Mumbai's essentials skew American and crossover before traditional Indian, with Rare Earth - The Vegan Cafe and EarthBuns- Healthy Burger Cafe leading that side and FIG - The Bakery covering dessert. Sadak Chaap is the lone North Indian anchor, cake tops the signature list at 15 venues, and dosa hits 10. The 10-deep Indian and Italian cuisine lineups show where the city's real depth actually lives.
Ranked by overall rating, signature dish strength, and how much reviewers praise the food. If you only have a weekend, start here.
Try the air-fried Peri Peri Not Chicken Tikka Nugget and burgers
Opt for vegan dishes clearly labeled such as unchicken fingers and broccoli tikka
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 chaap
Try the Malai Chaap and Haryali Chaap
Opt for vegan dishes clearly labeled such as unchicken fingers and broccoli tikka
Try the Vegan Malai Chaap made with cashews and soy milk
Try the Barraa chaap, a popular flavorful dish
10 places worth stopping for dosa
Order vegan filter coffee for an authentic experience
Try the podi dosa
Visit outside peak hours to find standing tables easily
Try the paper dosa, a popular two-person dish
15 places worth stopping for cake
Try the flourless chocolate cake and almond kunafa
Try the wood-fired ragi vegetable pizza with seasonal toppings
Highly recommended to try vegan pizzas with quality ingredients
Try the Biscoff Cake for a standout flavor
spinach · Vegan Food Guide All 319 Mumbai 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 vegan butter chaap pizza and cashew cheese pizza
Try the sourdough mushroom sandwich
Try the millet dosa and ragi roti dishes
Try the katsu curry and vegan pizza
Mainstream restaurants where the vegan side of the menu is treated seriously.
Open before 10, good coffee, the kind of place you walk back to on day two.
Weekday fuel and weekend stretches.
Try the vegan butter chaap pizza and cashew cheese pizza
Try the Vegan Malai Chaap made with cashews and soy milk
Try the flourless chocolate cake and almond kunafa
Try the millet dosa and ragi roti dishes
Where the coffee is the reason to come.
Try the Irani chai with plant-based milk
Try the Veggilicious Pizza, Peri Peri Fries, and Happiness Bowl
Try the Korean cheese bun and mac and cheese
Try the plant-based chicken burritos and oat milk lattes
Ice cream, pastry, and the honest dessert case.
Try the Biscoff Cake for a standout flavor
Try the flourless chocolate cake and almond kunafa
Try the millet dosa and ragi roti dishes
Try the Veggilicious Pizza, Peri Peri Fries, and Happiness Bowl
Quiet rooms, unhurried pace, under $$.
Wifi, outlets, no judgement for a 3-hour sit.
Busy rooms with tables big enough for eight.
Try the katsu curry and vegan pizza
Try the vegan nachos and Korean fried paneer dishes
Try the daily-changing vegan thali with traditional accompaniments like coconut milk chaas
Try the ramen and teriyaki tofu dishes
Menus kids recognize, staff who don't flinch at strollers.
Try the Veggilicious Pizza, Peri Peri Fries, and Happiness Bowl
Highly recommended to try vegan pizzas with quality ingredients
Try the podi dosa
Try the daily-changing vegan thali with traditional accompaniments like coconut milk chaas
Try the Veggilicious Pizza, Peri Peri Fries, and Happiness Bowl
Try the fake paneer rolls made from watermelon seeds
Try the daily-changing vegan thali with traditional accompaniments like coconut milk chaas
Try the vegan nachos and Korean fried paneer dishes
Yes — Mumbai has 319 vegan-ready venues. The top-ranked are Rare Earth - The Vegan Cafe, The Cravin' Pantry, FIG - The Bakery. Spinach ranks them daily on overall rating, signature dish strength, and reviewer praise for the food.
Mumbai scores 34.3/100 on the Spinach vegan city index. The city has 34 vegan-friendly venues and 68 high-quality restaurants out of 319 analyzed.
Mumbai has 17 fully vegan restaurants and 152 vegetarian restaurants. 34 venues score B or higher on the Vegan Friendliness grade.
Mumbai's top signature dishes for vegans are chaap, dosa, cake, and the city also does pizza well. Signature dishes are ranked by how the city's venues score against the other 157 cities we track.
The vegan scene in Mumbai leans Indian, Italian, Mediterranean. Indian is particularly strong, with 10 venues serving quality plant-based options.
Rare Earth - The Vegan Cafe is ranked #1 in Mumbai 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.