The 12 best vegetarian restaurants in Rotterdam

// 12 of 22 vetted Rotterdam spots · updated September 2026

A grilled-vegetable plate bolted onto a steakhouse menu is not a vegetarian restaurant. These are the Rotterdam kitchens where the meat-free cooking is the reason to go — Dutch Artisan Market, Middle Eastern Dutch and Organic among them: 12 spots, 6 of them fully vegan, pulled from the 22 we have vetted in the city. Chosen the way locals choose, never through a marketing budget.

14.9
Bar Bocht
VeganAllergy friendly
Bar Bocht is a vegetable-led coffee, wine and eating bar on the Goudsesingel that changes shape as the day goes on. Mornings are specialty coffee and pastry; midday brings seasonal lunches built from produce bought straight from farmers around Rotterdam; evenings turn to natural wines from small growers and a warm vegetable dish with bread and salad for around €15. The kitchen puts vegetables at the centre rather than at the side, with vegan versions marked and allergen-friendly options recorded, so plant-based eaters are not reading the menu defensively. No reservations — it runs on walk-ins, which suits the room. Run by the team behind neighbouring Restaurant Rotonde.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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24.6
Dutch Artisan Market
Kaapse Fenix
Kaapse Fenix is a waterfront food hall in the Katendrecht dockyards, where a run of independent makers — brewers, cheesemongers, small kitchens — share one enormous shed on the Veerlaan. You eat by wandering, which suits a group that cannot agree: plates around €15, vegetarian options across several of the stalls, and terrace seating on the Maas when the weather cooperates. The scale of the old harbour building does most of the atmospheric work, and the mix of producers keeps the quality above the usual food-court standard. It is the clearest single expression of what Katendrecht has become — industrial bones, independent tenants, the river in front.
Reservations: Book online — the restaurant takes reservations through its website.
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34.5
Middle Eastern Dutch
Bazar Rotterdam
Bazar occupies the ground floor of Hotel Bazar on the Witte de Withstraat, and the room — high, ornate, permanently full — is half the reason to come. The cooking is Middle Eastern by way of Rotterdam: mezze, flatbreads and grilled plates, with North African and Turkish threads running through a menu that has fed the street's gallery-goers, students and families for years. Vegetarians do genuinely well here rather than being handed a single option, and there is terrace seating for the warmer months. Mains come in around €16, low enough that the room's grandeur never translates into the bill. One of the most reliably busy tables in Rotterdam.
Reservations: Book online — the restaurant takes reservations through its website.
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4
Organic
Spirit
VeganOrganic
Spirit on the Mariniersweg is a self-service buffet where everything is organic and everything is vegetarian — around fifty dishes laid out across breakfast, lunch, dinner and patisserie, with vegan options among them. You take what you want rather than order, which makes it unusually easy for a group with different diets and different appetites to eat together without anyone compromising. The range is wider than the format suggests: hibachi-style fried rice, jackfruit pastry with jalapeño and wakame, banana pancakes, tiramisu. Around €18 a head, à la carte, and rated a neighbourhood favourite by a local food blog. Central Rotterdam, no menu negotiation required.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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5
Japanese
Bento Café
Allergy friendly
Bento Café is a Japanese spot on Weena-Zuid, close to Rotterdam Centraal, that independent local sources flag as a neighbourhood favourite. It records both vegetarian and allergen-friendly options, which is not a given in casual Japanese kitchens. A straightforward, well-regarded option in a part of the city better known for offices than for eating well.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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6
Local
Bar dertien
Allergy friendly
Bar dertien sits on the Linker Rottekade, on the water where the Rotte runs into Rotterdam — a quiet stretch of quay rather than a busy street corner. It is a local bar first, singled out as a neighbourhood favourite by independent sources rather than by any guide, and the kitchen records both vegetarian and allergen-friendly options. The setting does much of the work: a canal-side address a short walk from the centre, with the water in front of you.
Reservations: Book online — the restaurant takes reservations through its website.
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7
Surinamese
De Kade
Vegan
De Kade cooks Surinamese food on the West-Kruiskade, the street that has carried Rotterdam's Surinamese, Chinese and Cape Verdean kitchens for decades — the right address for it, and a competitive one. Four independent local sources name it a neighbourhood favourite, which on a street this dense with options is the endorsement that matters. Both vegetarian and vegan dishes are on the menu rather than improvised on request, so a table split between meat-eaters and plant-based eaters works without negotiation. Mains sit around €16, ordered à la carte. A vegetarian-friendly Surinamese restaurant in central Rotterdam that the neighbourhood, not the internet, put on the map.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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8
Casa Thai
Casa Thai is a Rotterdam restaurant that independent local sources single out as a neighbourhood favourite, with vegetarian options recorded on the menu. A word-of-mouth address rather than a guidebook one.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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9
Japanese
Hinoki
Hinoki is a Japanese kitchen on the Keizerstraat in Rotterdam with mains around €10 — a price that puts a proper sit-down meal in the same bracket as a sandwich. Two independent local sources name it a neighbourhood favourite, and vegetarian options are on the menu. Small, cheap and well thought of by people who live nearby rather than by rankings.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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10
Asian
Vega No Vega
Vegan
Vega No Vega cooks Asian food on the Glashaven, near Rotterdam's old harbour, and the name says the arrangement plainly: vegetarian and vegan dishes are the menu rather than a section of it. That makes it a straightforward answer to the recurring problem of finding an Asian kitchen where plant-based eaters get more than fried tofu. Mains come in around €18, ordered à la carte, and a local food blog names it a neighbourhood favourite. A vegan-friendly Asian restaurant in central Rotterdam, close enough to the Maas for a walk afterwards.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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11
Regional
The Harvest
Vegan
The Harvest builds its menu backwards from the farm: ingredients come directly from local growers, and what is in season decides what is on the counter on the Proveniersstraat, a quiet street behind Rotterdam Centraal. You assemble your own bowl in three steps — a protein (meat, vegetarian or vegan), a base, then two vegetable dishes — from around seventeen preparations, all made in-house. Vegetables lead rather than accompany, which is the point the kitchen is making, and vegan diners build from the same full menu as everyone else. Mains around €18, à la carte, and a local food blog rates it a neighbourhood favourite.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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12
Regional
Happy Food and Health
VeganGluten-free
Happy Food and Health is a fully plant-based restaurant on the Maashavenweg, out on the water south of the centre with the Rotterdam skyline in view. What sets it apart is structural: two entirely separate kitchens, one gluten-free, which means coeliac diners get the full menu rather than the two dishes usually left to them. Everything is made in-house, and the sustainability argument runs through the sourcing rather than sitting in a paragraph on the wall. The setting is deliberately calm — closer to a beach pavilion than a city restaurant. Mains come in around €18, à la carte, and a local food blog rates it a neighbourhood favourite.
Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.
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