Vegan guide to Armenia
Where to eat, what to buy and where to go — a guide to vegan Armenia.
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See also the guide Vegan places in Yerevan by Vegetarian.
Yerevan
Vegan places in Yerevan
Kruzhok. These people prove that vegans are not herbivores. Chef Dasha reinvents familiar dishes — solyanka, say, or pancakes with mince. With the soups, take the enormous not-fish sandwich! There is also a big selection of craft beer, kombucha and board games for an evening with friends.
73 Israelyan St | Instagram, Telegram channel
EcoSpace. Stunning, Instagram-ready food: ethical, delicious and good for you. We recommend the raw cheesecakes, especially the blackcurrant one.
24 Moskovyan St | Instagram, Website and menu
Muha. A punk bar that has gone fully vegan. The «Batin Chapalakh» sandwich has given way to seitan shawarma and vegan burgers.
3 Baghramyan Ave | Instagram, Telegram channel
"2022". Right now they work as a pastry garage: order today, pick up tomorrow — fruit mochi, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls and much more. You will also find these desserts in the cafés listed below. An insider tip: they have the cheapest fresh tofu in town.
5/2 Mashtots Ave | Instagram
Vegan food to buy
Eco Jan. Not a café but a little shop of vegan and wholefood groceries. It has everything you cannot find elsewhere: dried soy asparagus, jerusalem artichoke syrup, seitan. There are replacements for animal products too: frozen cutlets and schnitzels, or creamy not-cheese made from fermented cashews by SCOBY. Plus natural cosmetics, perfumes and toiletries.
9 Vardanants St | Instagram
SCOBY. Fermented plant-based food: yoghurts, cheeses, tempeh, kimchi, kombucha, miso paste, sauces and so on.
Vegan options in Yerevan
SweetLi & Greens by Lilit. A patisserie and a cosy café making vegan desserts with an eye on balance and nutrition: desserts, cakes and tarts, ice cream, sweets, mochi, chocolate, baklava, granola and nut butters. They have recently added a salad bar.
4/1 Sayat-Nova Ave | Instagram
Letters and Numbers. A co-working space and coffee shop, and an event space too. The menu has vegan desserts: buns, mochi, cheesecake, cream horns and «potato» cakes.
35«g» Tumanyan St | Website, Instagram, Telegram community
Hummus Kimchi. An Israeli-Korean bar with vegan options. On Wednesdays there are vegan specials from Nikita at "2022". You can buy tofu here too. We recommend trying the breaded aubergine. If you order the kimchi, say that you need the vegan version.
16 Saryan St | Instagram
Voch luys voch mut. A coffee shop where you can find vegan cinnamon or poppy-seed buns, tartlets and mochi, and sometimes a lemon cake.
20 Saryan St | Instagram
Karmir Specialty Coffee. Continuing the list of coffee shops. Here you sometimes find specials from "2022" on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ver Var Climbing Yerevan. A climbing wall suitable for beginners and for professionals. Cinnamon rolls and poppy-seed buns turn up here.
28 Khorenatsi St | Website, Instagram, Telegram channel
Gadyuka. The bar has a kitchen with lots of vegan options. The food is insanely good — definitely don’t skip it.
Vardanants 15/2 | Instagram
Neko Yerevan. A family-run Asian café with no service charge. You can find vegan mochi here.
27 Demirchyan St | Instagram
Tufkenian Kharpet Restaurant. Quiet luxury. Surprisingly, there are plenty of bright and delicious vegan options here — you will be spoilt for choice. We recommend the pumpkin and apricot brownie and the orange and apple salad!
48 Hanrapetutyan St | Instagram
Ringo. An unexpected place for vegan food? Ringo has three vegan doughnut flavours: icing sugar, raspberry jam, and apple and cinnamon. The potato pirozhki, by the way, have no animal products in them either.
Several locations across the city | Instagram
Blackfin. Perfect if you want tasty and ethical Asian food. On the menu: good soba with vegetables and five vegan roll flavours. We recommend the warm battered rolls with vegetables and tofu, or the rolls with daikon and shiitake.
22/1 Paronyan St | Instagram
JanPho. An excellent Asian place where vegans will find considerably more than chuka salad and cucumber rolls. A plus: every ingredient is described in detail, so oyster sauce will not slip in among the vegan ingredients.
47 Nalbandyan St | Instagram
Green Bean Cascade. You can order a vegan burger with a plant-based patty, a vegan brownie and a rich hot chocolate made with various plant milks and chocolates.
38 Isahakyan St | Facebook
The Punjabi Kitchen. Indian food. We recommend the chickpea curry and the fresh spiced samosas with masala chai (ask for it without milk).
14/2 Khanjyan St
Do not overlook Indian food in general. Indian Mehak and Flavours Of India, for instance, both have huge menus.
10 Koryun St; 10/20 Anhaght St | Indian Mehak website, Flavours Of India on Facebook
Krispy Kod. Fast food with free delivery. They have Yerevan's first vegan hot dog.
9/1 Kochar St
Artlunch. or SAS Foodcourt. Nothing much on, but you fancy a balanced meal? Come to Artlunch or the SAS Foodcourt, where putting together a filling vegan plate is no trouble at all. We recommend rice with lentils, grilled vegetables and potatoes with mushrooms. Wrap the lot in lavash and life is good!
All over the city
Mr. Gyros. One of the few fast-food chains with vegan items: veggie burger, veggie gyros, crispers with hummus, and salads. Often open through the night.
Fast-food chain | Instagram
Falafel in Yerevan
Falafel Box. Levantine food is paradise for anyone who does not eat meat or dairy. Falafel — yes! Hummus — pour it straight into your pocket! Mind your stomachs, it is filling.
12 Khorenatsi St | Instagram
New Spidag. A tiny place run by a married couple, Syrian Armenians. Husband and wife have worked the kitchen themselves for many years. Perhaps that is why their falafel is always fresh! And there is a very wide choice of vegetables, spices and pickles. They put fresh mint leaves into the falafel in pita, for example.
1/6 Marshal Baghramyan Ave
Falafel Food Court. When falafel comes up, this is the place most people predictably think of. But the falafel here is made a little in advance, so it is not as piping hot as at New Spidag. On the plus side: this place is open until one in the morning, which is handy after an evening in the bars. With the falafel, be sure to get the sea-buckthorn juice from the village of Malishka — you can rarely try it anywhere in Yerevan.
1/6 Marshal Baghramyan Ave | Website
Araks. Middle Eastern food and very good falafel (do ask about a vegan sauce).
40 Tumanyan St | Facebook
Lebanon Shawarma. Enormous falafel. If you are lucky you will taste one of the best falafels in Yerevan (not everyone is lucky). The vegan falafel comes with tahini by default.
25 Komitas Ave | Website
Al Darvandi. in the same building. Cheap falafel, though not very big. Tasty too. It may taste bland to anyone who likes flavour enhancers and salt. Everyone else will like it all the more.
25 Komitas Ave
Jaco Restaurant & More. Komitas locals, take note: come in, order the falafel salad and a flatbread, wrap it up and demolish it. It is deadly good. You can hum Ladaniva's «Jako» while you do. No further instructions will be given!
38 Gyulbenkyan St | Website
Byblos. A Lebanese family restaurant. With the falafel they will bring you a stunning tahini-based sesame sauce!
64 Aram St | Instagram
Zhengyalov hats in Yerevan
A vegan classic in Armenia. An Artsakh flatbread with herbs; which herbs depends on the season, but there are always plenty of them inside. Literally: flatbread with greens. Cheap, ethical and very juicy.
Zhengyalov Hatz. A café right in the centre, specialising in zhengyalov hats and nothing else. Take one each, or you risk eating yourself to a standstill!
62 Teryan St | Facebook
Liana makes very good zhengyalov hats, cooking it right in front of you on the stove. She is from Artsakh and says she has been making it half her life. It is an eight-minute walk from the entrance to Zoravar Andranik metro station.
21/4 Yervand Kochar St
Another contender for the best zhengyalov hats is in the Barekamutyun metro underpass. Coming out of the metro, go a little way straight ahead and it is on the left. Closed on Sundays.
Groceries
Vegan groceries
Plant milk. in any supermarket; the cheapest is at Fix Price and Carrefour
Tofu. cheapest at "2022", Colibri and Eco Jan; most expensive at SAS Exclusive (not in every SAS). You can also buy it at the cafés Future Diner and Hummus Kimchi
Marketplaces
Vegan products and ready-made foods can be ordered from Ozon. Greenwise, Vego, Vysshiy Vkus and others, for example. Worth noting too: soy cream cheese, oat condensed milk, smoked tofu, sauces and mayonnaises, cakes, sweets, dandelion «honey» (syrup). And in fact almost everything that Eco Jan sells
Wildberries also sells vegan products. Vegan mayonnaise, skincare from Siberina, vitamin D3 and so on.
Oregano. A natural spice shop in Armenia. Comparatively cheap soy chunks (also known as textured soy protein, or soy nuggets). Usually the small kind (but coarser than mince). You can always phone: the lovely woman there will point you in the right direction, send photos on WhatsApp and can even hand it to a courier with payment by card transfer. +374 (99) 49-11-13, (099) 55 73 91.
44 Arshakunyats Ave; 65 Tigran Mets Ave; 23/1 | Website, Facebook, Instagram
Dilijan
A vegan place in Dilijan
Vegan Budka. A project by vegan chef Kris Yashina. Frozen food: vegan pancakes, tofu fritters, cutlets, sausages, chebureki, aubergine parmigiana, stuffed peppers, cheeses, sour cream, sauces. Hot soup of the day.
53/2 Myasnikyan St | Instagram, Telegram channel
Vegan options in Dilijan
TAVA. The most vegan-friendly and the most expensive place around. Of note: several kinds of pizza — Spicy Vegan, Rebellious Vegan, Vegan and delicate. Vegetable steaks (cabbage among them), grilled avocado, dolma with sun-dried tomatoes. Clay pots with pulses and grains, such as lobahash and pokhindz (ask for the pots with olive oil instead of butter). Warm salads, with roast pumpkin and kale, with lentils and so on. On request they can make a vegan brownie (it is not on the menu).
A stall selling zhengyalov hats (the Artsakh flatbread with herbs). Never the same twice — it depends on the herbs.
Near the Tsiran shop at 59 Myasnikyan St
Cafe N 2. You can ask for the lenten menu. Sometimes they will actually bring it out separately and cook from it (though once they could not find it and just listed what was available). Examples: lentil soup, a vegan burger with a lentil patty, an orange muffin.
17/1 Gorky St | Facebook
At Shaurmyan you can get falafel, but ask for it without the garlic sauce (it contains milk).
32/2 Myasnikyan St | Instagram
The Spot. Vegan desserts and specials turn up sometimes, as does merch in aid of homeless animals. Dog-friendly. They post the menu and the current range on their Telegram channel.
2/10 Getapnya St | Instagram, Telegram channel
Muraz Café & Cocktail Bar. A very cosy place with restaurant-standard plating. But there are not many options: a vegetable bowl (check what is in the sauce) and side dishes. On the other hand they will make coffee and bubble tea with plant milk at no extra charge, and the bubble tea pearls are tapioca.
33 Myasnikyan St | Telegram channel
Shame Burger. The menu has hummus, falafel and other starters. Check the ingredients.
33 Myasnikyan St | Facebook (empty page)
Mustard. There is a falafel roll and a veggie burger. Check the ingredients.
80 Myasnikyan St | Instagram
Fish House. They sometimes have oat condensed milk. Soy, chocolate and coconut milk. Miso paste, dried shiitake and wood ear mushrooms, various noodles, red curry paste, rice paper. Tofu turns up — silken Jions (that one is fine) and a firm no-name (occasionally out of date). You can message them in advance and ask them to stock up for you.
7 Shahumyan St
Home cooking in Dilijan
U Sanechki. Fully vegan snacks: kimchi, hummus, tempeh, frozen food.
Delivery. Pickup at 82 Getapnya St | Orders by Telegram DM, Telegram channel
"The Art of Bread by Lilit". Long-fermented sourdough bread, with vegan versions of almost every kind. The vegan cinnamon rolls deserve a mention!
"Bread in Dilijan". You can order sourdough bread to your door; Marina bakes it.
Frozen vareniki can be ordered from Olga Rudamyotkina, a Molokan. She can make them lenten (on request). She also makes fried pirozhki: with potato, with potato and mushrooms, and with cabbage. These are vegan as standard (though it is worth checking, just in case). She announces the menu from time to time in the Life in Dilijan chat; she has no channel of her own.
A general tip for Dilijan: follow the Life (Events) in Dilijan Telegram chat, in the «Cafés, bars, restaurants» and «Home cooking» topics — that is where venues and cooks post menus, specials and updates.
Source: a post in the Go Vegan Armenia Telegram chat.
Cosmetics
Cruelty-free cosmetics
The Glow Vegan project (in Russian). They make cosmetics transparent, in both senses of the word. It is a cosmetics database: each product card shows you the ingredients, what it was tested on and whether the product suits you in particular.
Skincare in Armenia
bba organic. A Californian brand founded by an Armenian woman. The ingredients are certified organic — marula oil, green tea and camomile extracts. Available online only; they send it by post.
22|11. The founder, biochemist Tigran Geoletsyan, spent many years in the beauty industry. Most of the ingredients come from Armenia; the missing ones are sourced in Europe and Asia. Further pluses: stylish recyclable packaging and Instagram-worthy design.
La Hoja. Handmade natural cosmetics: shampoos in a convenient solid format, massage candles made of soy wax and a wide choice of solid perfumes. All made in Armenia.
lav. A stylish, well-made and affordable brand of shower gels and body lotions. Sold in the main city supermarkets and cosmetics chains.
Lucin Organics. Skincare and hair products in good-looking packaging. The ingredients are natural oils and extracts. Made in the USA and Armenia — the founder lives between the two countries.
Nairian Armenia. An Armenian brand inspired by nature. It has two physical shops, its own eco-farm and a laboratory in Aragatsotn. Cruelty-free, and most items have vegan formulas, but some products may contain honey or wax — do check.
Tavush Mountain Shop. Handmade soap straight from the mountains around Dilijan. There is lavender, cocoa and even Armenian red wine. A good option not only to treat yourself but to give to guests who turn up unannounced.
The Body Shop. A British brand with shops all over the world. Be careful: the brand is no longer fully vegan. Its best-known product is the nourishing body butters with fruit and nut scents.
And now make-up
Mood Mineral. A Yerevan project promoting the idea of ethical natural cosmetics. Mineral make-up, incidentally, suits problem and sensitive skin very well — which matters in Yerevan air.
Ne Beauty and Noorb Beauty. These are lines of professional nail products. The manufacturer is the Armenian factory MENOK. The website states that the products are not tested on animals, i.e. that they are cruelty-free, but it is better to check the ingredients when you buy. An ethical polish should contain no carmine (E120), wax, shellac or guanine.
Vanity Cosmetics. A luxury make-up brand from make-up artist Ani Gulayan with a wide choice of year-round shades. Build a make-up bag for a light everyday face on the run!
Sources
Original Vegan Guide to Armenia (russian)
Discussions in the Telegram chat
If something needs correcting or clarifying — write to us here. Last updated: September 2026