlin with my boyfriend in August 2016. I read about a vegan summer festival taking place and I simply had to go (I’m sure you understand!).
Vegan in Berlin – travel video
Instead of the regular sight-seeing section in my vegan in posts, I’ll share some photos of the food at the vegan summer festival! If you have a chance to go there, I can absolutely recommend it. The food was amazing, the festival was perfectly organized, the people are so nice.. all in all.. it was perfect :)
Top left: Cumin Cabbage Pitas from Le Pique Nique | Top right: Strawberry and Cucumber Popsicles from Paletas | Bottom left: Indian wraps from Kalkutta Roll | Bottom right: Black Burger with homemade tofu patty from TofuTussis
Eleeeeephaaaaant!
…and now to the restaurants in Berlin.
Momos
Pan-fried momos with 3 different fillings + weird me wanting to dig in :)
Fehrbelliner Straße 5, 10119 Berlin
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Okay, we might have gone a bit overboard at Momos because we ordered a large set (18 pieces) of pan-fried momos plus all of the sides: green beans, salad and edamame. But we couldn’t resist! We opted for 3 different fillings for the momos: broccoli-shiitake-tofu, pumpkin-chickpea and mushroom-potato. The broccoli-shiitake-tofu filling was my favorite while my boyfriend liked the mushroom-potato one the most. But they were all delicious and we were so full afterwards. Momos is not entirely vegan, but 4 of the 6 different fillings were vegan ones, so lots of options!
Vöner
Vöner in bread, Vöner in wrap + cheesy fries
Boxhagenerstraße 56, 10245 Berlin
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I don’t think you can come to Berlin and not have a Vöner ;) Vöner is the plant-based alternative to Döner – meat on a rotisserie. I’m more of a wrap girl, while my boyfriend chose the vöner in bread (with peanut sauce! yumm!). We also had the special fries with a cheesy sauce and caramelized onions, which was absolutely delicious. The portions are huge! I couldn’t even finish my wrap but it was a great breakfast the next day :D
Brammibal’s Donuts
Left: Salted Caramel Hazelnut on top, Lavender Blueberry at the bottom; Right: Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge and White Chocolate Pistachio
Maybachufer 8, 12047 Berlin
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Brammibal’s Donuts was probably what I was most looking forward in my Berlin trip and I wasn’t disappointed. These were the best donuts (vegan or not) I’ve ever had. Prior to the trip I checked out the flavors on their website, and I was heart-broken when they didn’t have the strawberry cream cheese one, but the Lavender Blueberry Donut and White Chocolate Pistachio were excellent comforters. The chocolate peanut butter fudge donut my boyfriend had was soooo good too!
Cat Tuong
appetizer (fried dumplings) and Pho Cary
Kastanienallee 89, 10435 Berlin
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Cat Tuong is a lovely small vietnamese restaurant and 100% vegan. As for the appetizer, we had these fried dumplings/rolls of which I have forgotten the name, but they were really good. As the main course, I had the Pho Cary consisting of a red curry with coconut milk, tofu, seitan, veggies and rice noodles. The portion was huuuuuge and delicious! I’m a sucker for red curries :D The tables in the restaurant are really tight next to each other, so it was a bit awkward. But when I took the photos of the food, the person sitting next to us asked me if I’m a food blogger, so we talked and actually realized that he was Eric, the founder of HappyCow! Ahhh what a crazy coincidence. We talked a lot and got drinks afterwards (which brings us to Chaostheorie).
Chaostheorie
Cake’n’Booze @ Chaostheorie
Schliemannstraße 15, 10437 Berlin
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Chaostheorie is a 100% vegan cocktailbar and we’ve actually been there before about 4 years ago. They have a huge selection of cocktails (every single one we’ve tried was amazing!) plus they have cake! We tried the cocoa coconut cake and chai cake and they were so soft and fluffy! Yumm! The staff was exceptionally friendly. :) If you’re looking for a nice and uncomplicated place for an after-work drink, this is it!
Djimalaya
Hummus, olives and pickled gherkins, sweet potato fries, pita and falafel
Invalidenstraße 159, 10115 Berlin
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Djimalaya is an Israeli restaurant – they serve meat but the vegan options are marked in the menu, so they’re easy to spot. We indulged in a mixture of their sharers: hummus, a plate of olives and pickled gherkins, sweet potato fries, homemade pita and falafel. It was to die for and everything we’ve wanted in that situation. Yumm!
Curryhain
Currywurst
Wühlischstraße 40/41, 10245 Berlin
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If you don’t want to leave Berlin without trying the world famous Currywurst, then Curryhain is the best choice, because they have a vegan Currywurst! We tried the vegan sausage in tomato sauce at the Vegan Summer Festival and loved it.
Playing with Eels
Chocolate Brownie & Berry Shake
Urbanstraße 32, 10967 Berlin
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Playing with Eels serves vegan brunch every saturday – unfortunately we weren’t hungry enough for an all-you-can-eat-buffet but we tried the suuuper fudgy chocolate brownie and berry milkshake. So good! I loved the interior of the store because it’s bookshop-café combo.
Yellow Sunshine Burger
Wiener Straße 19, 10999 Berlin
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Yellow Sunshine Burger isn’t a completely vegan place, but they have lots of vegan options! We tried the Cheese Burger at the Vegan Summer Festival and it was awesome! I especially loved that the patty wasn’t as “beefy” tasting as many other burgers. I really liked that!
Fast Rabbit (Closed) :(
Asia “Dirty Roll” & Mexican “Dirty Roll” + Fries
Eberswalderstraße 1, 10437 Berlin
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This was actually our first meal in Berlin and wow..what a start! I opted for the Asia “Dirty Roll” with seasoned soy strips, peanut butter sauce, salad and veggies, while my boyfriend choose the Mexican “Dirty Roll”. And because we were hungry from the trip we also had fries and they were exceptionally good – they tasted a lot like curly fries. The Dirty Rolls came with a dollop of hummus – totally delicious! The restaurant is right across the Mauerpark where there’s a huge flea market every sunday.
So this was pretty much my Berlin Trip. Have you ever been there? Do you have any additional vegan-friendly restaurant tips for Berlin? I’d love to know in the comments!
Miss Polkadot
In my opinion Berlin is the worst place to be food-wise as a vegan – because there are just TOO many choices! One of my favourites is Dolores Burritos [serves meat, too, but has amazing vegan options], The Bowl is great but expensive and one restaurant I really want to try is Sfizy Veg. An all-vegan pizzeria that has a menu broader and more varied than most regular/non-vegan ones!
I hope you had an overall fantastic time in Berlin – it has so much to offer, not just regarding food :).
Bianca
Yessss, I’m glad I don’t live there, because I’d have no money and I’d seriously gain weight :D
Thank you so much for the recommendations!! Prior to my trip, I looked into all of the 3 restaurants you mentioned. I couldn’t find any prices of the bowl online, so I ranked it back at my list of restaurants I HAD to visit. I really wanted to go to Dolores Burritos and Sfizy Veg but there was simply too much food hahaha. It was definitely not the last time I was in Berlin, looking forward to a part II :)
Miss Polkadot
Well, if you’re in Berlin – or maybe Hamburg, too? – again let me know. Maybe we can meet up :).
Bianca
Awesome, I definitely will! Hamburg has been on my to-travel-list for far too long :)
Lucia
Hey Bianca!
Ich war letztes Wochenende auch in Berlin und hab deine Food-List davor noch kurz durchstöbert. Wir haben den Vöner und das Donut-Cafe ausprobiert… war echt sehr, sehr lecker! Dank dir für die Tipps!
Lg Lucia
Bianca
Hi Lucia, es freut mich, dass die Liste nützlich war! :) Ohh ich will auch unbedingt bald mal wieder hin, es gibt noch so viel zu entdecken dort.
Marlene - Idle Hands Awake
Oh my, I cannot tell you how hungry this post made me! I was in Berlin visiting friends in 2014 and was thrilled with all the vegan options. Unfortunately I don’t remember the names of the places I went to, but there was an amazing pizza place with a vegan pear and gorgonzola pizza, as well as a different vegan Doener option (which I could have eaten ten of). Also the vegan cheese and dairy products in Germany are way better than here! Thank you for sharing this post, I am bookmarking it for the next time I’m there!
Bianca
Heya Marlene, I just came back from Berlin yesterday and I found enough vegan restaurants for a Vegan in Berlin part II :D
Maybe you went to Sfizy Veg for the pear and gorgonzola pizza? I heard the have awesome pizzas, but we didn’t eat there.
I almost collapsed when I went to veganz – the 100% vegan supermarket. SOOO many vegan products <3
Glad you like the post! :)
Sean
Hi Bianca,
Thanks for this info. We took on the task of working through your list of fine Berlin eateries. We had some fantastic food, so thank you. Unfortunately though chaos Theorie went out of business and fast rabbit has closed, due to the owner leaving Berlin. We cycled to these locations and were sad to see that they no longer existed. I don’t know whether you can amend this info, so no one else has a dsappointing end?
Best, Sean & Law
Bianca
Hi Sean & Law, thank you so much for the update! I have to say, it was quite a shock to me when you said chaos theorie went out of business, because I LOVE that place. I just checked their facebook page and they said that they are on holidays until mid of august, so they should open up any day now again. I truly hope they do. It’s one of my favorite places in Berlin. Of course, if I’ll hear otherwise, I’ll update the post.
As for the Fast Rabbit restaurant, I’m really sad to hear this, but it seems to be true that they really closed. I’ve updated the blogpost.
I hope you had a fantastic time in Berlin :)
Cheers,
Bianca