Buenos Aires runs sweet before savory: cake shows up at 20 venues, empanadas at 12, and churros at 5, with Ainara Helados Veganos anchoring the ice cream pick and Craft Vegan Bakery Palermo Hollywood leading the croissant lane. The five-star anchors lean cross-cuisine rather than purely Argentine, with Guille Veggie running Peruvian fusion and Vuena Comida Casera Vegana Belgrano covering Western-Mexican. Italian and American both sit 10 deep, so the real density is dessert and global comfort, not parrilla substitutes.
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength, and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
Try the medialunas and croissants, especially the dulce de leche filling
Try the mushroom sandwich with guacamole
Must go · #4 Try the dulce de leche and chocolate almond flavors
Must go · #6 Try the croissants rellenas (filled croissants)
Must go · #7 
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Must go · #12 Try the variety of vegan burgers and nuggets
Must go · #13 Try the vegan dulce de leche almond-filled churros
Must go · #14 
Must go · #15 Try the three varieties of vegan pizzas with non-dairy cheese
Dishes ranked by how well this city's plant-based venues make them, compared to the other 157 cities we track.
12 places worth stopping for empanada
Try the vegan "carnitas" tacos and empanadas
Try the empanadas, they're highly praised and well filled
Try the vegan empanadas, available in multiple tasty flavors
Try the empanadas, especially the chicken-almond cheese-mushroom variety
5 places worth stopping for churros
Try the vegan dulce de leche almond-filled churros
Try the almond and avocado-filled vegan churros
Try the dulce de almendras (almond dulce de leche) vegan filling
Try the almond and avocado-filled churros
20 places worth stopping for cake
Try the alfajores de maicena and medialunas
Try the medialunas and croissants, especially the dulce de leche filling
Expect limited vegan options, particularly at dinner
Try the Mediterranean sandwich with fermented cashew cheese and olive spread
spinach · Vegan Food Guide All 404 Buenos Aires venues on the map. Filter by what's open, save what you'd return for, get walking directions in two taps.
Completely plant-based kitchens. No swaps, no asking, no surprises.
Try the milanesa napolitana and empanadas
Try the mushroom sandwich with guacamole
Try the lemon pie and alfajores
Try the mushroom anticuchos appetizer
Mainstream restaurants where the vegan side of the menu is treated seriously.
Try the vegan dumplings
Try the variety of vegan burgers and nuggets
Try the vegan poke with avocado and edamame
Try the vegan fugazza pizza
Open before 10, good coffee, the kind of place you walk back to on day two.
Try the croissants rellenas (filled croissants)
Try the vegan croissants and pan au chocolat
Try the gluten-free pepas and buckwheat medialunas
Try the vegan "carnitas" tacos and empanadas
Weekday fuel and weekend stretches.
Try the milanesa napolitana and empanadas
Try the stuffed pastas with unique flavors like pumpkin and almond ricotta
Try the mushroom sandwich with guacamole
Try the vegan dumplings
The reason you planned the trip.
Try the arancini appetizer
Try the milanesa napolitana and empanadas
Try the degustation (tasting) menu to experience a variety of innovative dishes
Try the hummus, praised as the best by multiple reviewers
Date night. Birthday. Tell them you're celebrating.
Try the arancini appetizer
Try the degustation (tasting) menu to experience a variety of innovative dishes
Try the vegan poke with avocado and edamame
Make a reservation as the place is popular and busy especially in evenings.
Ice cream, pastry, and the honest dessert case.
Try the dulce de leche and chocolate almond flavors
Try the vegan ice cream flavors like banana split and chocolate
Enjoy a variety of original vegan flavors including coconut, maracuyá, and oreo
Try the pistachio vegan ice cream flavor
Quiet rooms, unhurried pace, under $$.
Wifi, outlets, no judgement for a 3-hour sit.
Busy rooms with tables big enough for eight.
Try the arancini appetizer
Try the variety of vegan burgers and nuggets
Try the milanesa napolitana and empanadas
Make a reservation as the place is popular and busy especially in evenings.
Menus kids recognize, staff who don't flinch at strollers.
Try the dulce de leche and chocolate almond flavors
Try the vegan dumplings
Try the vegan chocolate mint milhojas dessert
Try the empanadas, they're highly praised and well filled
Cities where the empanada signature also earns a spot in the top essentials — pack a weekend around one.
Yes — Buenos Aires has 404 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Gordo Vegano, Vake up, Vuena Comida Casera Vegana Belgrano. Spinach ranks them daily on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Buenos Aires scores 62.9/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 96 vegan-friendly venues and 75 high-quality restaurants out of 404 analyzed.
Buenos Aires has 78 fully vegan restaurants and 49 vegetarian restaurants. 96 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Buenos Aires's top signature dishes for vegans are empanada, churros, cake, and the city also does ice cream and croissant well. Signature dishes are ranked by how the city's venues score against the other 157 cities we track.
The vegan scene in Buenos Aires leans Italian, American. Italian is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Gordo Vegano is ranked #1 in Buenos Aires 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 using the same algorithm the mobile app runs: 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 ranking refreshes daily from Supabase. The last refresh is stamped at the top of this page. Venue data comes from Google Maps, HappyCow, and Spinach's own review-analysis pipeline.
