Pizza, pastries, fine dining: eating vegan in Berlin
A vegan tasting menu with a star at Bonvivant, grilled maitake at Oukan, pizza with house-made mozzarella at GEMELLO, tofu cheesecake at Soi & Co. and donuts at Brammibal’s: how Berlin eats vegan.
Eating vegan in Berlin stopped meaning going without a long time ago. At the five places here you often only notice on second glance that no animals are involved: a menu with a Michelin star, a pizzeria with its own mozzarella, a café that grinds its soy milk on stone mills.
Oukan – vegan cooking behind the red door
Mitte · VeganOukanOn the map
Behind a red door in a courtyard on Ackerstraße lies a room in shades of black, designed by founder Tran Mai Huy Thong, who comes from fashion design. The cooking is Japanese-inspired and fully vegan, with lots of ferments from its own lab: flatbread made from fermented sweet potato with mushroom XO, grilled maitake with plum glaze, buckwheat koji with house-made tempeh. A tea sommelière puts together the tea pairing for the six courses. If you want wine, there are wines from small growers.
GEMELLO – pizza by Helmholtzplatz
Prenzlauer Berg · ItalianGEMELLOOn the map
Stefan Kugler was an engineer before he started throwing pizza parties at home. In September 2024 he opened GEMELLO on Lettestraße with Idan Gilony, a pizzeria where everything is plant-based. The kitchen makes its own mozzarella, ricotta and feta from tapioca, fermented almonds or miso-marinated tofu. The standouts are the Boy with seaweed, olives, capers and wild oregano and the Nano Plate with three mini pizzas.
Bonvivant – a vegan menu with a star
Schöneberg · VeganBonvivant Cocktail BistroOn the map
Bonvivant on Goltzstraße received a Michelin star in 2023, at the time for vegetarian cooking. Since early 2026 the whole menu has been vegan, and Bonvivant was the first vegan restaurant in Berlin with a star. It also holds the green star for sustainability. The kitchen looks to Japan, Scandinavia and France, from blossoms to the fruit of conifers. In the evening the menu comes with a cocktail pairing, alcohol-free on request; at the weekend there is brunch.
Soi & Co. – all about the soybean
Mitte · CaféSoi & Co. Plant-Based CafeOn the map
Mengya Huang and Sibo Peng opened a shop on Linienstraße in 2019 dedicated entirely to the soybean. Stone mills stand in the entrance, grinding the beans into milk, and that soy milk goes into the coffee and matcha lattes. The cheesecakes are made from tofu, with black sesame or yuzu. A black sesame cheesecake and a matcha latte made with fresh soy milk go well together.
Brammibal’s Donuts – vegan without fuss
Neukölln · VeganBrammibal's DonutsOn the map
Bram and Jessica started at Berlin markets in 2015, and in 2016 opened the shop on Maybachufer, Europe’s first fully vegan donut shop. Today there are branches in Berlin, Hamburg and at BER airport, and the donuts are still baked fresh every morning. Alongside classics like Strawberry Sprinkles there are new flavours every month. Fifty cents of every Strawberry Sprinkles goes to charities; since 2018 that has added up to more than 500,000 euros.
