Newcastle's essentials read more like a dessert and bakery crawl than a pub city, with Glazed, A Little Piece of Sky, and Mimi's Ice Cream Emporium leading alongside Scream for Pizza and Dosa Kitchen. Bao, breakfast, and dumplings tie at 5 venues on the signatures, but the British scene goes 10 deep in the cuisine lineup, with Glazed and Scream for Pizza topping cake and pizza picks.
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength, and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
Must go · #5 Great variety of vegan ice creams and sorbets always available
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Must go · #7 Try the vegan platter with various lentil dishes and injera
Try the vegan pho, praised for its delicious, herby broth.
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Must go · #15 Try the vegan red top slice, highly recommended by multiple guests
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 bao
Try the vegan breakfast bao bun
Try the tofu and courgette dumplings and cabbage bao buns
Try the Mapo Tofu, highly recommended and popular among vegans
Try the Teriyaki Tofu Bao Buns
5 places worth stopping for breakfast
5 places worth stopping for dumplings
Try the tofu and courgette dumplings and cabbage bao buns
Try the glutinous rice dumplings
Try the vegan dumplings with choice of sauces
Try the tofu and vegetable dumplings
spinach · Vegan Food Guide All 210 Newcastle Upon Tyne venues on the map. Filter by what's open, save what you'd return for, get walking directions in two taps.
Mainstream restaurants where the vegan side of the menu is treated seriously.
Try the vegan Shuffle Truffle pizza
Try the Sunday sapaad meal for abundant vegan dishes and free refills
Try the vegan platter with various lentil dishes and injera
Great variety of vegan ice creams and sorbets always available
Open before 10, good coffee, the kind of place you walk back to on day two.
Try the monthly special donuts for new creative flavors
Try the vegan breakfast bao bun
Try the vegan pastrami bagel
Try the vegan full English breakfast with avocado and hash browns
Weekday fuel and weekend stretches.
Try the monthly special donuts for new creative flavors
The staff are very accommodating and friendly
Try the vegan shawarma fries
Try the vegan breakfast bao bun
The reason you planned the trip.
Busy rooms with tables big enough for eight.
Enjoy the clearly labelled vegan menu for easy ordering
Try the vegan chicken malai tikka for rich, juicy flavor
Plan your visit for Saturday or Sunday food service days
Try the sweetcorn fritters, a consistently praised vegan dish
Menus kids recognize, staff who don't flinch at strollers.
Great variety of vegan ice creams and sorbets always available
Try the Sunday sapaad meal for abundant vegan dishes and free refills
Try the "fish" and chips on Fridays
Try the vegan Dirty Doner
Cities where the bao signature also earns a spot in the top essentials — pack a weekend around one.
Yes — Newcastle Upon Tyne has 210 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Glazed, Scream for Pizza, Dosa Kitchen. Spinach ranks them daily on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Newcastle Upon Tyne scores 42.8/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 29 vegan-friendly venues and 28 high-quality restaurants out of 210 analyzed.
Newcastle Upon Tyne has 9 fully vegan restaurants and 4 vegetarian restaurants. 29 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Newcastle Upon Tyne's top signature dishes for vegans are bao, breakfast, dumplings, and the city also does cake 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 Newcastle Upon Tyne leans British. British is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Glazed is ranked #1 in Newcastle Upon Tyne 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.
