August 3, 2026
The Best Vegan Restaurants in Miami: Where to Eat Plant-Based in the 305
Miami's vegan scene has been through a shakeout. A few years ago the conversation was dominated by the big, glossy, out-of-town names — the ones with velvet banquettes and $26 plant-based sushi rolls, imported from Toronto or New York, planted on Lincoln Road or in the Grove. Most of those are gone now. What's left is more interesting, and honestly more useful: neighborhood restaurants run by people who live here, cooking the food Miami actually eats, minus the animal products.
That means vegan ropa vieja in Kendall that a Cuban grandmother would recognize. It means plant-based griot and pikliz in Little Haiti. It means a 100% vegan Italian kitchen on Southwest 8th Street turning out cacio e pepe with cashew cream, and a plant-based Mexican bar in Wynwood pouring mezcal alongside its tacos. The city's plant-based food is now organized the way the rest of Miami's food is organized — by culture and by neighborhood, not by dietary label.
This guide covers five ways into that scene: full-service restaurants where you'd happily bring someone who isn't vegan, the comfort-food and burger counters, the Latin and Caribbean kitchens doing the most distinctly Miami work, the juice bars and health-forward cafés, and the bakeries and dessert shops. Every spot below is fully vegan or has a plant-based menu deep enough that you're not just picking at sides.
Full-Service Plant-Based Restaurants
This is the category that shrank the most and then quietly rebuilt itself. The survivors aren't destination restaurants in the tourist sense — they're mostly in Little River, Buena Vista, and along the Coral Way corridor, in the kind of low-slung buildings Miami keeps repurposing. What they share is a real kitchen: cooked-to-order plates, a wine list or at least a decent natural-wine pour, and enough seats that a table of four can make a night of it.
The most reliable move here is to bring someone who doesn't eat vegan. These places are built to win that argument. The pastas are actually pastas, the sauces have body, and nothing on the plate is apologizing for what it isn't.
Full-service vegan restaurants to try in Miami:
Veganlitaly 
Flora 
Love Life Cafe 
Lemoni Cafe
Veganlitaly is the newest argument that plant-based cooking and Italian cooking aren't in conflict. It's a 100% plant-based kitchen on SW 8th Street doing pizza, fresh pasta, and antipasti with house-made cashew and almond cheeses — the kind of place where the ricotta on the pizza is a genuine achievement rather than a compromise. If you want to compare it against the city's dairy-forward side, our roundup of Miami's best pizza covers the other end of that spectrum.
Flora, in Little River, is the brunch-leaning one — a bright Mediterranean-inflected room where mezze, grain bowls, and a serious coffee program do most of the work. It reads more like a Tel Aviv café than a "vegan restaurant," which is exactly the point; it also fits neatly into Miami's broader Mediterranean scene. Love Life Cafe near Wynwood is the veteran of the group, with well over 2,000 reviews and a menu that spans plant-based sushi, pasta, burgers, and baked goods — the widest net of anyone on this list. Lemoni Cafe in Buena Vista rounds it out: a small, long-running neighborhood spot with a heavily vegan-friendly Mediterranean menu and a wine bar attitude.
Plant-Based Comfort Food and Burgers
Miami's plant-based comfort food is a counter-service world. These are the places doing smash-style vegan patties, loaded fries, wings, quesadillas, and bowls — food designed to be eaten fast and to hit the same notes as the animal-protein original. The ambition here isn't subtlety; it's satisfaction.
It's also the most geographically spread-out category on this list, which is a good sign. Plant-based comfort food used to live exclusively in Wynwood and South Beach. Now it's in Miami Gardens, Flagami, and Sunny Isles too, priced for a regular weekday lunch rather than an occasion.
Plant-based comfort food and burgers to try in Miami:
Dub N Grub Plant-Based 
Diced 
Sproutz
Dub N Grub in Miami Gardens is the sleeper — a small plant-based operation turning out burgers, wings, and loaded plates with a Caribbean-American accent, and one of the very few genuinely good vegan options in the north end of the county. Diced, in Flagami, is the bowl-and-wrap workhorse: build-your-own plates with plant-based proteins, useful when half your table eats meat and half doesn't. Sproutz in Sunny Isles Beach is the beach-side version of the same idea, a health-forward counter with a fully vegan section and enough turnover that everything tastes fresh. If you're building a broader budget list, most of these land comfortably inside our guide to Miami's best cheap eats, and the meat-eating counterpart is over in the city's burger roundup.
Vegan Latin and Caribbean Kitchens
This is the category that makes Miami's vegan scene distinct from anywhere else in the country. Cuban, Haitian, and Mexican cooking all have deep vegetable traditions — black beans, plantains, root vegetables, rice, pikliz, salsas — and the restaurants here lean into that history rather than importing a generic California health-food template.
The results are strikingly convincing. Vegan ropa vieja made from jackfruit or seitan, served with congri and maduros, doesn't taste like a substitute; it tastes like the dish. The same goes for vegan griot, or for a taco al pastor built on marinated mushrooms. If you're skeptical of plant-based food in general, this is the section to start with.
Vegan Latin and Caribbean spots to try in Miami:
Jajaja Mexicana 
Vegan Cuban Cuisine 
Vegan Marie
Jajaja Mexicana in Wynwood is the most bar-forward of the three — a fully plant-based Mexican restaurant with a real cocktail and mezcal list, tacos, ceviche-style plates, and enough energy that it works as a night out rather than just a meal. Vegan Cuban Cuisine in Kendall is the one to send your relatives to: croquetas, ropa vieja, picadillo, and tostones, all plant-based, all recognizably Cuban. It's a fascinating counterpoint to the traditional Cuban classics a few miles east. Vegan Marie in Little Haiti does the same trick with Haitian food — griot, legume, rice and beans, pikliz — and it remains one of the more underrated kitchens in the city.
Juice Bars, Raw Food, and Health-Forward Cafés
Not every plant-based meal is a sit-down dinner. Miami has an enormous cold-pressed juice, açaí, and raw-food economy — partly a beach city thing, partly a wellness-industry thing, and partly because a smoothie is a rational lunch when it's 94 degrees outside.
The good ones distinguish themselves in two ways: they press juice in-house rather than buying it in, and they serve real food alongside the drinks — grain bowls, wraps, avocado toast, salads with enough protein to count as a meal. The mediocre ones sell $16 of pineapple water. The spots below are firmly in the first camp.
Juice bars and health-forward cafés to try in Miami:
Raw South Juice Co 
Vale Healthy Kitchen 
Under the Mango Tree 
Carrot Express
Raw South Juice Co in Kendall is the purist's pick — cold-pressed juices, raw treats, and a loyal south-county following. Vale Healthy Kitchen's Brickell location is the volume player, feeding the financial district bowls, wraps, and smoothies at lunch speed with a clearly marked plant-based menu. Under the Mango Tree on South Beach is the most charming of the group, a long-running juice bar and vegetarian café a few blocks off the sand where the açaí bowls have a genuine cult following. Carrot Express on Miami Beach is the local chain that made this category mainstream — dozens of vegan-marked items, open early, and consistent across locations.
Vegan Bakeries and Dessert
Dessert is where plant-based cooking has closed the gap most completely. Aquafaba, coconut fat, and good vegan butter substitutes have gotten so capable that a well-made vegan croissant or gelato is now genuinely hard to distinguish from the dairy version — and Miami has a small cluster of specialists proving it, mostly along the NE 2nd Avenue spine between Buena Vista and Little River.
This is also the easiest category to use as a gateway. Nobody feels like they're compromising over a scoop of dairy-free pistachio gelato or a vegan guava pastelito.
Vegan bakeries and dessert spots to try in Miami:
The Plantisserie 
V Gelato & Cafe 
Archetti's Bakery 
Vegan Art by Indira
The Plantisserie in Little River is the anchor — a fully vegan bakery and café doing croissants, cakes, sandwiches, and pastries at a level that draws people who have no interest in veganism whatsoever. V Gelato & Cafe in Wynwood is the newer standout: an entirely plant-based gelateria from an award-winning gelato maker, working in small batches with no dairy, and turning out flavors like vegan dulce de leche and salted caramel that hold up against any traditional gelateria in the city. Archetti's Bakery, also in the Little River stretch, does French-style vegan and gluten-free baking. And Vegan Art by Indira in Allapattah is the custom-cake specialist — the one to call when someone's birthday needs to be plant-based and still look like a birthday.
Where to Start
If you're eating plant-based in Miami for the first time, the honest advice is to skip the places that market themselves as vegan restaurants and go to the ones that market themselves as restaurants. Veganlitaly for dinner, Vegan Cuban Cuisine when you want to understand what makes Miami's version of this different from Los Angeles's, Flora for a weekend late morning, and V Gelato on the way home.
And if you're the one dragging a skeptical friend along: order the ropa vieja, the pizza, or the gelato. The conversion rate on those three is very high.