Vegan Dining in Denver

WaterCourse Foods is Denver’s original vegan restaurant since 1998. Our style of vegan comfort food has won over the hearts and stomachs of people from all types of dietary backgrounds. The greatest compliment we hear (and we hear it often) is when an initially reluctant patron says that they never thought they would eat vegan food, and now WaterCourse is their favorite restaurant. WaterCourse Food’s philosophy, like our food, is simple and accessible. We work to create an atmosphere that welcomes everyone. We prepare fresh ingredients daily to produce incredibly satisfying vegan comfort foods in a welcoming environment served by a friendly and efficient wait staff for a reasonable price. By maintaining a completely vegan menu, we believe we minimize our environmental footprint and provide a welcome alternative to many restaurants in the city. In addition to the food we serve and vendors we choose, WaterCourse Foods is dedicated to reducing our negative environmental impact by recycling everything we can, and our to-go containers are completely biodegradable.

We serve all needs to all people. We’ve got breakfast, lunch, dinner, late night, patio, specialty coffee, and a craft beer, wine and cocktail bar. Eclectic and repurposed decor, fun and friendly staff. Whether you need a latte at 7am or a whiskey at 1:30am, we are here for you. We use local produce whenever possible, and even have our own urban micro farm which provides much of our produce in the summer. We pair with other local vendors, from coffee to beer to cheese, to ensure their success as well. We support local artists by having monthly in-house gallery shows, and we are often feeding travelers such as musicians, poets, politicians; the doers and makers of the world. Come be a part of our community!

Rooted in Denver, Colorado, we make a variety of baked goods, all from scratch with minimally processed ingredients, without dairy, meat, or eggs.

Vital Root offers plant-focused dishes alongside a wholesome juicing program and ayurvedic-inspired menu designed in collaboration with neighbors Vital Center for Mind-Body Health. The entire menu will utilize herbs grown on premise, spices, and healthy, alternative flours and sweeteners—making vegetables sexy and accessible for all.

Milkbox Ice Creamery opened July 12, 2014 in the newly renovated Union Station in Denver. Located in the former barbershop space adjacent to the Great Hall, Milkbox stocks sixteen flavors of ice cream from Little Man Ice Cream, available as shakes, malts, sundaes, cones and cups. One of the most perfectly preserved spaces in the historic building, this charming shop features the original large mirrors, terrazzo floor and subway tiles.

Sweet Cooie’s Ice Cream and Chocolates is a classically inspired confectionery located in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver, CO

Cinnaholic takes cinnamon rolls to gourmet levels with rolls topped with flavored frostings and toppings of your choice. As seen on ABC’s hit show, SHARK TANK! Award-winning gourmet cinnamon rolls with over 30 different frosting flavors and a variety of different toppings. This is not your typical cinnamon roll shop. In addition to being 100% vegan, Cinnaholic offers more than just your average ‘Old Fashioned’ roll. We have a variety of different flavors that are waiting to be explored, all made with the highest quality ingredients to tickle your taste buds. All of the products are: Dairy & lactose-free, egg-free and cholesterol-free.

We are a vegan bakery that provides pastries, cakes, bread, and gluten-free baked goods to the public and a number of local restaurants and takes special orders. In addition to taking special orders and selling treats in our bakery, we also sell our pastries at City O’ City every day. We offer a selection of freshly baked breakfast pastries every morning, such as muffins, scones, biscuits and our sweet potato cinnamon rolls, and put out a daily cupcake, mini cupcake and sugar cookie. Most of these are available in both traditional and gluten-free flours.

Berriegood Co. is Denver’s very first locally-owned, authentic superfruit café specializing in handcrafted açaí berry bowls, smoothies & more.

Denver’s first all-vegan food truck! Check out where Vegan Van will be near you at http://www.veganvan.com/calendar

Marquis Pizza was established in 2005 by the production company Soda Jerk. We have since perfected our art of pizza making. We use the highest quality ingredients while maintaining an affordable price. We are connected to the Marquis Theater and cater to the concerts and bands. We also cater to the vegetarian and vegan community. We work hard to ensure that you get the best pizza in the city!

Serving up the best wings this side of Buffalo!

Curry dishes dominate the menu at this Indian spot with tight quarters & brightly hued decor.

Eclectic Asian cuisine from Korea to Thailand served in a snug Hindu- & Buddhist-inspired setting.

We want to offer vegan friendly and quality shaved snow to the Denver area! SNOWLAB serves shaved snow that is made with the highest quality ingredients. Customers can customize their toppings on fine and fluffy shaved snow that will melt upon contact in your mouth. We are proud to be the first to introduce Colorado to the West Coast’s hottest desserts. SNOWLAB is the first of its kind to deliver an alternative to ice cream and frozen yogurt that can be enjoyed guilt-free. Prepare yourself for a new and refreshing dessert experience that will leave you craving more! Follow us on social media for secret flavor announcements.

Our cozy restaurant has the feel of a hole in the wall, but our authentic Ethiopian dishes are packed with flavor and unrivaled in town. We’ve got meals that are both vegetarian and vegan-friendly. We invite you to stop by Abyssinia today and taste truly authentic, delicious Ethopian cuisine!

Voodoo Doughnut’s 4th location serves the same crazy and classic doughnuts that Voodoo is well known for.

Mexican Restaurant with Vegetarian and Vegan Options

Tasty Harmony is committed to provide our community with healthy organic plant based cuisine. Most of our food is vegan and most of our desserts are wheat free and sugarcane free.

Anti-entree, vegetable-focused, affordable small plates. Serves drinks, soups and sandwiches and more. A handful of items can be made vegan by request.

Free WiFi – Espresso – Gluten Free Menu – Patio – Fire Pits

Root Down aims to connect the neighborhood to a dining experience in the same way ingredients are connected to food.

Sweet Action Ice Cream is made by hand with fresh and fine ingredients. A traditional ice cream shop with a few vegan options and flavors that rotate regularly.

Old-school counter-serve with a sidewalk patio presenting classic Chicago frankfurters & fries, with a few vegan options!

Vintage-style late-night hangout dishing up unique vegan-friendly eats.

Our customers enjoy hanging out on our colorful patio or spacious counter area while they savor their treats or sample that curious flavor they’ve been wondering about. High Point Creamery is perfect for the classic ice cream date, family outing, pit stop on your way home from the park, after school snack, business dinner, or any other time you’re craving the finest, handcrafted ice cream on this side of the Rockies. Check our website for our flavor selection and thorough product descriptions. We care about detail and cleanliness because it makes your experience that much better. Come on in, smell the freshly made waffle cones, coffee beans, and indulge yourself for once!

Serving vegan comfort food to the Five Points neighborhood. Open 7 AM to 3 PM for your breakfast and lunch needs.

Rosenberg’s Bagels and Delicatessen is an authentic bagel store in Denver, Colorado that specializes in the best New York City-style bagels outside of the tri-state area. Our bagels are prepared using traditional New York City methods paired with the finest local and natural ingredients and specially replicated New York City water. We serve fast, fresh, hot or cold bagel sandwiches, bagels by the dozen, in addition to vegan-friendly spreads and high-end coffee products.

We serve delicious crafts beers and fresh artisan pizzas. Hops & Pie takes pride in serving local Colorado craft beer, but we also serve craft beer from all over the nation and the world. Try our artisan pie of the month, or make your own pizza with our fresh toppings. We also offer wheat and gluten free crust, and have a myriad of vegan toppings, as well as other vegan dishes on our menu.

A modern day bakery with a nostalgic twist.

Yes! We make it here! We are absolutely passionate about ice cream, which is why we make all our flavors right here in the store.

Eighty years. It is the time between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama, the distance between a dirt road and a digital highway, the difference between a World War and a War on Terror. For four generations of our family, it is time spent cultivating what was once a weed lot into a small, cherished business. Three quarters of a century we have been here, yet we seem hardly changed for it. While the world is a different place indeed, we at Bonnie Brae Tavern are still awash in our whitewash and turquoise vinyl, much the way we were when we opened our doors in 1934. It was the year of a great migration west to escape the Dust Bowl, the year in which Babe Ruth would become the first man to hit 700 home runs in the still innocent game of professional baseball. Far from all that, a Yankees’ fan named Carl Dire had his own small dream. He surveyed the empty land next to the gas station he owned at University Boulevard and Ohio Avenue. To the east lay sagebrush as far as the eye could see, interrupted by a dairy farm here and there. To the west were the modest bungalows of a proper, young neighborhood named Washington Park, whose upstanding residents were steadfast in their support of Prohibition. But times were changing, Prohibition was over, and Mr. Dire was not a man to be told no. Only a stubborn man, a son of Italian immigrants, orphaned by a flu epidemic and raised by his North Denver relations, would have had the moxie, the outright gall, to open a bar caddy corner from the residence of local Temperance leaders. Carl and wife, Sue, named their fledgling if not wholly unwelcome tavern after the empty housing development surrounding it. It would be a while before “Bonnie Brae,” Gaelic for “Pleasant Hill,” grew into its name as well. Far from the gold standard of Denver real estate that it is today, the disgraced development had gone bankrupt a few years earlier and would stand idle for a few more. The Dires hardly noticed time pass as they worked, day and night, through a long, long Depression. They would put their young sons to sleep on a mattress in the back of a Model A parked behind the restaurant, then drive home to North Denver in the wee hours of the night, only to turn around a few hours later and do it all over again, day after day, until they could afford to build a modest apartment upstairs from the bar. The end of World War II finally came, and with it, prosperity at last. Now the couple could afford a house, not an apartment, across the parking lot from the restaurant. They sent both sons, Mike and Hank, to college before both young men took their own places in the family business. The Bonnie Brae Tavern doubled the size of its dining room and added an extravagant new item: Pizza. As new roads and street signs sprouted in the neighborhood, you became our customers and friends. You were a student at the University of Denver, or a gas station attendant next door, or a Polo Club millionaire from down the street. We looked for you once a month, once a week, once a day. You were the hen-pecked husband who would mow his lawn and keep on pushing, all the way to our door, abandoning the mower outside for a seat at the bar and a cold beer. Or the cable television magnate who would “tip the girl” $100 for prompt service and a pizza cooked just right. Or the construction worker who ordered the same sausage and cheese sandwich so often we finally named it after him: The Don Wright. May its namesake rest in peace. Three quarters of a century has passed, and you’re still coming, not just for the food, the food is a small part of it now. You come to propose marriage, wait out power outages, let your kids burn off steam after their soccer games, to grouse about the Broncos, celebrate a job promotion, mark a birthday, a birth, a death. You have been there for us as much as we’ve been there for you. After Carl Dire died in 1982 you were there, drinking a shot of whiskey at the bar in his honor. You paid your respects to Sue in 2002, showering flowers and cards on the booth where she took her meals twice a day, almost until the day she died. Your loyal patronage has allowed Carl Dire’s grandchildren, Michael and Ricky, and now his great-grandchildren, Teresa, Pat and Chris, to have a part in his dream. And for that, we thank you. So please, sit down and put up your feet. Tell your waitress if you need us to turn up the volume on the game. Don’t worry if the kids climb on the seats or slide under the table, as countless children have, and will. Most of all, take time to enjoy yourself in a place where time is not nearly as significant as the memories that inhabit it. Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. -Marcel Proust Story By Angela Dire

Popular Denver restaurant Root Down’s award-winning food and a progressive design aesthetic to Denver International Airport’s Concourse C.

Dedicated to serving fresh, natural, and organic vegetarian and vegan cuisine that delights the palate, promotes good health and wellbeing and nourishes the body, mind and spirit. Come, experience our delicious tastes and candle glow vibrations… and feel goodlness.

Casper & Gambini’s is an internationally franchised restaurant-café with regional headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The award-winning chain, with several locations in Cairo and around the Middle East, has vegan options including soups, spring rolls, and quinoa salads.

Our mission is to promote healthy practices for you and the planet food. Kimpira (Valencia) was born in 2002 after many years of research as a space to reinterpret macrobiotic cooking and make that cooking available to everyone. Since then, we have worked to disseminate healthy practices and intelligent food. In our daily menus you’ll find delicious dishes made with 100% organic ingredients, some from our garden, that we cook only with filtered and purified water, sweeten only with rice syrup. Kimpira is committed to the planet. Climate change occurs on the plate.

Organic neighborhood juicery & vegetarian cafe specializing in cold pressed juice

Love, Peace & Sol Cafe is Denver’s premiere vegan-friendly soul catering. At LPSC, Soul Food is not limited to just American Soul Food, we also include foods from all over the African Diaspora.

We are a lil cafe on East Colfax, serving up locally roasted coffees, espresso drinks, smoothies, burritos, beer, wine, Bhakti and Sanctuary Chai, housemade kahlua, and a fully stocked whiskey bar! Not to mention, our bakers make the best treats around, all in-house and fresh. Gluten free and vegan options. Open 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. Check out our back patio and secret basement!

Serving tasty vegan delights, including soft serve, shakes, floats, candy bars and several flavors of frozen lemonade. During day long events, we offer hot savory foods like vegan hot dogs and vegan meatball subs.

Chinese takeaway food with plenty of vegan options, including dishes with tofu.

Denver‰’s original gourmet cupcake bakery with vegan options. Decadence from scratch, and so many to choose from! Using the finest, freshest ingredients, we craft each cake by hand into a scrumptious delicacy with whimsical elegance. It‰’s old fashioned TLC, and it‰Ûªs so worth it. Perfect for all occasions, all ages. Weddings. Birthdays. Charity Events. Business Gifts. Book Club. Just give us a call ‰because everyone deserves a little sugar.

With its tantalizing food, large wine & cocktail selection, and friendly service, The Bombay Clay Oven in Cherry Creek North has been able to stand out among all the other Indian restaurants for more than 13 years. The imaginative use of spices is what sets Bombay Clay Oven apart from other restaurants. Perhaps the most pleasant discovery that one makes is that although always seasoned perfectly, the food is not necessarily spicy.

Ice cream shop with a selection of vegan flavors including sorbet that rotate regularly.

A family owned business with a full vegetarian menu

WEATHERVANE CAFE Serious Coffee & Homemade Food.

The Rebellion is your new neighborhood restaurant. Locally owned and operated and opened in revolt to the way fast food is done.

Delicious made from scratch vegan food for everyone.