Vegan Augsburg Guide: Where to Eat Plant-Based
Vegan Augsburg picks: fully vegan restaurants and cafés, a Vietnamese counter with no fixed menu, and a market bakery for cinnamon rolls, cake and wraps.
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Vegan Augsburg is easiest to plan around two clusters: the streets between Königsplatz and the Kresslesmühle, where several fully vegan kitchens sit within a few minutes of each other, and the Stadtmarkt, where a vegan bakery stand covers coffee-and-cake stops. Nude Food, DREIZEHN and Emmi's Kitchen serve entirely plant-based menus, K41 cooks vegetarian and vegan Vietnamese food, and Der Katzentempel pairs vegan plates with rescue cats. This guide takes each place in turn, says what it is best for, and flags the ordering quirks that change how you walk in.
Vegan in Augsburg in one answer
For a full sit-down meal, head for Emmi's Kitchen on Kirchgasse or Nude Food on Schaezlerstraße; for a plant-based café stop with a terrace, DREIZEHN inside the Kresslesmühle is the pick. If you want something you cannot predict, K41 on Konrad-Adenauer-Allee cooks a rotating seasonal menu with no printed card, and Elvie at the Stadtmarkt is the quick option when a market stand suits your schedule better than a table. The cat café on Jakoberstraße is a different proposition: you go for the cats as much as the food, so skip it if a room full of them does not appeal.
None of these places is a vegan imitation of a Swabian Gasthaus. They are bowls, burgers, brunch plates, Vietnamese cooking and baked goods, so treat them as their own category alongside the traditional restaurants in our guide to the best restaurants in Augsburg and the wider picture of what to eat in Augsburg.
Nude Food on Schaezlerstraße: plant-based bowls near Königsplatz
Nude Food sits on Schaezlerstraße right by Königsplatz, next to the LEW world, and builds its menu around plant-based bowls: mixed bowls of warm and fresh ingredients, plus porridge and overnight oats at the breakfast end. The useful detail for a first visit is portion size, since the bowls also come in tapas size, so you can try a couple before committing to a full one.
Leave room for dessert: Bliss Balls and a Snickers-style slice are the sweet finish worth planning for. The address is central enough that Nude Food works as a midday reset between errands around the Königsplatz end of the Innenstadt, and the tapas-size bowls make it a reasonable stop even if you have already eaten.
DREIZEHN in the Kresslesmühle: the all-vegan café with a terrace
DREIZEHN occupies the Kresslesmühle on Barfüßerstraße, a cozy café where neither the drinks nor the food contain animal products, and that total vegan approach is the whole idea behind the business. It is run by two young women, and the room feels correspondingly informal, with a terrace tucked among the neighboring shops inside the Kresslesmühle.
Expect fresh, savory dishes rather than a long composed menu, which makes DREIZEHN a good fit for a late lunch or a coffee stop that turns into a meal. Because the terrace is the draw in warm weather, it is the place on this list where showing up without a plan works best.
Emmi's Kitchen on Kirchgasse: breakfast, burgers and soul food
Emmi's Kitchen opened on Kirchgasse in June 2021 as a vegan restaurant, and its range runs from breakfast through juicy burgers and soul food to sweet treats, which means it can cover more than one meal of your day. That breadth is why it is the safest single booking if you are eating vegan with a group that includes skeptics.
The room is chic and modern, with seating inside and out, so an evening visit and a morning one feel like different outings. For a plant-based breakfast in Augsburg specifically, this is a strong option on the list; the rest of the city's morning options are gathered in our guide to Breakfast and Brunch in Augsburg.
K41 on Konrad-Adenauer-Allee: Vietnamese cooking with no written menu
K41 is a small Vietnamese counter on Konrad-Adenauer-Allee, named after its street number, where vegetarian and vegan dishes are cooked fresh. The owner, Lienus Nguyen, works without a printed menu: dishes change regularly and follow what is in season, and the kitchen serves them as a Glücksteller, a single plate put together for you, or as a full Glücksmenü. If you like deciding nothing, that is the appeal; if you want to read a list first, it is the drawback.
One unusual feature changes how you order: you can bring your own ingredients and have them worked into your dish. The kitchen also changes with the seasons rather than holding a fixed card, and the atmosphere is family-style and friendly rather than polished, which suits a casual lunch. Check the day's hours on Facebook, where Lienus posts the current opening times, before making the walk out along the avenue.
Der Katzentempel on Jakoberstraße: vegan plates and rescue cats
Der Katzentempel on Jakoberstraße has operated since October 2022 as a cat café where the entire menu is vegan, and the resident cats were adopted from animal welfare organizations, each with its own history and character. The kitchen uses the menu to show how much flavor plant cooking carries, and the appeal is that non-vegans eat here happily too.
Treat this as a cat room first and a restaurant second. If you are allergic, indifferent to cats, or want a quiet table where nobody wanders past your plate, choose DREIZEHN or Emmi's instead; the food is comparable in ambition, and the company is not for everyone.
Elvie at the Stadtmarkt: cinnamon rolls, cake and savory wraps
Elvie is a vegan bakery stand at the Stadtmarkt on Fuggerstraße, run by founders Tim and Nadine, where the cinnamon rolls, cakes and wraps are made on site and are entirely plant-based. The stand also serves changing daily dishes built from fresh, seasonal ingredients, so a market morning can turn into a full lunch without leaving the market.
This is the fastest of the options here in style: you eat at a market stand rather than at a served table, which suits a day when a sit-down meal would eat into your time. The Stadtmarkt setting also means you can put together a mixed plate of things from several stalls, Elvie included, which is where our Augsburg Markthalle notes help.
How to choose: restaurant meal, café stop or market snack
Sort the list by the moment rather than by ranking. Breakfast belongs to Emmi's Kitchen or Nude Food's porridge; lunch can be a K41 Glücksteller, a bowl at Nude Food or a wrap at Elvie; coffee and cake is DREIZEHN's terrace or Elvie's cinnamon rolls; dinner works best at Emmi's or DREIZEHN, with K41 depending on the day's seasonal list.
Two practical trade-offs decide the rest. K41 has no printed card and rewards flexibility, while Der Katzentempel comes with cats in the room, so it rewards cat lovers and not everyone else. Everything else is straightforward: walk in, order at the table or counter, and pay as you would anywhere in the city.
Ordering notes: bowls, Soulfood and Glücksteller
The vocabulary is not standard German restaurant language. A bowl is exactly what it sounds like, a mixed dish of warm and cold components; soulfood at Emmi's means hearty comfort plates; a Glücksteller at K41 is a single composed plate, and the Glücksmenü is the larger set version of the same idea.
Because these kitchens are fully vegan or explicitly vegetarian and vegan, you do not need to negotiate substitutions the way you might elsewhere. Ask what is seasonal at K41, ask for a tapas-size bowl at Nude Food if you are unsure, and if you want to bring ingredients to K41, say so when you arrive rather than after ordering.
Where to sit and when to go
Seating shapes the choice as much as the food. DREIZEHN has the terrace among the neighboring shops in the Kresslesmühle, Emmi's Kitchen seats guests inside and out, and Elvie is a stand at the Stadtmarkt, so the market's own rhythm governs when a snack there is possible.
For a midday break, match the venue to the weather and your patience: a market stand when you have twenty minutes, a terrace when the sun is out, a table at Emmi's when you want to sit properly. K41 stays a walk from the center, so build it into a plan rather than tacking it on.
Which vegan Augsburg stop fits your day?
For most visitors the answer is Emmi's Kitchen for a proper meal and Elvie for a market snack, with DREIZEHN as the terrace stop in between. Choose Nude Food when you want a central bowl near Königsplatz, K41 when you are happy to eat whatever the season dictates, and Der Katzentempel only if the cats are the point.
If your trip leans toward traditional Swabian cooking and you just need one plant-based meal, slot Elvie or Nude Food into a single lunch and spend the rest of your eating budget on the city's schnitzel and roast pork. Both work best as part of a day that already has you in the Innenstadt.
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