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Add rosemary fries to your order; reviewers particularly praise their crisp outside and soft centre.
15 essentials · 3 signature dishes
15 essentials
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
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Add rosemary fries to your order; reviewers particularly praise their crisp outside and soft centre.

Vegan Doughnuts, Coffee, Panini
$$
Worth ordering: #1 Donut

Pancakes, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for families

Taiwanese Bao, Vegan Options
$$
The vibe: good for groups

Specialty Coffee, Vegan Pastries
$$
Worth ordering: #1 Pastry

Korean Tofu, Vegan Bibimbap
$
The vibe: good for families

Vegan Mains, Build-a-Plate
$
The vibe: good for families

Creative Tapas, Vegan Menu
$$$
The vibe: good for dates

Specialty Coffee, Vegan Cakes
$$
Worth ordering: #4 Coffee

Sri Lankan Curries, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for groups
Vegan Whippy, Gelato & Sorbet
$
The vibe: good for families

Wood-Fired Plates, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for dates

Vegan Breakfast, Toastie Melts
$$
The vibe: good for families

Pan-Asian, Vegan Menu, Tofu
$$
The vibe: good for dates

Mediterranean Small Plates, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for dates
3 signature dishes
The dishes Brighton's reviews name most and praise hardest, each ranked by how reviewers rate the vegan version.
signature #1

Pub Roasts, Vegan Menu
$$
Worth ordering: #1 Sunday roast

British Pub, Vegan Roasts
$$
Worth ordering: #2 Sunday roast

Pub, Vegan Sausages, Sunday Roast
$$
Worth ordering: #3 Sunday roast

Thai Pub, Vegan Sunday Roast
$$
Worth ordering: #4 Sunday roast

British Pub, Vegan Roast
$$
Worth ordering: #5 Sunday roast
signature #2
Vegan Filled Doughnuts
$$
Worth ordering: #2 Donut

Bakery, Vegan Pastries, Sourdough
$$
Worth ordering: #3 DonutWorth ordering: #4 Pain au chocolat

Vegan Doughnuts, Selection Boxes
$$
Worth ordering: #4 Donut

Bakery, Vegan Sausage Rolls
$
Worth ordering: #5 Donut
signature #3

Bakery, Vegan Pastries
$$
Worth ordering: #1 Pain au chocolatWorth ordering: #2 Pastry

Bakery, Vegan Pastries
$$
Worth ordering: #2 Pain au chocolatWorth ordering: #5 Pastry

Vegan Croissants, Custom Cakes
$$
Worth ordering: #3 Pain au chocolatWorth ordering: #4 Pastry

Vegan Brunch, Roasted Coffee
$$
Worth ordering: #5 Pain au chocolat
9 places

Asian Small Plates, Fully Vegan
$$$
The vibe: good for dates
10 places

Mexican Street Food, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for dates

Vegan Nori Tacos, Sushi
$$
The vibe: good for groups
8 places

Cafe, Vegan Pastries, Toasties
$$
The vibe: good for work & study

Brunch, Vegan French Toast
$$
The vibe: good for work & study
8 places

Lebanese Wraps, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for groups
8 places

Gujarati Small Plates, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for dates
6 places

Japanese, Vegan Sushi & Mains
$$$
The vibe: good for dates

Balinese, Vegan Tofu Satay
$$$
The vibe: good for dates

Tofu, Vegan Wellington
$$$
The vibe: good for dates
10 places

Coffee, Vegan Banana Bread
$
Worth ordering: #1 Coffee

Cafe, Vegan Skillets & Toasties
$$
The vibe: good for relaxing
10 places
8 places

Peruvian, Vegan Anticuchos
$$
The vibe: good for dates

Taiwanese Dumplings, Vegan Food
$$
The vibe: good for groups
8 places

Vegan Toasties, Mezze
$$
The vibe: good for work & study
10 places
10 places

Kurdish Mezze, Vegan Baklava
$
The vibe: good for relaxing

Vegan Breakfast, Pancakes
$
The vibe: good for groups
8 places
12 places

Sourdough Pizza, Fully Vegan
$$
Worth ordering: #1 Pizza

Detroit Pizza, Vegan Pies
$$
Worth ordering: #2 Pizza

Italian Pizza, Vegan Menu
$$
Worth ordering: #3 Pizza
7 places

Specialty Coffee, Vegan Bakes
$
Worth ordering: #2 CoffeeWorth ordering: #3 Pastry
7 places

Coffee, Vegan Hot Chocolate
$$
Worth ordering: #3 Coffee
10 places
10 places

Italian Pasta, Vegan Menu
$$
The vibe: good for dates
10 places

Vegan Breakfast, Pancakes
$$
The vibe: good for groups
Vegan Whippy, Falafel & Chips
$$
The vibe: good for relaxing
other cities
Cities where sunday roast is a signature dish too.
Yes — Brighton has 331 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Fatto a Mano Hove, Glazed, Nowhere Man. Spinach ranks them on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Brighton scores 74.2/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 65 vegan-friendly venues and 96 high-quality restaurants out of 331 analyzed.
Brighton has 16 fully vegan restaurants and 17 vegetarian restaurants. 65 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Brighton's top signature dishes for vegans are sunday roast, donut, pain au chocolat, and the city also does ice cream and pizza well. Signature dishes are ranked by how the city's venues score against the other 157 cities we track.
The vegan scene in Brighton leans British, Asian, American. British is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Fatto a Mano Hove is ranked #1 in Brighton by the Spinach Essentials algorithm, which weights rating, signature dish performance, and reviewer praise. See all 15 Essentials for the full ranking.
Spinach ranks vegan venues by formula: a composite of Google Maps rating, the Spinach Rating (Wilson-confidence scored), dish-quality Wilson scores from extracted review signals, and city-specific signature dish strength. Essentials add a tier weighting; category lists add their own mood/occasion weights. No pay-to-play.
The last refresh is stamped at the foot of this page. Rankings come from public reviews on Google Maps and HappyCow, read by Spinach's own analysis. We never republish the reviews themselves.