Metro Area Healthy Restaurants

Restaurants offering only vegetarian food or a significant choice of vegetarian dishes.


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Includes NYC; suburbs not available yet.

 

The list of eateries below is drawn from the following book, which has excellent reviews:

 

Arthur Brown - Good & Cheap Vegetarian Dining in New York

published November 1996, by City & Company, NYC.

 

 

HOWEVER: All comments below are entirely my own, based on personal

experience eating in these establishments.

 

Manhattan (212)

Abyssinia

35 Grand St., 226-5959

American Cafe

160 Broadway, 732-1426

Angelica Kitchen

300 E. 12 St., 228-2909

Apple Restaurant

17 Waverly Place, 473-8888

B & H Dairy

127 Second Ave.(8 St.), 505-8065

Bachue

36 West 21 St., 229-0870

Bell Cafe

310 Spring St., 334-2355

Benny's Burritos

113 Greenwich Avenue, 727-0584

Blanche's Organic Cafe

66 E. 44 St., 599-3445

972 Lexington Ave.(71 St.), 717-1923

Burritoville

1489 First Ave.(77 St.), 472-8800

141 Second Ave.(8 St.), 260-3300

1606 Third Ave.(90 St.), 410-2255

148 W. 4 St., 505-1212

451 Amsterdam Ave.(81 St.), 787-8181

36 Water St., 747-1100

141 Second Ave.(8 St.), 260-3300

144 Chambers St., 571-1144

70 W. 95 St., 749-6534

Cafe Viva

2578 Broadway (97 St.), 663-8482

Candle Cafe

1307 Third Ave. (75 St.), 472-0970

Caravan of Dreams

405 E. 6th St., 254-1613

Chutney Mary

[INDIAN; TRIED IT; LAST TIME I WENT, THE SERVICE WAS NOT GOOD --JEFF]

40 E. 20 St., 473-8181

Commodities Coffee Bar

117 Hudson St., 334-8330

Diamond Dairy

4 W. 47 St., 719-2694

Dining at Rubi's

260 W. 125 St., 666-7824

Doctor Squeeze

4 W. 23 St., 243-5842

Dojo

24 St. Mark's Place, 674-9821

Eden Rock

2325 Broadway (84 St.), 873-1361

Eva's

11 W. 8th St., 677-3496

Freddie and Pepper's Gourmet Pizzeria

303 Amsterdam Ave. (74 St.), 799-2378

Good Food Cafe

401 Fifth Ave. (38 St.), 686-3546

Good Health Cafe

324 East 86 St., 439-9680

Govinda's Pushcart

In front of 80 Broadway (Seasonal)

Great American Health Bar

2 Park Ave. (32 St.), 685-7117

[GOOD FOR LUNCH NEAR CARNEGIE HALL --JEFF]

35 West 57 St., 355-5177

821 Third Ave. (50 St.), 758-0883

Gulliver's/Liliput Cafe

120 W. 41 St., 730-5433

Hangawi

12 E., 32 St., 213-0077

Health Pub

371 Second Ave.(21 St.), 529-9200

Healthy Chelsea

248 W. 23 St., 691-0286

Healthy Pleasures

93 University Place, 353-3663

Helianthus

48 MacDougal St., 598-0387

Hong Kong Vegetarian

1400 Second Ave. (72 St.), 472-8717

House of Vegetarian

68 Mott St., 226-6572

Indian Delhi

392 Columbus Ave., 362-8760

Integral Yoga

299 W. 13 St., 243-2642

Josephina

1900 Broadway (65/66 St.), 799-1000

Josie's

300 Amsterdam Ave. (74 St.), 769-1212

Le Poeme

14 Prince St., 941-1106

Lenox Ave. Health Food

471 Lenox Ave. - Malcolm X Blvd - (133 St.), 368-7663

Life Cafe

343 E. 10 St., 477-9001

1 Sheridan Square, 929-7344

Lucky's Juice Joint

75 West Houston St.. 388-0300

Madras Mahal

104 Lexington Ave. (27 St.), 684-4010

Mana

2444 Broadway (90 St.), 787-1110

Mavali Palace

46 E. 29 St., 679-5535

Melanie's Natural Cafe

445 Sixth Ave. (10 St.), 463-7744

Michael & Zoe's

101 Second Ave. (5 St.) 254-5004

Natural Food Bar

166 W. 72 St., 874-1213

Nature Works

200A W. 44 St., 869-8335

Ozu

566 Amsterdam Ave. (87 St.), 787-8316

Planet One

76 E. 7 St., 475-0112

Plum Tree

1501 First Ave. (78 St.), 734-1412

Ratner's Dairy Restaurant

138 Delancey St., 677-5588

Salad Bowl

Pier 17, Soyth St. Seaport, 693-0590

901 Sixth Ave., 594-6512

566 Seventh Ave. (41 St.), 921-7060

Salad Daze

390 Whitehall St., 509-0077

Sanctuary

33 St. Marks Place (8 St.), 505-8234

Souen Macrobiotic

28 E. 13 St., 627-7150

210 Sixth Ave. (Prince St.), 807-7421

Spring St. Natural

62 Spring St., 966-0290

Strictly Roots

2058 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (122 St.), 864-8699

Tamarind Seed Health Foods

[GOOD FOR SANDWICH WHEN VISITING COLUMBIA U. --JEFF]

2935 Broadway (115 St.), 864-3360

Taqueria

355 Sixth Ave. (Waverly Pl.), 229-0999

Temple in the Village

74 W. 3rd St., 475-5670

Teva

122 E. 42 St., 599-1265

Topaz

127 W. 56 St., 957-8020

Uptown Juice Bar (Deli)

60 W. 125 St., 987-1188

Vegetable Garden

15 E. 40 St., 545-7444

Vege Vege

[TRY THE HOT & SOUR SOUP -- JEFF]

544 Third Ave., (36 St.), 679-4710

Vegetarian Garden

37 E. 29 St., 686-9691

Vegetarian Heaven

304 W. 58 St., 956-4678

Vegetarian Paradise 2

144 W. 4 St., 260-7130

Vegetarian Paradise 3

33-35 Mott St., 406-6988

Village Natural

46 Greenwich Ave., 727-0968

Whole Earth Bakery/Kitchen

70 Spring St., 226-8280

130 St. marks' Place, 677-7597

Whole Foods in Soho

117 Prince St., 673-5388

Whole Foods Uptown

[GREAT FOOD; POOR COMMUNITY SPIRIT --JEFF]

2421 Broadway, 874-4000

Queens (718)

Anand Bhavan

35-66 73rd. St. near Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights, 507-1600

Annam Brahma

84-43 164 St., Jamaica, 523-2600

Bamboo Garden

41-28 Main St., Flushing, 463-9240

Knish Nosh

101-02 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, 897-5554

Kosher Corner

73-01 Main St., Kew Garden Hills, 263-1177

Quantum Leap

65-64 Fresh Meadow Lane, 461-1307

Smile of the Beyond

86-14 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 739-7453

Yonah Shimmel's

137 E. Houston St., 477-2858

Zen Palate

633 Ninth Ave.(46 St.), 582-1669

34 Union Square East (16 St.), 614-9345

Brooklyn (718)

Cafe Kapulsky

1217 Ave. J, Midwood, 338-3646

Cafe Natural

2812 Ocean Ave., Sheepshead Bay, 648-4248

Everything Vital

300 Troy Ave., Crown Heights, 953-9433

Famous Pita

935 Coney Island Ave., Kensington, 282-0868

Gourmet Cafe

1622 Coney Island Ave. (Ave. L), Midwood, 338-5825

Healthy Henrietta's

60 Henry St., Brooklyn Heights, 858-8478

787 Union St., PArk Slope, 622-2924

House of Falafel

620 Nostrand Ave., Bedford-Stuyvesant, 735-0009

Hunan Delight

752 Union St., Park Slope, 789-1400

I Rankin' Ital Stop

804 Nostrand Ave., Crown Heights, 467-7630

Kar

5908 Ave. N, Mill Basin, 531-8811

2212 Ave. X, Sheepshead Bay, 891-6868 (take-out)

Kar Luk

437 Fifth Ave., Park Slope, 832-4500

Liveth's Delight Veg. Rest.

1358 St. John's Place, Weeksville, 735-4008

Matamim Kosher Dairy

5001 13th Ave. (50 St.), Boro Park, 800-303-2522

Mathilda's Bakery

1321 Ave. J (E. 14 St.), Midwood, 951-8148

Mr. Falafel

226 Seventh Ave. (3 St.), Park Slope, 768-4961

Mrs. Stahl's Knishes

1001 Brighton Beach Ave., 648-0210

Oasis

137 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, 783-0215

Red Hot Szechuan

347 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, 369-0700

Steve & Sons Bakery, Restaurant

9305 Church Ave., Brownsville, 498-6800

Taqueria

72 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, 398-4300

341 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, 624-7498

8 Bergen St., Cobble hill, 624-7498

Vegetarian Delights

3604 Clarendon Rd., Flatbush, 284-9605

Weiss' Kosher Dairy

1146 Coney Island Ave., Midwood, 421-0184

West Indian Veg. and Seafood

752 Nostrand Ave., Crown Heights, 778-7100

Who's on Seventh

183 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, 965-0597

Bronx (718)

Everything Natural

3810 White Plains Rd. (219 St.), 652-9070

Staten Island (718)

Dairy Palace

2210 Victory Blvd., 761-5200

Last updated: November 16, 1997