Note and W a r n i n g :
This is not a complete list of vegan or vegetarian places in Stuttgart. For example, "Vegalena" (Vegalena seems to be closed?), and "Köhlerstüble" are missing! Maybe I'll get to document many of them on the next walkabout.
Closed on Tuesdays (Ruhetag)
The inside on a Tuesday:
Continuing for about 200 metres further up Schloßstraße, you'll get to "Soy Club".
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"!
Right inside the not all that horrendous central railway station (also called main station or Hauptbahnhof or Hbf).
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
That was a long time ago. In the late 1990s -- Google says 1995 (?), that's not how I remember it -- when "Veggie Voodoo King" (now called "Vegi") 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.
Address: Königstraße 26
If you entered the complex through the right entrance (I had overlooked that entrance the first time), you walk into the complex and then turn left - you can already see it from there.
Right in the Fresspassage - or properly named Fressgasse - but upstairs ... you'll find "Energetic Life", a fully vegan 2020s vegan restaurant.
Address: Schulstraße 8
If you walk back down the stairs into the Fressgasse (Schulstraße), you may see this ...
Even "My Currywurst" has a vegan option:
Walk downhill a few metres, turn right, and walk a few more steps. On your right, you'll see Cinnamood. They have the craziest varieties of semi-traditional German cinnamon rolls. Almost everything is vegan.
Address: Hirschstraße 4
All of these are vegan:
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!
Address: Neue Brücke 6
Closed on Tuesdays (Ruhetag)
The inside on a Tuesday:
Another 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.
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.
Address: Nadler Straße 12
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.
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". This place evokes nostalgia for old southwest German vegans.
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.
Address: Steinstraße 13
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.
"Vegi" from afar:
Just around the corner from "Vegi" you can find "Doen Doen Kebap", which is totally vegan.
Address: Josef-Hirn-Platz 8
If from "Doen Doen Kebap" you'll walk away from the centre, you can quickly reach "Kuchenliebe", a non-vegan place. But some claim that they have the best vegan cake in town (?).
Address: Wilhelmsplatz 7
Note: They have another location.
About 100 metres away is "Energetic World" - but it looked like they were renovating. So, they seem to be at least temporarily closed (?):
A bit further down the street from "Vegi" - turn left, right, left, straight - you'll find a little shopping mall. I'm not sure what the mall is called, but there's an Aldi inside, and a DM, etc. ... and also "Efendy's Cigköfte", an amazing little vegetarian food stall/restaurant, in the corner, next to a place called "Chutney":
They use some dairy products too. So, ask what is vegan. Vegan options are also labelled vegan, but I always ask anyway - because even if you order the vegan options and state "vegan" three times, they will still ask "which sauce?" - and at least once sauce is not vegan.
Cash only!
Address: Tübingerstraße 26
From another visit:
Lahmacun with falafel and vegetables.
Always make sure to say "vegan" at least twice. Even if you say "vegan lahmacun" (what their sign says in bold letters), they will ask "which sauces" you'd like. There are three sauces. Two (hummus and arrabiata) are vegan - the other one has dairy yoghurt.
Side note: "Chutney" (Indian restaurant) to the right and "Ciao Bella" to the left of Efendy's Cigköfte also have vegan options. When sitting at the tables by Efendy's Cigköftem, you can use DM's free WIFI.
Again, just around the corner, you'll find "Vhy!".
Address: Reinsburgstraße 13
Walking down Silberburgstraße and turning right onto Herzogstraße, you'll find "Ebony", an African restaurant I have seen mentioned as having decent vegan options.
Walking down Silberburgstraße and turning right onto Herzogstraße, you'll find "Ebony", an African restaurant I have seen mentioned as having decent vegan options.
Address: Herzogstraße 11
Keep walking on Silberburgstraße until you reach Schloßstraße (a main road), just a few hundred metres to the left there is "Veganes Gold".
Address: Schloßstraße 77
Even the döner kebab shop next to "Veganes Gold" - called "By Döner" - has vegan döner:
Address: Schloßstraße 112
Skip to Bretitscheidstraße, the smaller street running parallel to Schloßstraße, and walk back down towards the city centre, you'll get to "Vana Eis" - a vegan-friendly ice cream parlour. They also have vegan ice cream cones.
Address: Breitscheidstraße 20
"Maracuya" (= passion fruit) and chocolate
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).
Address: Doen Doen Burger, Kronprinzstraße 24
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.
Address: Hospitalstraße 19
Probably less that 100 metres away from "Yuícery", there is "Heaven's Kitchen", something to do with a yoga place (?) but also a restaurant.
Address: Theodor-Heuss-Straße 26
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).
Note that there are vegan food options also "behind" the Hbf, i.e., walking in the opposite direction of the city centre.
For vegan historians:
I was told that the Turkish fast food "döner" (kebab) place "Dilgelay" was, according to Dilgelay, the first place in Stuttgart to sell vegan döner. They still do, as well as other vegan Turkish (lahmacun) and not so Turkish (pizza) options.
Address: 156 Neckarstrasse, Stuttgart
In 1929, 1930, and 1931 - and possible the years surrounding these - there used to be two (at least these two) vegetarian restaurants in Stuttgart: Ceres (a vegetarian "chain" restaurant) and Excelsior.
- Ceres was located at Lange Str. 5. The owner or manager (?) in 1929 was J. Haberstroh ... I am not sure if this address (number 5) still exists today. Anyway, this is practically right across the little street where Doen Doen Burger is - their address is technically Kronprinzstraße 24. However, their entrance is on Lange Straße. Google maps does find "Lange Straße 5" but points to something like an inner courtyard, to which I did not see any point of access anywhere (if it exists). Lange Str. 3 is across the bigger Kronprinzstraße, and the first house on Lange Straße in the "Doen Doen Burger side" of Kronprinzstraße is Lange Str. 9 (current occupant: "Maredo Beef"). Google maps also lists two night clubs at Lange Str. 7, which is further up the street (where you would except number 11 or 13 to be. If you walk a few more metres up Lange Straße and turn left onto Calwer Straße, there is a Japanese restaurant ("Kikuya"). You can then turn left again into some kind of shopping mall-like area with clothing stores. Ceres may have been located somewhere there - and all the current buildings there may be from after World War II. According to a newspaper report from 2017, the Ceres restaurant in Stuttgart used to be on Kanzleistraße (today called Willi-Bleicher-Straße) in the 1920s.
The approximate area of Lange Straße 5 in March 2026. Where you can see the "Maredo" sign, that is Lange Str. 9:
Around the corner on Calwer Straße:
- Excelsior was located at Kronprinzstraße 3 - just down the street (towards the central railway station of Doen Doen Burger, which is at Kronprinzstraße 24. Around 1929, the owner or manager (?) of Excelsior was Reinhold Kirsten.
