Vegan Guide to Barcelona

New Country. New challenges and adventures. New places to explore and vegan finds to make. Each time I go to another city I check out vegan places I would like to go to in advance and often make a list of accidentally vegan products to find in supermarkets. For Barcelona I made a good list and I can tell you this city is actually a paradise for vegans as myself! Below I will give you a number of the places I went to and my favorite spots of them, what I found in supermarkets besides telling you a bit about my overall experience I had in Barcelona when it comes to veganism. 

Vegesana

This was the place we had dinner at on our day of arrival. It's quite hidden and was 2 minutes away from our Airbnb. The owners are super sweet and the food is alright. My dish was very tasty because it had so many crunchy peanuts inside. Not disappointing but also not outrageous as there are definitely better options around.

La Trocadero

This place is pretty close to La Sagrada Familia so we wen't there spontaneously for lunch on our first day. We had burgers, fries and onion rings. It was okay but also not a bummer. Depends if you're a fan of fast food which I'm actually not to 100%.

Chök - The Chocolate Kitchen 

Chök was the place where I went to twice because firstly there are several stores around and secondly counts to my top 3 of the places we went to!! It's not fully vegan but has lots of options and told me that they even want to expand their vegan and gluten-free range in future. The first two pictures are from our first day where we had the Nutella Donut which was filled with a generous amount of vegan Nutella. The other pictures are from Friday in the store on the Carrer del Carme 3 located quite central. We both shared a white chocolate, raspberry & peanut cronut as well a dark chocolate & orange cronut which was topped with vegan vanilla creme/pudding. We both absolutely LOVED them! Our fav was the white choc one!! So fresh and fluffy and beats everything I tried before 💜

Vegan Bowls

This was a place where I actually planned to get more than a coffee but somehow wasn't completely convinced as there was no place to sit down comfortably. Only two tiny tables within the corner(it's not an actual store you can walk inside). I had the Pink Beetroot Latte and one Unicorn Latte both with oat milk on two different days and liked the beetroot more as the unicorn one wasn't really colorful and beetroot is a little cheaper. The taste was great tho and for 2,10€ a really nice price :) They sell everything from healthy fresh bowls to Mac n' Cheese as well different kind of sweets.

Maoz Vegetarian

So I was about to freak out over this place but now looking at the online menu I'm a bit scared that I got wrong information. While ordering I got told everything is vegan(and the yogurt sauce is made with soy) but online it says their yogurt sauce is vegetarian so please double or triple check with the staff :) So it was pretty late already, nearly midnight and spontaneously went to Maoz which is located pretty central near the Gothic Quarter and El Raval. You can get yourself either a bowl or a pita bread with falafels, hummus and baba ganoush. Now you have some kind of buffet with lots of different options and sauces to choose from. You pay about 5,90€(as far as I can remember) once and can fill your bowl or bread as many times as you want!!! Yess!! Dangerous for me as I can never get enough haha. So in the end we filled the bowl again and took it home so had our lunch for the day after :)

Roots and Rolls

THIS PLACE 🖤🖤🖤 
I was just so stunned you can't imagine! It's not only the food but the service and atmosphere inside. We both had the tasting menu with several things to try which is just perfect for two people. I'll explain each dish a bit more in detail below:

Beer for Chris, Kombucha for me

Cauliflower Popcorn. super super tasty! The dip could've be a bit more deeper in flavor tho but apart from that super good!

I'm not the biggest fan of fake meat but these were the best fake meat skewers I ever tried. The Satay Heura made with Heura soy meat which I had for the first time. And the peanut sauce. So delicious! Very spicy and strong in taste but we both loved it 🖤

These were the Ny Noodles in a peanut & sesame dressing along with cucumber, kohlrabi and carrot. I think one of my favorites even if there wasn't much of sauce/dressing but you were able to taste it all!

Gyozas. Loved them! The filling was super tasty which consists of sesame, tofu, ginger and shiitake mushrooms in a sweet dashi sauce!

A variety of different kinds of sushi. Each was very tasty but we both loved the most left one the most which was with mango and avocado.

And afterwards a cheesecake and coffee. The coffee was amazing! The cake was alright, not the best one as it wasn't much like a cheesecake. But still good and they have different dessert to choose from such as a brownie and sticky toffee pudding :) What I have to add is that many dishes are very flavored/salty, but not all. For example noticed that with the meat skewers and the peanut sauce. If you know about the German tastebuds you can tell that we love a good amount of salt and flavor in our dishes so it was definitely a good point for both of us :)


Santoni Cafe

This place was also one of my favorites(okay I think there are more than three now already haha) but the selection there was insane for such a good price. Both perfectly to eat on the go or within the small shop. I'm pretty sure it's a family business. They deserve a lot more attention in my opinion! We tried different empanadas(I had pumpkin Chris four cheese and ham & cheese) and a chocolate croissant, served warm. Everything is super affordable too!

Teresa Carles

We wen't to this place on Saturday after we decided not to go to the Cat Bar(which has vegan burgers but weren't in the mood for it) and Vegetalia Gotico(was a bit too pricy in my opinion). Chris had burgers and I got a roasted carrot and avocado salad while sharing the polenta fries which are so INSANELY good. you need to try them! They're also super cheap with 2,50€ or 3,50€ can't remember exactly but worth it! Just ask for an additional dip such as ketchup or mayo it's free.

Ice Cream Bio

Okay now get ready for the real food porn here. This was the place we went to on our last evening. We were actually supposed to go to the store right next to it called Demasie who has cinnamon rolls but the vegan options were sold out, got us a Banana Latte there only and bought vegan bubble waffles(Chris had Sexy Caramel I went for Tiramisu) and well, what do I need to say? I never had a bubble waffle before in my life and I'm OBSESSED 💜 This is a real experience here you shouldn't miss out on! 

Lastly I wanna list you a bunch of other recommendations and things I found in the supermarkets:

I can't remember the store of the cookies below but this is a good time to mention how common and known veganism is in Barcelona. In literally every store I went into asking about vegan options everyone was well informed and able to immediately tell me what is vegan and what not. For example in this store these two cookie versions are. The store is located somewhere in the Gothic Quarter Area that's what I can remember. A few streets further there was also an Italian ice crem shop with a few vegan options. 

Then you NEED to try this milk!!!! They have a huge range of different kind of milk alternatives and flavors from the brand Vive Soy but this one which has different nuts inside such as hazelnut, almond, cashew and walnut is the BEST MILK I've ever tried!!!! We also had the Piña Colada one which was good too and really interesting. I would have loved to try out all of them to be honest :D 

Then we went to Lidl and wow, I was stunned! Look at all the vegan options you have there and this wasn't even all of it!! Everything was well labelled and you definitely won't leave the store without empty bags. We got the vegan candy/liquorice as well the tofu dessert. 

If you stumble across these cookies which are available in many stores, go for them!! Super chunky chocolate cookies. Loved them(and Chris too!!) 🍪🍪

Lastly something you better NOT eat are these oranges/mandarines :D Chris got me one from a tree I spotted in the dark and got super excited to find out it was just bitter and sour in taste. Then a few people on Instagram told me they're actually not edible :D

I hope this review will help you a bit on your next or first Barcelona travel trip :) You definitely won't have to be worried about starving as you have endless vegan options. Let me know if you have any questions about anything here I'm happy to help you out!! 

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