The 10 Best Vegan Restaurants in New York City

Dirt Candy on the Lower East Side proved vegetables could carry a fine-dining room years before it was fashionable — the menu is vegetarian with most dishes vegan or easily made so, and the tasting-menu energy makes it a special-occasion standard. A few blocks east, Avant Garden keeps things candlelit and fully plant-based, with small plates built around vegetables you can actually identify.

For old-school comfort, Red Bamboo in the Village has been plating vegan soul food — fake-chicken parm, Southern platters — since before Instagram existed. And Jajaja Plant Mex brings jackfruit carnitas and a pastel patio to plant-based Mexican cooking.

Williamsburg's Modern Love, from vegan-cookbook legend Isa Chandra Moskowitz, serves the omni-pleasing comfort food her recipes are famous for: schnitzel, pierogi,Layer cakes. Bushwick's Champs Diner is the retro vegan diner of your Pulp Fiction dreams — milkshakes, pancakes, and burgers at 2 a.m.

Dun-Well Doughnuts has been frying vegan doughnuts in East Williamsburg since 2011; the rotating flavors sell out, so go before noon.

Superiority Burger's East Village counter is arguably the most famous veggie burger in America — the menu flips constantly, and the gelato is vegan. Queue at off-peak hours, then walk off the meal along the East River parks.