Best Plant Based Restaurants in Bogotá

Bogotá as any other mega city, does not resist veganism — it has already established a strong plant based scene. What used to be a niche request is now a marker of taste and status. While visitors still flock to parrillas and traditional meat-heavy plates, the city’s real travel dining culture has shifted somewhere else entirely — into kitchens led by chefs who treat Colombia’s biodiversity as luxury.

With more than 50,000 native plant species and a pantry the world envies, Bogotá doesn’t need substitutes or lab meats to impress. It cooks directly from the land — uchuva, arracacha, cacao husk, Amazonian fruits — and turns them into menus that feel lighter, sharper, and culturally new. The tables that matter now are green — and they’re the ones locals quietly recommend.

The Fine-Dining Pillars

These are the places where a three-hour dinner feels like a story, where the tablecloth matters and the tasting menu evolves by season. For travelers who plan their trips around restaurants, this is where your list starts.

Casa Lelyté 

Hidden in the winding, leafy curves of Chapinero Alto, Casa Lelyté feels less like arriving at a restaurant and more like entering a private estate. Most tables are booked by designers, gallerists, digital founders, or couples who know to reserve before the algorithm catches on. Think: soft lamps, ethereal courtyard foliage, ceramics sourced from local artisans, and a tasting menu built around Colombian biodiversity — uchuva, arracacha, sour guava, smoked mushrooms, toasted cacao shells, and potatoes in every texture imaginable.

Vibe: Boutique-chic, intimate, deliberately slow
Order: Smoked mushroom risotto — the dish everyone whispers about
Why locals go: It feels like the opposite of Bogotá traffic — slow, intentional, oxygen-rich

Harvest 

Harvest feels like Bogotá in 2026 — sunlight, ceramics, good coffee, and the kind of food that makes you feel like you’re doing something right for your body. It’s not preachy, it’s not restrictive — it’s lifestyle dining with bowls and plates built from vegetables and grains that actually satisfy. Most regulars here are the type who plan meetings around where the light hits the table.

Vibe: Clean, warm, café-living energy — soft music, laptops, slow breakfasts.
Order: A focaccia (always), pour-over, and a detox juice — the trio that defines the morning routine.
Why locals go: It’s a place where you come for food and stay out of inertia — you simply don’t want to leave.

Global Palette

Colombia is a layered identity — Indigenous, African, Arab, European, Andean, Amazonian — and Bogotá’s vegan restaurants reflect that blend. These are the dining rooms that feel international without losing their Colombian accent.

Pianta

There used to be a belief that vegan Italian was an impossibility. Then Pianta opened — sourdough pizza, silky egg-free pasta, cashew-based burrata, and botanical cocktails served like perfume. Fridays here are a ritual — you share gnocchi, you stay for dessert, and you close the place unintentionally.

Vibe: Minimalist-cool, high-energy, evenings that stretch
Order: Vegan cheese plate — and pair it with a red
Why locals go: First dates, social nights, and late dinners after openings or shows

Mestizo Vegano 

Near the university district, but its clientele is far more varied: filmmakers, professors, activists, and chefs on their day off. Mestizo focuses on Latin-rooted vegan identity — ceviche without fish, Pique Macho without meat, and a mushroom-based ajiaco that tastes like Bogotá — just without the heaviness.

Vibe: Cultural, bold, full of color and noise
Order: Ajiaco (mandatory once)
Why locals go: You eat with nostalgia and innovation at the same time

Artisan & Casual 

Bogotá’s vegan brilliance isn’t only inside white-tablecloth rooms. Some of the most important food movements here are casual — because accessibility spreads culture.

Bahji

Vegan sourdough might sound cliché until you try Bahji. Their Atelier and Nogal shops are always full — bags of chickpea-ferment breads, brownies with tahini undertones, and baristas who know names. The brand expanded into legume-based “Veggie Beans” — showing Bogotá that vegan doesn’t need to be substitute-food — it can be its own world.

Vibe: Warm, fragrant, community-oriented
Order: Specialty loaf + manual brew
Why locals go: It’s where you buy bread and accidentally stay for an hour

Cero Pollito

If Bogotá had to hold one fast-casual flag for vegan dining — this is it. Cero Pollito’s seitan “fried chicken” has a crunch that converts skeptics. It’s where athletes, young office workers, and designers pick up fuel before heading back to studios.

Vibe: Contemporary fast-casual, always busy
Order: Buffalo sandwich
Why locals go: You can eat like you’re cheating on your diet — without actually cheating

Artesano

Artesano isn’t a vegan or vegetarian restaurant — and that’s precisely why it matters here. It is the gateway place that made plant-forward plates feel normal for office workers, families, parents, and non-vegan friends. Roasted vegetables, grain bowls, soups, and dairy-optional bites make it easy to order well even if you didn’t intend to “eat vegan” that day.

Vibe: Neutral, democratic, everywhere — Bogotá’s comfort-zone place to eat clean.
Order: A grain-and-greens bowl and a soup — the simplest combination, and still one of the most reliable.
Why locals go: Because it’s a plant-forward option that fits into real life — not just curated dining moments.

Bacu

Bacu is unmistakably Bogotá-now: Scandinavian-lean interiors, pastries on stone slabs, sunlight that turns brunch into content, plates that lean vegetable-first without needing to say it out loud. Not fully vegan, not formally vegetarian — but functionally a place where plants dominate the plate.

Vibe: Minimalist, modern, stylish — half café, half meeting-room.
Order: Seasonal plates and a pastry — ideally eaten slowly.
Why locals go: Because life feels more curated when you’re sitting here — even if you’re just having lunch.

The Pot

Before bowls became a category, The Pot invented the template — clean ingredients, Asian-fusion flavor profiles, customizable build-your-own systems. Now it’s an institution — quick lunches, nutritionists-approved, and just sophisticated enough for clients with midday meetings nearby.

Vibe: Modern, clarity-forward
Order: Thai bowl + tofu
Why locals go: Lunch that makes you feel sharp, not sleepy

Stankov

Where Bogotá’s youth goes when they want something loud and unapologetic. Neon menus, American-style burgers, “meteoritos” nuggets, fries — the whole point here is that nothing feels restrictive. This is vegan — and nobody says the word vegan out loud.

Vibe: Edgy, loud, energy-packed
Order: Burger bowl
Why locals go: It’s the coolest place to drag your non-vegan friends

The Local Method — How to Actually Find Vegan Bogotá

Here is a simple truth: the best vegan finds in Bogotá are the ones you find on your own, like all great things.

The most memorable meals often happen when:

• you walk Chapinero Alto’s curved hills
• you get lost in Parkway in La Soledad
• you stumble into a courtyard where someone is fermenting kombucha
• a chalkboard menu says “almuerzo del día” and a line of locals is already forming

Bogotá’s plant-based scene is fragmented — not centralized. That fragmentation is what gives it texture and personality.

Why This Matters

In Bogotá, vegan food has escaped the box of “restriction.” It’s now a reflection of biodiversity, a symbol of status and contemporary tast, and a way of eating that lets you move through a day lightly

For locals, plant-based eating isn’t a moral identity — it’s simply what keeps you functioning in a high-altitude, high-speed, high-ambition city.