Vegetarian Italian Restaurants in NYC: Vegan Menus Too

Vegetarian Italian restaurants in NYC are easiest to find where the menu says so, and of the seven checked for this guide only three mark vegetarian or vegan pastas: John’s of 12th Street (a full vegan menu), Bigoi Venezia (V or VG on six of twelve sauced pastas) and Fumo (a vegan-tagged pesto spaghetti). Rubirosa, Wild, Olio e Più and Locanda Verde publish a written swap, a gluten-free kitchen or a key with almost nothing under it. The dish marks, hours and prices below come from each restaurant’s own website, checked in October 2026.

Which NYC Italian restaurants label vegetarian or vegan dishes?

How the seven were read

The guide counts four kinds of published signal: a separate vegan menu, a V, VG or vegan mark beside a dish, a written substitution rule, and a general statement that vegan options exist. It does not judge ingredients, which only a kitchen can confirm, and it omits restaurants whose sites could not be read in October 2026. Cost for two adds the two cheapest labeled dishes, before starters, drinks, tax and tip. This publication did not visit or phone any of these restaurants.

Best for a full vegan dinner: John’s of 12th Street, East Village

John’s of 12th Street, at 302 East 12th Street, says on its About page that it has served “traditional gravy and red-sauce Italian food” since 1908 and is “proud to offer a full VEGAN menu for more than 10 years.” Its Menus page gives that menu a tab and states: “We use dedicated cooking utensils for preparing vegan dishes.” None of the other six pages read states a utensil practice. The vegan tab lists six pastas, from marinara at $14.95 to vegan ravioli with spinach and tofu at $25.95, and prices two mains level with their meat versions: the Seitan Parmigiana with vegan cheese is $27.95, the same as the Chicken Parmigiana with Spaghetti, and the vegan ragu over housemade pappardelle is $34.95, the same as the Tuscan Ragu.

What to order: the Seitan Parmigiana with vegan cheese ($27.95), or the Vegan Ravioli ($25.95).

Cost for two: 31.90 dollars for the marinara ($14.95) and the mushroom-sauce pasta ($16.95).

Booking: by phone, after 3PM, on 212-475-9531. The Hours page lists the restaurant open daily, 4-10PM Sunday to Wednesday and 4-10:30PM Thursday to Saturday; the Menus page gives 4-10PM for takeout and delivery, so confirm the closing time.

Best for a marked pasta, vegetarian or vegan: Bigoi Venezia, Upper East Side

Bigoi Venezia, at 1415 Second Avenue, prints a legend, “V - Vegetarian | VG - Vegan,” and applies it down its pasta list. Of twelve sauced pastas, six carry a mark: Grana E Pepe and Ai Funghi are V, and Puttanesca, Pizzaiola Ai Funghi, Al Pomodoro and Aglio, Olio E Peperoncino are VG. The other six carry none, nor does the Plain Pasta at $10.50. Every sauced pasta is $16.90 except Al Pomodoro at $15.70, so the marked half costs no more than the rest.

What to order: the Puttanesca (VG), $16.90, with Castelvetrano and Kalamata olives, tomatoes, garlic and capers.

Cost for two: 32.60 dollars for the Al Pomodoro ($15.70) and the Puttanesca ($16.90).

Booking: the pages read publish no weekly dining hours or booking rule, so confirm before going.

Best for a mixed table with one vegan: Fumo, Upper West Side

Fumo’s Upper West Side restaurant, at 2791 Broadway, tags dishes “vegan” inside its regular menu rather than on a separate tab. The Spaghetti Vegan Pesto, with organic cashews, fresh basil and baby spinach, is $25 at dinner, the same as the Spaghetti Carbonara beside it. A Vegan pizza is $21, two salads are tagged “gluten free, vegan,” and vegan cheese is a $3 substitution on the Eggplant Parm. The lunch tab prints one pasta price, 14, with no dollar sign, above a list that ends with the same pesto spaghetti, so confirm it.

What to order: the Spaghetti Vegan Pesto ($25).

Cost for two: 46 dollars for the pesto spaghetti ($25) and the Vegan pizza ($21).

Booking: a Reservations form on the site; the location page also lists 646.822.2921. Hours are 11am to 10pm Sunday and Monday, to 10:30pm Tuesday to Thursday and to 11pm Friday and Saturday. Other rooms in the neighborhood are in this site’s Upper West Side guide.

Best for vegan cheese on a pizza: Rubirosa, Mulberry Street

Rubirosa, at 235 Mulberry Street, marks no dish vegan or vegetarian, but its Menus page spells out what can and cannot be made vegan. The pizza list says “we can substitute for vegan cheese”; the toppings note adds “there is cheese in the pesto and vodka sauce, pizzas with either cannot be made vegan,” which rules out The TIE DYE Pizza and the Vodka pizza; and the pasta section states “All of our homemade pastas contain eggs, except our lumache and cavatelli pasta.” The menu text read here prints no dollar prices, so confirm them. The Location page lists 11AM to 11PM daily and the phone (212) 965-0500.

Best for a gluten-free kitchen with a vegan crust: Wild, West Village

Wild, at 535 Hudson Street, prints “100% Gluten-Free” at the top of its menu and says its pizzas use “our famous gluten-free vegan crust.” Its pastas are handmade “in a 100% gluten-free kitchen,” but none is marked vegan. Elsewhere the menu uses the word on the Festa Nachos (“Vegan $23”), a brunch Tofu Scramble with vegan cheese and a “Substitute Vegan Cheese” at $3.00. The home page lists Monday to Friday from 11:00 AM and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM, closing at 10:30 PM Sunday to Thursday and 11:00 PM Friday and Saturday.

The Events page, checked October 22, lists Saturday, October 31st, as 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM, so confirm that day’s hours with Wild; reservations go through Resy.

Guests with celiac disease should confirm with the restaurant; this site’s gluten-free pasta guide lists what to ask.

Which menus print a legend but mark almost nothing?

Olio e Più’s Greenwich Village menu page, for 3 Greenwich Avenue, prints a key, “GF Gluten-Free” and “VG Vegan,” but VG appears once, on the gelato and sorbetto line, and none of its eight handmade pastas, $26 to $34, carries a V or VG. The Bryant Park and East Village menu pages repeat both. Locanda Verde’s Tribeca menus page, for 377 Greenwich Street, tags “vegan” once, on a $6 Carrot Cake Muffin in its bakery list, and “gluten free” once, on an $8 Pistachio Coffee Cake; the dinner list has neither.

Outside the seven, Via Carota, at 51 Grove Street, offers a sentence instead of marks. Its Questions page says the menu has “several vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options,” without naming them. The same page adds “We do not offer reservations at this time.”

How many vegan pastas do these menus list?

By their own menus, three of the seven list any: John’s has six in its Pasta section, Bigoi Venezia marks four VG and Fumo tags one, eleven in all. Among the eleven, the lowest dollar-marked price is John’s marinara at $14.95 and the highest is John’s vegan ravioli at $25.95, an 11-dollar spread; Fumo’s lunch tab prints only 14 for its pastas. Fumo’s pesto lists organic cashews, and John’s marks its vegan meatballs and vegan ragu “CONTAINS NUTS.” Anyone with a food allergy or celiac disease should confirm ingredients, nuts, gluten and cross-contact with the restaurant before ordering; the marks above are each restaurant’s own and can change.

Is Italian food vegetarian friendly?

Partly. The menus read here signal it in four forms: a vegan tab (John’s), marks on pastas (Bigoi, Fumo), written substitution rules (Rubirosa, Fumo, Wild), and a legend or sentence with little under it (Olio e Più, Locanda Verde, Via Carota). Where a menu marks nothing, the question belongs in the booking call. This site’s course-by-course ordering guide covers reading a menu; La Superlativa’s booking guide for mixed tables counts meat-free pastas at five Manhattan restaurants.

Frequently asked questions

Are there vegetarian Italian restaurants in NYC?

Yes, though only some label their menus. Bigoi Venezia at 1415 Second Avenue marks two pastas V and four VG, and John’s of 12th Street at 302 East 12th Street runs a separate vegan menu. Other menus read here print a key or tag with little under it, so ask which dishes are vegetarian.

Is there a vegan Italian restaurant in New York?

None of the seven restaurants checked here is vegan-only, since each lists meat or fish dishes, but John’s of 12th Street in the East Village offers a full vegan menu, which its About page says it has offered for more than 10 years. Its Menus page says vegan dishes contain no animal ingredients.

Which Italian restaurants in NYC have a vegan menu?

John’s of 12th Street is the one of the seven with a separate Vegan tab, covering soup, appetizers, mains, pasta and dessert as of October 2026. Fumo’s Upper West Side menu tags a vegan pasta, pizza and two salads in its regular list.

Can you get vegan pasta at an Italian restaurant?

At three of the seven, by their own menus: John’s lists six vegan pastas from $14.95 to $25.95, Bigoi Venezia marks four VG pastas at $15.70 to $16.90, and Fumo tags the $25 Spaghetti Vegan Pesto. Rubirosa says its homemade pastas contain eggs except lumache and cavatelli.