★ MUST GO · #1 Photo via Google Maps Long Beach plays California-American directly, with Nice Burger topping burgers across 4 venues, Thunderbolt Pizza leading pizza at 4, and Sweet Retreat Donuts owning the donut category that anchors signatures at 5. Vegan Castle and Appu's Turmeric Cafe both cross cuisines into Mexican, and San and Wolves takes cake at 3 venues. Breakfast burrito and taco both come in at 5 venues each, with the American cuisine running 10 deep behind it all.
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength, and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
★ MUST GO · #1 Photo via Google Maps 
Must go · #2 Try the White Sauce pizza with kale and vegan pepperoni
Must go · #3 Visit early to get the best selection before sold out
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Must go · #5 Enjoy the vegan mango lassi as a creamy, refreshing drink
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Must go · #9 Try the vegan pink strawberry donut and classic maple bar
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Must go · #11 Try the buffalo chicken and meatball vegan pizzas
Must go · #12 Try the drunken nachos with housemade chips and pinto beans
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Must go · #15 Try the vegan birria taco with habanero salsa for a flavorful experience
Dishes ranked by how well this city's plant-based venues make them, compared to the other 157 cities we track.
5 places worth stopping for donut
5 places worth stopping for breakfast burrito
Try the vegan breakfast burrito with hot sauce
Try the vegan breakfast burrito, highly recommended by many vegans
Try the tofu scramble and breakfast burritos
Try the vegan omelet with avocado and pico de gallo
5 places worth stopping for taco
Try the vegan birria taco with habanero salsa for a flavorful experience
Try the drunken nachos with housemade chips and pinto beans
Try the vegan al pastor tacos and enchiladas
Expect fresh, hot tacos made to order—let them cool before eating
spinach · Vegan Food Guide All 168 Long Beach 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 Mexicali burger for a flavorful experience
Try the Cookie Monster roll
Try the tofu scramble and breakfast burritos
Try the lemon pistachio donut
Mainstream restaurants where the vegan side of the menu is treated seriously.
Try the White Sauce pizza with kale and vegan pepperoni
Visit early to get the best selection before sold out
Try the pie flight to sample multiple vegan flavors.
Enjoy taco deals on Taco Tuesday
Open before 10, good coffee, the kind of place you walk back to on day two.
Enjoy oat milk as the default milk in drinks
Visit early to get the best selection before sold out
Try the vegan pink strawberry donut and classic maple bar
Try the lemon pistachio donut
Weekday fuel and weekend stretches.
Try the Mexicali burger for a flavorful experience
Try the White Sauce pizza with kale and vegan pepperoni
Try the Scooby and Dragon rolls for best flavor
Try the tofu scramble and breakfast burritos
Ice cream, pastry, and the honest dessert case.
Menus kids recognize, staff who don't flinch at strollers.
Visit early to get the best selection before sold out
Enjoy the vegan mango lassi as a creamy, refreshing drink
Try the lemon pistachio donut
Try the Iconic Fries and pumpkin pie shake
Try the vegan breakfast burrito, highly recommended by many vegans
Try the B-Wing Salad for a fresh and flavorful dish
Order gluten-free and vegan bread if you have dietary restrictions
Ask for drinks made vegan with non-dairy milks like oat, hemp, or soy
Cities where the donut signature also earns a spot in the top essentials — pack a weekend around one.
Yes — Long Beach has 168 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Nice Burger, Thunderbolt Pizza, Sweet Retreat Donuts. Spinach ranks them daily on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Long Beach scores 58.2/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 41 vegan-friendly venues and 41 high-quality restaurants out of 168 analyzed.
Long Beach has 28 fully vegan restaurants and 9 vegetarian restaurants. 41 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Long Beach's top signature dishes for vegans are donut, breakfast burrito, taco, and the city also does burger 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 Long Beach leans American. American is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Nice Burger is ranked #1 in Long Beach 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.
