16 Best Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants in Barcelona

Cat Bar is the one almost everyone who eats plant-based in Barcelona ends up at sooner or later, and it's been doing the same thing well for years: 100% vegan, casual, burger-led, with local craft beer and wine. It's often described as one of the city's earliest dedicated vegan bar-restaurants, and you can feel that lived-in confidence the moment you sit down. The burgers are the anchor, served with bravas or salad, and they're proper plant-based burgers rather than a sad afterthought. Everything's affordable, with the loaded burger-and-bravas plates landing around 13 euros, and there are gluten-free options if you need them. It's small, it's friendly, and it's the safest first recommendation we can make to anyone landing in town who wants to eat vegan without thinking too hard about it.

Teresa Carles is the vegetarian sit-down restaurant that anchors the whole scene. Open since 2011 and run under founder-chef Teresa Carles Borras, it works to a concept the kitchen calls VMAHT: vegetarian, Mediterranean, artisanal, healthy, tasty. In practice that means a long menu of Catalan and Mediterranean dishes reworked meat-free, with plenty of vegan options and a fresh juice and kombucha bar. The croquettes are a thing here, from mushroom to Catalan black sausage style, and the Bombas de la Barceloneta and Les Bravas de la Teresa show how the kitchen handles familiar tapas without the meat. It's polished without being precious, the kitchen runs non-stop through the day, and you'll usually pay around 30 euros a head before drinks. This is the dining room that proved meat-free could be a destination in Barcelona, not a niche.

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Xavier Pellicer holds a Repsol 2 Soles and a Michelin Selected listing, which makes it the most decorated vegetable-led kitchen on this list. Chef Xavier Pellicer puts seasonal, organic, locally sourced vegetables at the absolute centre of the plate, with the grill, wok, and spices doing the heavy lifting. The thing that sets it apart, and the reason strict vegans can eat here with confidence, is that every tasting menu comes in three versions: vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore. That flexibility is rare at this level. There's an 8-course menu at 105 euros and a 5-course at 85, with an a la carte option at lunch from Wednesday to Sunday. The wine list runs biodynamic, organic, and natural, which fits the whole philosophy. If you want to understand how serious Barcelona is about vegetables, start here.

Asante is the plant-based brunch spot that's built a serious following. It's entirely vegan, so no meat, fish, dairy, or eggs anywhere, and it works the daytime format: breakfast and lunch plates, good coffee, dessert. The coffee program alone is worth the trip, running from espresso through golden lattes, matcha, and chai, and the brunch plates do the familiar daytime spread reworked without any animal products. It sits in Poble-sec, a neighbourhood that's quietly become one of the best eating districts in the city, and it's the kind of place you go for a long, slow weekend morning rather than a rushed coffee. If brunch is your thing and you eat plant-based, this is near the top of the pile in Barcelona.

Fronda Pasaje is where plant-based cooking goes properly fine-dining. It carries both a Michelin Selected listing and a Repsol Recomendado, and chef Máximo Cabrera runs a kitchen that treats vegetables with the same technique and precision you'd expect at any high-end spot. The menu is built around a la carte dishes and two set menus, and Michelin inspectors have singled out the trompe l'oeil plates that blend science and creativity, dishes designed to look like one thing and taste like another. Expect courses like the forest butter with sesame bread, the mixed ceviche, and a passion-fruit chocolate mousse to finish. It's the pick when you want to show a sceptic that plant-based can be genuinely ambitious, technical, and surprising rather than worthy.

Virens is the veg-forward heavyweight, a Michelin Selected and Repsol Recomendado kitchen inside a hotel in the Eixample, with Rodrigo de la Calle and Giovanni Esteve at the helm. The cooking centres vegetables and greens as the protagonists of every course, with seafood and meat appearing only in supporting roles, so strict vegans should flag their needs when booking. The style is contemporary Mediterranean built on proximity products, and it's served across three tasting menus: the 8-step Gastrobotanic, the 9-step Land and Sea, and the full 15-step Mediterranean Experience. Dishes like teardrop peas with poached egg and celery foam, or confit and fried artichokes with roasted potato foam, show how far vegetables can be pushed when a kitchen this good makes them the point. A standout for a special occasion.

Desoriente is the vegan Asian specialist, and it holds a Repsol Solete to back up its reputation. The whole kitchen is 100% plant-based, working across tapas, sushi, ramen, noodles, and curries. The signatures are clever: a Kiss Me Ramen built on a dashi-coconut broth, a Ceviche Kilawin of oyster-mushroom sashimi, a Tikka Masala Protein Bao, and a Foie Gras Roll made with house-fermented cashew cheese. There's a proper drinks side too, with seasonal cocktails, natural wines, and homemade kombucha. It sits in Poblenou, and it's the spot to send anyone who thinks vegan food can't do umami, technique, or genuine cravability. The sushi and the ramen are where it really shows off.

Vrutal is the vegan burger you bring people to when you want to settle the argument. It's fully plant-based, built around gourmet burgers and composed bowls, with a full drinks side of wine, beer, cocktails, and coffee. The patties are the point, and the lineup goes well beyond a single token option: the Blind Date, the French Kiss, a Banh Mi, a Jackfruit Pibil, and a BBQ Pulled Mushroom Bap, most available gluten-free on request. The sides hold their own too, from crispy cauliflower wings to a hummus they cheekily call the best this side of Beirut. It's casual, generous, and reliably good in Poblenou, and it's exactly the kind of plant-based comfort food that converts the unconvinced.

Potstot does something almost no one else attempts: Catalan and Mediterranean rice cooking, paella included, built with no gluten and no animal products at all. That's a genuinely useful niche, because it means coeliacs and vegans can eat the same table together without anyone compromising. The kitchen leans on vegetables and plant-based ingredients across the board, with a spread of small plates to start: a spicy plant-based sobrasada, a house hummus, fermented cashew cheese, gluten-free bread with tomato, and croquettes with ceps and black truffle. The rice is the headline, but the snacks are worth lingering over. It's in El Raval, prices are gentle, and it's the rare place where the gluten-free and vegan labels are both total rather than partial.

Gallo Santo is Barcelona's vegan Mexican specialist, doing Veg-Mex entirely plant-based in Vila de Gracia. The menu is built on the corn-and-chilli backbone of real Mexican cooking: tacos, burritos, and bowls, plus a cocktail program centred on tequila. The tacos are where it shines, with a Carrot Tinga, a Yaka Al Pibil, an Al Pastor, and a Tofish version all done without animal products, and there's a Quesabirrias for anyone craving something rich and dippable. The bigger plates run from a Naked Burrito Bowl to the Gallo Santo Fajitas. It's lively, the cocktails are good, and it's proof that you don't lose anything taking the meat out of Mexican food when the kitchen knows what it's doing.

Flax & Kale Tallers is the flexitarian flagship that pushed plant-led eating into the mainstream in Barcelona. The concept is 80% plant-based and 20% oily fish, with no meat or dairy, so it's veg-forward rather than strictly vegetarian, and it's worth knowing that going in. It belongs to the Teresa Carles family of projects, and the kitchen is ambitious: a Flax & Kale pizza on a gluten-free base with cashew cheese, poke bowls, Thai green curry, pad thai, black truffle croquettes, and a signature black rice baked with house vegetable stock, black garlic, and mushrooms. The cold-pressed juices, kombuchas, and smoothies are all made in-house, and weekend brunch runs Saturday and Sunday. A big, buzzy, all-day spot that's as good for a working lunch as a long brunch.

Velada is the vegan tapas-and-cocktails spot, and it's the easy answer when you want to take your omnivore friends somewhere everyone will be happy. It's fully plant-based, working the Spanish small-plates format built for sharing across a table, so you order a spread rather than one big plate each. The lineup is fun: Bravas Velada, teriyaki skewers, tikka masala cauliflower, Padron peppers, a hummus of the day, and tacos with guacamole or barbecue filling. There's a cocktail side to make it a proper night out. It sits in the Gothic Quarter, the plates are cheap enough to keep ordering, and the whole thing feels like normal Barcelona tapas culture that just happens to be entirely vegan. No one at the table feels short-changed.

La Perra Verde is the Gracia neighbourhood vegan spot, and it's exactly the kind of place you wish was on your own street. It's fully plant-based and works the tapas format, lots of little dishes meant to be shared and grazed across rather than one plate each. The range is genuinely playful: a Cheese Board and a Vermouth Board to start, a truffled tortilla, kimchi potatoes, cauliflower popcorn, croquettes of the day, and heartier plates like a vegan milanesa or a No-Chicken sandwich. There are bowls too if you want something more composed. It's casual, affordable, and warm, the sort of low-key local where you settle in and keep ordering one more thing. A great choice if you're staying up in Gracia.

Mad Mad Vegan is plant-based American comfort food done with a straight face, in the Eixample. It's fully vegan, so the diner-style format runs entirely without meat or dairy, and the menu is unashamedly indulgent. Burgers start around 13 euros, with the Mad Signature and the Double Cheese Vacon doing the heavy lifting, and the starters are half the fun: Mad Tequenos filled with melted vegan cheese, crunchy chick'n nuggets, crispy fried calamari done with battered vegan squid, and buffalo cauliflower wings. There are salads too, like the Vegan Cesar, if you want to pretend you're being good. It's loud, generous, and a little bit silly in the best way, and it's the spot for when you want comfort food with zero compromise.

Sesamo is the El Raval vegetarian veteran, a long-standing neighbourhood spot that's been part of the conversation for years. The kitchen is fully vegetarian with vegan options throughout, and the format leans on tasting boards built for sharing alongside a list of mains, with wine, beer, and cocktails to go with it. It's the opposite of a slick concept rollout: small, characterful, and run with the kind of consistency that keeps a place going long after the trend-chasers have moved on. If you want a relaxed, unpretentious vegetarian dinner in the old city without a tasting-menu commitment or a queue, this is a reliable, well-loved choice that's earned its spot.

Fat Veggies closes the list as the modern vegetarian spot with a Repsol Solete and a real point of view. The kitchen cooks all its food over fire, using robata grills, slow smoking, and open flame, which gives the vegetables a char and depth you don't usually get from a meat-free kitchen. The short a la carte runs seasonal croquettes, fat tacos with romesco, chickpea blinis, charred carrots, and a Thai green curry with kale, and there's a Veggie Tasting Menu at 45 euros with an optional local wine pairing for 24 more. There's a serious in-house fermentation program too, run by a Belgian fermentologist, turning out kombucha, pickles, and ferments. It was founded by chef Juancho Martini, and you can taste the fine-dining pedigree. Around 35 euros a head before drinks.