Note and W a r n i n g :
This is not a complete list of vegan or vegetarian places in Stuttgart. For example, "Vhy!", "Soy Club", "Veganes Gold", "Heaven's Kitchen", "Vegalena" (Vegalena seems to be closed?), and "Köhlerstüble" are missing! Maybe I'll get to document many of them on the next walkabout.
So ... Back in the day, before there was the internet, Stuttgart city centre was the place to "go shopping". Remember the Palladium canvas ankle boots with a small rubber toe cap that Karl Earth Crisis was sporting at some concerts in the early 1990s. I had those too - and bought them somewhere where Königstraße meets Marienstraße - the main shopping street in Stuttgart.
Right next to Schlossplatz, there are the much-ignored (?) Königsbau-Passagen. You must step inside to be able to find and see Cig Köftem - pronounce: chee [silent g] köf-tem - with an "M". Cig köfte is the good, Cig Köftem is the name of the fast food chain. They have cig köfte and they also have falafel. Ask for everything to be vegan to make sure.
Königsbau-Passagen from the outside
Closed on Tuesdays (Ruhetag)
The inside on a Tuesday:
A few minutes walk to the left, you'll find the OG vegan bakery store "Lebe gesund!", which has been around at least since the mid-2000s. The ingredients are all vegan - except for honey in some products, if I remember correctly ... so do ask for honey!! (honey = Honig in German, pronounce: Hoh-nik). All (?) ingredients come from stock-free, that is veganic (vegan organic) farming, i.e., no animal manure is used. The store is run by a Christian organization.
Opening times of said store: Monday to Friday: 9 am to 7:30 pm; Saturday: 8:30 am to 8 pm; Sunday: closed
In Stuttgart, and much of urban Germany, it now feels like you could just stop walking anywhere and there are vegan food options available. Example: "Arda Kebap", a regular slaughterhouse-product kebab shop with its own vegan section on the menu, even if it's just bread and sauce and cig köfte.
Right inside the not all that horrendous central railway station (also called main station or Hauptbahnhof or Hbf).
That was a long time ago. In the late 1990s -- Google says 1995 (?), that's not how I remember it -- when "Veggie Voodoo King" first opened, it was a major revolution ... that there could be a fully vegetarian place, with many vegan options, right in the centre of Stuttgart - and that such a place could survive financially ... deep in the German south west, where the main virtue is arguably greed.
Right next to Schlossplatz, there are the much-ignored (?) Königsbau-Passagen. You must step inside to be able to find and see Cig Köftem - pronounce: chee [silent g] köf-tem - with an "M". Cig köfte is the good, Cig Köftem is the name of the fast food chain. They have cig köfte and they also have falafel. Ask for everything to be vegan to make sure.
Königsbau-Passagen from the outside
Step inside and immediately turn right
You'll find Cig Köftem on your left:
Right in the Fresspassage - or properly named Fressgasse - but upstairs ... you'll find "Energetic Life", a fully vegan 2020s vegan restaurant.
Schulstraße 8
Just around the corner, you'll find "Viegan", a totally Vietnamese, totally vegan, and totally beautiful restaurant you can take your boss to. Note: closed on Tuesdays!
Closed on Tuesdays (Ruhetag)
The inside on a Tuesday:
A few minutes walk to the left, you'll find the OG vegan bakery store "Lebe gesund!", which has been around at least since the mid-2000s. The ingredients are all vegan - except for honey in some products, if I remember correctly ... so do ask for honey!! (honey = Honig in German, pronounce: Hoh-nik). All (?) ingredients come from stock-free, that is veganic (vegan organic) farming, i.e., no animal manure is used. The store is run by a Christian organization.
Opening times of said store: Monday to Friday: 9 am to 7:30 pm; Saturday: 8:30 am to 8 pm; Sunday: closed
In Stuttgart, and much of urban Germany, it now feels like you could just stop walking anywhere and there are vegan food options available. Example: "Arda Kebap", a regular slaughterhouse-product kebab shop with its own vegan section on the menu, even if it's just bread and sauce and cig köfte.
Yufka and Fladenbrot are Turkish bread types.
The original "Veggie Voodoo King", apparently cancelized their name into "Vegi". Make doubly sure to check that everything is vegan because even items clearly marked as vegan on the menu - most items - can be accompanyied by a non-vegan sauce (yoghurt sauce). And the staff is not ultra-attentive to this issue (my experience). The food is great and the place is busy and the prices are relatively low.
Menu
Menu
I would like to see "Gustav Grün" outlets in southern Germany - but this is totally fine too.
Hummus of the day (with beetroot). It also had falafel. I bought this because I was curious what they consider hummus, for example, a plate of food with just hummus and some bread on the side. This, I would call a falafel with hummus. Anyway, I was very happy. Generous portion and delicious.
Walking from "Viegan" to the other side (not the "Lebe gesund" side) ... you'll get to ... "Doen Doen burger" - a fully vegan non-nonsense burger place with Beyond Meat burgers. Totally popular with the new generations. Apparently, this is owned by the equally fully vegan "Doen Doen kebap" places (which I have not seen).
Again, just around the corner you can find the creatively named "Yuícery" - there are at least two of these in Stuttgart. A big place, very popular, very mainstream-looking. I even first walked past because it said "Chicken" everywhere, but it actually says "Chick'n"!
Walking from "Viegan" to the other side (not the "Lebe gesund" side) ... you'll get to ... "Doen Doen burger" - a fully vegan non-nonsense burger place with Beyond Meat burgers. Totally popular with the new generations. Apparently, this is owned by the equally fully vegan "Doen Doen kebap" places (which I have not seen).
Again, just around the corner you can find the creatively named "Yuícery" - there are at least two of these in Stuttgart. A big place, very popular, very mainstream-looking. I even first walked past because it said "Chicken" everywhere, but it actually says "Chick'n"!
This is the place to take your hipster boss, your architect father, your physician other father, your professor, and your 2020s version of tetris-playing niece. If this place succeeds, the mainstreaming of vegan eating may very well succeed. Awe-some and awe-inspiring. Not that the other veg places are not, they are too.
Another example in support of the "stop anywhere" theory. Even Burger King has their one "veggie menu". According to Burger King Germany, these veggie products are vegan, but make sure there is no "bacon" (non-veg bacon!!?) and no cheese (not vegan!). The mayonnaise is vegan!
Another example in support of the "stop anywhere" theory. Even Burger King has their one "veggie menu". According to Burger King Germany, these veggie products are vegan, but make sure there is no "bacon" (non-veg bacon!!?) and no cheese (not vegan!). The mayonnaise is vegan!
Here is the official statement from the Burger King website (as of 2 July 2025), in German:
"Welche Burger King® Produkte sind vegan?
Alle Plant-based Pattys und Plant-based Nuggets sowie das Veggie King Patty kommen ganz ohne tierische Produkte aus, d.h. ohne Fleisch, Käse, Milch oder Ei. Als Burgersauce verwenden wir eine vegane Salatmayonnaise (ohne Ei). Daher sind alle Zutaten z.B. für einen Plant- based Whopper®, Plant-based Hamburger, Plant-based Long Chicken® oder die Plant-based King Nuggets vegan. Die Rindfleischalternativen könnten beim Grillen in Kontakt mit Fleisch kommen. Nicht vegan sind Produkte, die Zutaten wie beispielsweise Bacon oder Käse enthalten, ebenso wie unsere Desserts und Shakes.
[...]
[Nicht vegan:]
Alle unsere Plant-based Produkte sind vegetarisch, denn sie sind komplett ohne Fleisch und ohne Fisch, können aber tierische Produkte wie Käse, Milch oder Ei enthalten. [Nicht vegan:] Beispiele sind der Plant-based Big King® (Sauce enthält Ei), der Plant-based Chili Cheese oder der Plant- based Cheeseburger (Käse).
"
English translation:
"Which Burger King® products are vegan?
All plant-based patties and plant-based nuggets, as well as the Veggie King patty, are made entirely without animal products, meaning no meat, cheese, milk, or eggs. We use a vegan salad mayonnaise (without eggs) as our burger sauce. Therefore, all ingredients for our Plant-based Whopper®, Plant-based Hamburger, Plant-based Long Chicken®, or Plant-based King Nuggets are vegan. Beef alternatives may come into contact with meat during grilling. Products containing ingredients such as bacon or cheese, as well as our desserts and shakes, are not vegan.
[...]
[NOT VEGAN:]
All of our plant-based products are vegetarian, meaning they are completely meat- and fish-free, but may contain animal products such as cheese, milk, or eggs. [Not vegan:] Examples include the Plant-based Big King® (sauce contains egg), the Plant-based Chili Cheese, and the Plant-based Cheeseburger (cheese)."
Another example supporting the "stop anywhere" theory. Right at the Schlossplatz, where "Cig Köftem" is ... a menu sign for "Martha's" including vegan Flammkuchen - a traditional thin, crispy flatbread originating from the Alsace region (France). It often has cheese, but in this case a vegan white sauce. Make sure to specify you want a vegan one!
Right inside the not all that horrendous central railway station (also called main station or Hauptbahnhof or Hbf).
You will not find the cheapest and most delicious vegan food right inside the Hbf. But maybe you are in a rush and starving and tired or unable to walk a lot. There are - actually quite many - vegan food options right inside the station, right next to the platforms where the trains arrive and depart.
A "Dean & David" - another chain, they have vegan options.
A Burger King - they should have the usual vegan options.
"Min Min" - right next to Platform 1. I did not investigate but surely they have vegan options. Note: there is free internet on that corner!
Many of the bakery or sandwich stalls also have vegan options. Always explicitly state "vegan" - German pronunciation: veh-gahn (stress on the second syllable).
A Burger King - they should have the usual vegan options.
"Min Min" - right next to Platform 1. I did not investigate but surely they have vegan options. Note: there is free internet on that corner!
Many of the bakery or sandwich stalls also have vegan options. Always explicitly state "vegan" - German pronunciation: veh-gahn (stress on the second syllable).