London settled the argument in 2025, when Plates in Shoreditch became the first plant-based restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star. It is not the only option. Alexis Gauthier turned Gauthier Soho fully vegan years ago, and the city's starred kitchens, from Pied a Terre to three-star Core by Clare Smyth, will build a full vegan tasting for anyone who asks at booking. Six rooms follow, ranked by how seriously each treats a plant-based diner, each with the spend to plan around and the exact way to request the menu.
For years the best vegan meal in London meant ordering the side dishes at a steakhouse. That ended with Plates, whose Michelin star proved a kitchen can win the top award without a single animal product. Around it sits a deeper bench: a two-star Cantonese room with a standing vegan dim sum menu, a three-star kitchen that composes a vegan tasting on notice, a Green Star greenhouse, and the grand dining room of a Piccadilly hotel that will plate a vegan menu for the table.
The list runs from the fully plant-based rooms to the starred kitchens that cook vegan on request, so a vegan diner can choose between a dedicated menu and a special-occasion adaptation. Every name links to its full review, with the price to budget and how to flag the menu. Start with the London dining guide for the wider city, and for the global field see the best vegan restaurants worldwide.
Vegan menu: the whole menu, eight courses around £109
Plates is the reason this list exists. Kirk Haworth, who cooked at The French Laundry and The Square before Lyme disease pushed him toward plants, runs the kitchen with his sister Keeley and in 2025 took the UK's first vegan Michelin star. The eight-course tasting is roughly £109, with a chef's counter seat near £125 and a house pairing around £75. It is fully plant-based, so nothing needs requesting. Book well ahead.
Vegan menu: dedicated tasting, about £85 to £160
David Moore's Charlotte Street room has held a Michelin star since 1993 and runs a separate vegan tasting that has been voted the best of its kind in the country. The format runs from three courses near £85 to seven courses around £160, with a vegan wine flight alongside. It is the most established vegan tasting in a classic French setting, and the kitchen treats it as a menu in its own right rather than a substitution. Note vegan when you reserve.
Vegan menu: the Chrysanthemum plant-based menu
Andrew Wong's two-star room near Victoria is the only restaurant at this level in London with a standing vegan dim sum menu, called Chrysanthemum. It moves through golden squash and lily bulb dumplings, black pepper shui mai with sugar snap and edamame, wild mushroom with black truffle, and a clay pot of tofu, aubergine and Japanese mushroom in black bean sauce. It is the most distinctive plant-based meal here, and the easiest two-star vegan table to plan.
Vegan menu: full tasting on request, with notice
Core is the grandest plant-based meal in the city. Clare Smyth's three-star room in Notting Hill, rated 98 out of 100 by La Liste for 2026, composes a complete vegan tasting when notified in advance, alongside the standard and vegetarian menus. The kitchen adapts rather than improvises, so give a few days' notice and the plant-based version arrives as a designed sequence. This is the splurge for a vegan diner who wants the full three-star occasion.
Vegan menu: dedicated set menu, two to four courses
Petersham Nurseries is the daylight-and-garden pick, a glasshouse restaurant in Richmond with a Michelin Green Star for sustainability. The Italian-leaning seasonal cooking runs a dedicated vegan set menu, two courses near £70 up to four with a cocktail around £95, served at lunch and dinner. It is the most relaxed room on this list, built for a long afternoon among the plants rather than a tasting-menu marathon, and the vegan option is printed rather than arranged.
Vegan menu: on request, jacket and tie
The Ritz is the formal route. John Williams MBE holds a Michelin star for classical French cooking in the most gilded dining room in London, and the kitchen prepares a three-course vegan menu for tables of up to six, with dishes such as potato boulangere with watercress and lovage and a dark chocolate ganache with banana and coconut. Jacket and tie are required. Request the vegan menu when you book and confirm a day or two ahead.
Two of these rooms make it simple: Plates is fully plant-based and Petersham Nurseries prints a vegan menu, so nothing needs requesting. A. Wong's Chrysanthemum menu is a standing option you can choose at booking. At Pied a Terre flag the vegan tasting when you reserve, and at Core by Clare Smyth and The Ritz give several days' notice and use the word vegan rather than vegetarian, since butter, cream and stock run through classical cooking. Plan the occasion with the best restaurants for an anniversary guide, or browse the best vegetarian restaurants worldwide for a wider plant-forward field.
Plates in Shoreditch is the one. In 2025 it became the first plant-based restaurant in the UK to win a Michelin star, under chef Kirk Haworth, who trained at The French Laundry and The Square before moving to vegan cooking. The eight-course tasting is roughly £109, with a chef's counter at about £125. It is fully vegan, so the whole menu qualifies. See the full Plates review and book well ahead.
Yes. Pied a Terre in Fitzrovia runs a dedicated vegan tasting that has been voted the best in the country, separate from its standard menu. It runs from three courses near £85 to seven courses around £160, with a vegan wine flight available. The one-star kitchen treats it as a full menu rather than a set of swaps. Flag vegan when you reserve so the kitchen can plan the sequence and the pairing.
Plates is the pick, the only fully vegan Michelin-starred room in the city. For a starred meal with a standing plant-based menu, A. Wong serves vegan dim sum as its Chrysanthemum menu, and Pied a Terre runs the most established vegan tasting. For the grandest occasion, three-star Core by Clare Smyth composes a vegan tasting on request. Start with the London dining guide to plan around them.
It tracks each kitchen's standard tasting price, since the work is the same. Plates is around £109 for eight courses, Pied a Terre runs £85 to £160 by length, and Petersham Nurseries is gentler at £70 to £95. The three-star Core by Clare Smyth and The Ritz sit at the top of the range. Confirm current pricing when you book, and budget separately for wine or a vegan pairing.
Yes, with notice. Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill composes a full vegan tasting when you tell them in advance, alongside its standard and vegetarian menus. The Ledbury and other top rooms will also adapt, but a designed vegan menu beats an improvised one, so give several days' notice. For a dedicated rather than adapted experience, Plates is fully plant-based. See the Core by Clare Smyth review.
Menus and prices verified against each restaurant's published information in June 2026; confirm vegan availability directly when you book. Restaurants for Kings is editorial, not sponsored. Some reservation links may earn an affiliate commission, which never affects a ranking or a score.