US Vegan Restaurant Statistics October 2026 edition

Cities with the most listings

How many restaurants we list in each city: a directory count, not a census of every restaurant there.

#	City	Spots listed
1	New York City (all five boroughs)	197
2	Philadelphia	75
3	Houston	67
4	Washington	62
5	Los Angeles	37
6	Atlanta	35
7	Portland	33
8	Austin	31
9	Las Vegas	27
10	Baltimore	24

Price distribution

Of the 2,013 restaurants with price data: 23% are budget ($), 75% mid-range ($$), 1% upscale ($$$), and <1% fine dining ($$$$), using Google's price levels. Eating out with vegan food skews affordable: roughly 98% of the restaurants we list cost $$ or less.

100% vegan restaurants per million residents

States with 5 or more restaurants we label 100% vegan (Google category, name or a hand check).

#	State	Per million	100% vegan
1	District of Columbia	11.40	8
2	Hawaii	6.92	10
3	Oregon	5.85	25
4	New York	4.43	88
5	California	4.13	163
6	Georgia	4.03	45
7	Nevada	3.37	11
8	Connecticut	3.26	12
9	New Jersey	3.26	31
10	Pennsylvania	3.21	42
11	Maryland	3.03	19
12	Utah	2.85	10
13	Tennessee	2.49	18
14	Washington	2.39	19
15	Virginia	2.38	21

Most vegan-friendly big cities per capita

Dedicated vegan and vegetarian restaurants per 100,000 residents, for cities of 100,000+ people with 5 or more such restaurants in our directory (US Census Bureau 2024 city estimates). New York City counts all five boroughs. Small counts swing these figures, so the sample size is shown.

#	City	Per 100k	Dedicated	Population
1	Atlanta, Georgia	4.42	23	520,070
2	Portland, Oregon	3.46	22	635,749
3	Oakland, California	2.71	12	443,554
4	Richmond, Virginia	2.57	6	233,655
5	Orlando, Florida	2.09	7	334,854
6	Honolulu, Hawaii	2.03	7	344,967
7	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1.97	31	1,573,916
8	Sacramento, California	1.87	10	535,798
9	Austin, Texas	1.81	18	993,588
10	St. Louis, Missouri	1.79	5	279,695
11	Las Vegas, Nevada	1.77	12	678,922
12	Seattle, Washington	1.66	13	780,995
13	Cincinnati, Ohio	1.59	5	314,915
14	Long Beach, California	1.55	7	450,901
15	San Francisco, California	1.45	12	827,526
16	Miami, Florida	1.44	7	487,014
17	Nashville, Tennessee	1.42	10	704,963
18	Baltimore, Maryland	1.41	8	568,271
19	New Orleans, Louisiana	1.38	5	362,701
20	Washington, District of Columbia	1.28	9	702,250

How many vegan and vegetarian restaurants close?

289 of the 2,676 places we track (10.8%) are marked permanently closed on Google, checked through October 12, 2026. Many of these listings had not been re-checked for years, so this counts closures accumulated over time, not a yearly closure rate. It compares places within our directory only and says nothing about why a place closed. We do not name closed businesses.

What vegan dishes cost

Median menu price at 100% vegan restaurants, from prices listed on Google menus ($2 to $80; dishes seen at 10 or more restaurants). Menus were captured at up to 14 items each until October 2026, and some Google menus carry delivery-app prices.

The vegan dishes diners talk about most

Dishes named most often in Google reviews of 100% vegan restaurants (each mentioned at 10 or more restaurants). Mentions count review topics as Google groups them.

#	Dish	Mentions	Restaurants
1	mac and cheese	3,874	109
2	smoothie	2,544	72
3	burger	2,435	57
4	shake	1,951	24
5	sushi	1,866	26
6	cheesesteak	1,451	49
7	pizza	1,387	18
8	sweet potato fries	1,218	68
9	nachos	1,194	16
10	collard greens	1,090	42
11	chicken sandwich	1,028	47
12	cinnamon roll	1,014	34
13	reuben	992	46
14	wing	973	25
15	pho	876	33
16	dan dan noodles	842	11
17	burrito	837	21
18	gyro	834	29
19	empanada	781	27
20	cornbread	770	30
21	ribs	728	13
22	crab cake	728	29
23	cupcake	728	24
24	cauliflower wing	670	31
25	pad thai	576	30

Signature vegan dish by state

The dish mentioned at the most dedicated vegan and vegetarian restaurants in each state with 15 or more of them.

State	Dish	Restaurants mentioning it
California	orange chicken	21 of 179
New York	mac and cheese	12 of 102
Texas	smoothie	9 of 72
Florida	mac and cheese	11 of 52
Georgia	mac and cheese	10 of 50
Pennsylvania	cheesesteak	12 of 49
New Jersey	smoothie	8 of 34
Virginia	smoothie	5 of 28
Oregon	sweet potato fries	4 of 28
Illinois	cauliflower wing	4 of 26
Ohio	gyro	4 of 24
Washington	smoothie	4 of 24
North Carolina	chili cheese fries	6 of 24
Tennessee	smoothie	4 of 21
Massachusetts	mac and cheese	7 of 21
Maryland	mac and cheese	9 of 20
Arizona	al pastor taco	3 of 20
Michigan	smoothie	5 of 16

Directory counts, not a census

Every figure on this page counts the restaurants in the Vegan Eats Map directory, built from Google Maps data and checked as described in how we build and check listings. It is not a count of every restaurant in the country. Download the state table and city table as CSV, and see amenities by state.