Edinburgh's 473-venue map runs on bakeries before anything tartan, with Babyfaced Baker and Room and Rumours Coffee anchoring the five-star lineup alongside FacePlant Foods and Hummus. Breakfast still lands on 11 menus and haggis on 8, but cinnamon rolls match haggis at 8 venues, and the real depth sits in the 10-deep British and Italian rosters, with Salerno Pizza topping the pizza cut and FacePlant Foods owning burgers.
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength, and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
Must go · #4 Try the biscoff cinnamon bun, a highly praised vegan pastry
Must go · #5 Try the build-your-own vegan pizza with a wide range of toppings
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Must go · #9 Try the vegetable momos and pani puri, as they are popular and highly recommended.
Must go · #10 Try the vanilla slice and peanut butter cookie sandwich
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Must go · #15 Try the Rabbit The Bruce burger with hash browns and haggis
Dishes ranked by how well this city's plant-based venues make them, compared to the other 157 cities we track.
8 places worth stopping for cinnamon roll
Try the biscoff cinnamon bun, a highly praised vegan pastry
Try the vegan cinnamon buns, highly praised for fluffiness and flavor
Try the cinnamon buns and vegan bagels
Try the avocado toast with dukkah, it is highly recommended
8 places worth stopping for haggis
Try the homemade vegan sausages and haggis, highly praised by many reviewers
Try the vegan Scottish breakfast with vegan haggis and black pudding
Try the vegan haggis with whiskey mustard sauce
Try the vegan haggis, often praised as one of the best in Scotland
11 places worth stopping for breakfast
Enjoy the artisan coffee with oat milk and latte art
Try the vegan breakfast with maple miso mushrooms and vegan haggis fritters
Try the vegan Scottish breakfast with vegan haggis and black pudding
Try the full vegan Scottish breakfast with haggis and black pudding
spinach · Vegan Food Guide All 473 Edinburgh 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.
Mainstream restaurants where the vegan side of the menu is treated seriously.
Try the vegetable momos and pani puri, as they are popular and highly recommended.
Try the build-your-own vegan pizza with a wide range of toppings
Try the lion’s mane mushroom dishes
Try the vegan breakfast rolls, especially the one with vegan link sausage and hash brown
Open before 10, good coffee, the kind of place you walk back to on day two.
Enjoy the variety of vegan sweet and savoury pastries
Try the biscoff cinnamon bun, a highly praised vegan pastry
Try the vegan cinnamon bun
Try the haggis melt sandwich
Weekday fuel and weekend stretches.
The reason you planned the trip.
Date night. Birthday. Tell them you're celebrating.
Where the coffee is the reason to come.
Ice cream, pastry, and the honest dessert case.
Try the filled doughnuts like Oreo and biscoff for top flavors
Enjoy the variety of vegan sweet and savoury pastries
Try the double potato roll for a filling and tasty snack
Look for clearly marked vegan and gluten-free baked goods
Wifi, outlets, no judgement for a 3-hour sit.
Try the vegan waffles with a variety of toppings like vegan Nutella and whipped cream
Enjoy homemade vegan cakes like empire biscuit and chocolate truffle
Try the vegan full Scottish breakfast
Try the clearly labeled vegan sweets
Busy rooms with tables big enough for eight.
Menus kids recognize, staff who don't flinch at strollers.
Try the mezze maniche alla carbonara for a popular vegan pasta dish
Try the vegan lasagna and vegan pizza
Try the Shire and The Thing pizzas with vegan pepperoni and jalapeños
Try the vegan pizzas with vegan mozzarella for authentic flavor
Try the Tibetan momos filled with vegetables
Try the variety of pakoras, especially cauliflower and mushroom.
Try the khasta kachori and bombaiya ragda for varied textures and rich flavors
Try the masala dosa and onion pakoda, frequent favorites noted by many guests.
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Yes — Edinburgh has 473 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Babyfaced Baker, FacePlant Foods, Hummus. Spinach ranks them daily on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Edinburgh scores 75.6/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 76 vegan-friendly venues and 96 high-quality restaurants out of 473 analyzed.
Edinburgh has 19 fully vegan restaurants and 12 vegetarian restaurants. 76 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Edinburgh's top signature dishes for vegans are cinnamon roll, haggis, breakfast, and the city also does pizza and cake well. Signature dishes are ranked by how the city's venues score against the other 157 cities we track.
The vegan scene in Edinburgh leans British, Asian, Italian. British is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Babyfaced Baker is ranked #1 in Edinburgh 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.
