Vegan
Japanese
Raw
Fast food
Salad bar
Juice bar
Beer/Wine

Est. June 2024. Located on Dotonbori's shop street is a fully vegan tourism hotspot and café. Dishes may include takoyaki, yakisoba, deep-fried skewers and more. Open Mon-Fri 11:30am-12:00am, Sat-Sun 11:00am-12:00am. Holidays: 11:00 am - 12:00 am. Open 365 days a year.


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38 Reviews

First Review by feebz1986

helitim

Points +9

Vegetarian
22 Sep 2024

Alright

The takoyaki was very yum, but the remainder of our dinner was nothing impressive.

mallinds

Points +393

Vegan
22 Sep 2024

Nice tokoyaki

The tokoyaki here was great, but everything else on the bland side.

Pros: Fully vegan , Lots of seating

Cons: On a super busy street

marjoloen

Points +20

Vegan
20 Sep 2024

Goede locatie, lekker gegeten

Smaakvol en redelijk vee keuze op een hele centrale locatie in Osaka

Jinger

Points +63

Vegan
20 Sep 2024

Good food, nice location

The food was decent. The ambience was good.
As a fully vegan place in japan you gotta give them the 5th star😉

Ryskopa

Points +86

Vegan
19 Sep 2024

Vegan restaurant at Osaka

You can try some traditional food in vegan version, they have also lots of gluten free options, I really enjoyed and I recommend to visit this place

Pros: Nice staff , Staff speaks English , Tasty traditional Japan food

Cons: Gluten free options

Forbeszy

Points +217

Vegan
10 Sep 2024

Great way to cool down on a hot day

Decided to get a ginger ale to start to cool down. Then got a Curry with soybean meat cutlet with a salad. The salad came first. I loved the dressing and was a nice starter.
Then the curry came in. I really liked the flavors. The soybean meat was nice and crispy on the outside but a little chewy than I thought. It was okay. The curry I expected to be spicy but I didn’t taste any. Was a little sad about that.

Then I had a chocolate galette. I was loving it. Nice and cold to help combat the heat.

Pros: Tons of vegan options, Desserts as well

Cons: Expected a little spice from the curry

FloraVanderhaegen

Points +22

Vegan
01 Sep 2024

Great takoyaki!

First vegan restaurant I'm going to in Osaka-and Japan! Went there with my best friend who's a non-vegan and moved here a year ago, she loved it and said she wanted to come back!
We had takoyaki, gyozas and some rice curry. I liked the rice less but I don't love rice or curry so that's really just my preference.
We also loved our drinks!
I had a gin, ginger ale, lemon made with japanese gin that was great, and my friend had a sugary alcohol free cocktail that she really loved!

Pros: Very tasty takoyaki , Free WiFi for customers , Nice staff

Cons: Orders via qr code, Toilets are a far walk away from the restaurant

Picy

Points +2070

Vegan
31 Aug 2024

Delicious

Delicious food in a great place with nice staff. We heard they said to the customers that it's fully vegan. It's so nice to find such place with some vegan traditional Japanese food.

Pros: Delicious food, Nice staff, Various choices

Heike.St

Points +978

Vegan
25 Aug 2024

Super location for vegan restaurant

Great location in Dotonbori!
We were seated quickly; menus are on the table but you order via QR-Code.

We got the lunch menu: yakisoba (with chicken) plus rice balls (one wrapped with seaweed; one cover is flower sea salt) plus miso soup.
The noodles were great; the salty rice ball was interesting but not bad. The miso soup wasn’t our favorite, not used to the veggies in it. :)
We also got the vegan takoyaki balls with mayonnaise. Was nice to try something new, but as we don’t know the original octopus version, it was just another dough ball for us.

Furthermore we tried the “vinegar drinks”. (We only read that name after we ordered otherwise we might have been more hesitant.) they ended up being pretty tasty Sodas. One mango flavored (Thailand) and one Tricolor one (France) with different berries.

It was so good, we wanted to come back to get some takeout. But unfortunately they don’t to that, not even for just drinks or shaved ice😒

Cons: No takeout

RiccardoDellafiore

Points +20

Vegan
21 Aug 2024

Ottimo pranzo Vegano

Ci siamo stati per pranzo 2 volte, ottimi piatti giapponesi rivisitati in chiave vegana.
Personale molto gentile e accogliente.

Pros: Pulito, Buono

Tanja75

Points +38

Vegetarian
20 Aug 2024

Delicious vegan food

Wir waren zum Mittagessen da und hatten Takoyaki, Yakisoba und Reisbälle. Das Essen war lecker und der Service sehr freundlich. 

Pros: Große Auswahl, Zentrale Lage, Freundliches Personal

tknasir

Points +20

Vegan
14 Aug 2024

Great Osakan Cuisine

Really great Osakan cuisine! One of the troubles of being vegan in Japan is the lack of options and as lovely as some of the other vegan restaurants we tried were, they had lots of burgers and not as much “traditional” cuisine. Having just had a tour guide tell us about all this traditional Osakan food that we couldn’t eat, we found out that pretty much all of it was served here! Can’t speak highly enough of it, so nice to not have to miss out on any of the culinary culture just because we’re vegan! Also has really friendly staff who speak great English and an easy to use online order/menu system in English!

Pros: Traditional food, Friendly staff, Central location

nick14

Points +1076

Vegan
12 Aug 2024

Surprised by other reviews

We went here as it was a perfect location for where we were. The food we had was great and the location allowed us to feel in the main hussle and bustle when usually vegan places are found out of the way.

Pros: All vegan, Good range of options, Friendly staff

Cons: Toilet is not in the same building

alexandra.mome

Points +60

Vegetarian
06 Aug 2024

Good vegan option

Some dishes was really good like the kimchi and the takoyaki. The waiters speak English and they are really kind.

Pros: Takoyaki

jwn

Points +45

Vegetarian
27 Jul 2024

Not nut allergy friendly

The food looked delicious and we ordered drinks here. For others who have a nut allergy, staff advised that all food items contain nut products. Lovely staff team who were apologetic about this.

Updated from previous review on 2024-07-27

tgardner1453

Points +678

Vegan
26 Jul 2024

Fine food

Food was fine a bit costly for portion though. Menu felt haphazard and not focused. Nice staff though. Only takes card

JenniferCassidy

Points +41

Vegetarian
23 Jul 2024

Lovely food lovely staff!

Had the katsu curry, nice big portion and came with a side salad. Partner had the yakisoba with rice balls and soup. Both delicious. Big restaurant with lots of seats and aircon. You can a QR code to order.

MoreJan

Points +20

Vegan
21 Jul 2024

Solid vegan option

The vegan takoyaki was alright, the truffle salt variant was very tasty. The gyoza was very tasty as well. A very solid option is the cutlet bowl. Two very tasty and crispy vegan cutlets on top of a well flavoured bed of rice with some greens. Good meal to have after a long day. Staff is very friendly and there should always be enough space.

Pros: Cutlet, friendly staff

Cons: Takoyaki could have more flavour

jdbbdbxnldnd

Points +21

Vegetarian
20 Jul 2024

Friendly but meal wasn’t good

I like they speak so many langua and the idea offering vegetarian/vegan food for all of us that don’t like octopus.

I must admit that I didn’t like the okonomiaky. They were watery and soft, as well as I don’t like the jelly Konjac inside.

Pros: Many languages , No cash, Vegan

Cons: taste

K-Louise

Points +24

Vegetarian
18 Jul 2024

Good opportunity for vegans to experience street food

The staff was really friendly. They have a good selection of classic Japanese food made vegan and the price of drinks was good.

LTM

Points +36

Vegan
15 Jul 2024

Great place!

Really happy to stumble upon this all vegan cafe in the very busy Donbori area. Service is friendly, they speak English, and the food was all quick and delicious. Great find!

Pros: Food, Friendly service , Convenient area

jadaruss

Points +1833

Vegan
15 Jul 2024

Just ok

Some dishes were good some weren’t

MeniMbugha

Points +34

Vegan
14 Jul 2024

Great food and service

The Vibrant atmosphere of the neighborhood is well depicted by the amazing staff'energy and plus the food was delicious(Tonkatsu - fries - vegetables assortments) with the Sake.
Florence ,one of the waitresses,was very kind and helpful to choose from the menu.
I highly recommend it to all of the visitors of Dotombori.

ghansman

Points +1099

Vegan
07 Jul 2024

Okay option in Dotonbori

Decent enough vegan options, and not bad variety either. It's the vegan takoyaki that's the only must-have on the menu, really. Portion sizes seem a bit small given price point (relative to the non-vegan versions of similar items at other establishments nearby).

Pros: The servers are all very friendly

Siiinimini_

Points +80

Vegan
06 Jul 2024

So delicious!! 100% recommend

Es war so unglaublich lecker 😍 es wird gut englisch gesprochen, es ist zentral und alle sind sehr freundlich. Ich kann es jedem empfehlen!

Pros: Essen war sehr frisch , Freundlicher Service , Preisleistung super

veganmaxxx

Points +124

Vegan
04 Jul 2024

Excellent Kansai local dishes but Vegan

Excellent location, central in Dotonbori. They make local dishes but vegan. The takoyaki was amazing. Fully recommended and badly needed all began restaurant close to tourist areas.

Pros: Food quality, Local dishes, Location

AnitaDollar

Points +2990

Vegan
01 Jul 2024

Something Osaka really needed!

This place targets mainly tourists for sure, and therefore is a bit pricey, but I'm happy that more people have the option available to try vegan Osaka cuisine in the heart of the city.

All the dishes we tried were great, especially the Katsudon made me happy. The avocado in our salad was not quite ripe but staff was friendly and replaced it when we told them.

Definitely recommend this, especially if you're in a group!




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