Lincoln guide

Vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Lincoln

Two fully vegetarian places, a tapas bar that marks its vegan dishes, and the chains with full vegan menus

Lincoln has two fully vegetarian places to eat: Bailgate Deli, a plant-based café up by the cathedral, and Slow Rise, a vegetarian pizza restaurant on St Martin’s Lane. Five others have closed since 2019, and some directory sites still list them as open. Beyond those two, Olé Olé marks vegan dishes across its tapas menu, and the chains carry most of the full vegan menus in the city.

What Highstreett returns for “Vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Lincoln”

Only two vegetarian and vegan places to eat in Lincoln are listed on Highstreett so far, so this is a short list, not a ranking.

They are Slow Rise and Bailgate Deli; one is a verified independent.

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    Slow Rise

    Why it fits A vegetarian or vegan place to eat in the city centre.

    8–12 St Martin’s Lane, LN2 1HY. A Neapolitan-style vegetarian pizza restaurant and takeaway: its owners chose to keep meat off the menu, and its Instagram says there are vegan versions too. Food hygiene rating 5, inspected 14 October 2025.

    • Hours not listed
    • Price not listed
  2. Bailgate Deli, café in Bailgate
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    Bailgate Deli

    ✓ Verified independent

    Why it fits A vegetarian or vegan place to eat in Bailgate.

    4 Gordon Road, LN1 3AJ, just off Bailgate. It describes itself as a plant-based café and deli serving breakfast and lunch; older descriptions call it vegan and vegetarian. It publishes no menu, so ask if you need a dish to be fully vegan. Food hygiene rating 5, inspected 12 February 2026.

    • Hours not listed
    • Price not listed

Built on a Highstreett search for “Vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Lincoln”, run 26 October 2026.

The search ranks the businesses we list the same way the live search does. Known chains appear after other results, and some big national chains, about 120 brands, are left out entirely. The live search also checks Google Places for places we have not listed yet.

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A local restaurant that marks its vegan dishes

  • Olé Olé Tapas Bar, RestaurantUnion Road, LN1 3BU, by the castle’s west gate. Its tapas menu marks 11 dishes vegan and 6 more that can be made vegan, from patatas bravas to a vegetable paella, and says it has been family-run since 2013. Food hygiene rating 5, inspected 22 April 2026.

Vegan and vegetarian pizza in Lincoln

For vegetarian pizza, Slow Rise is the only pizza restaurant we know of in Lincoln with no meat on the menu at all. Its own website, read on 19 October 2026, describes it as a Neapolitan vegetarian pizza restaurant and takeaway, open Tuesday to Sunday. The site does not mark which pizzas are vegan, so ask; its Instagram has said there are vegan versions.

For a pizza that is vegan on the menu, the clearest option is a chain: Zizzi on Brayford Wharf North. Its vegan menu, linked from its Lincoln page, has a vegan Margherita with MozzaRisella, a plant-based cheese, on a Rustica or Classic base, an aubergine parmigiana pizza, and a gluten-free vegan base.

We also read the websites of nine other pizza places: Dough LoCo, Pizza Launch, Caldo Pizza, Galaxy Pizza House, Option 3 Pizza, Valentino’s, Papa Frank’s, Liberty Slice Co. and Barney’s Pizza. None marked a vegan pizza on a page we could read. Several take orders through an app whose menu we couldn’t load, so a vegan option may be there; check before you order.

Chains with full vegan menus

These are chains, so they have no page in our directory and aren’t linked, but between them they carry the fullest vegan menus in Lincoln, as their own menus showed on 10 September 2026:

  • Cosy Club, in the Corn Exchange on Sincil Street: a separate vegan menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Part of Loungers.
  • Zizzi, on Brayford Wharf North: a vegan menu of pastas and pizzas.
  • Pho, on Cornhill Pavement: vegan options marked right through the menu.
  • Mowgli Street Food, on the High Street: 17 dishes marked vegetarian and vegan.
  • Slug & Lettuce, on the High Street: vegan dishes marked across its menus. Part of Stonegate.

Closed: names you may still see listed

Pimento Tea Rooms on Steep Hill, a vegetarian tea room that opened in 1990, has closed, and its building is now Gigi’s Bar & Bistro, which isn’t vegetarian. Cafe Shanti on Clasketgate, which went fully vegan in 2019, has closed too, and so have Happy Culture Café on Garmston Street, Good’s Plant Based Bakery on the High Street and Naturawell on Carholme Road. Some directory sites still list Pimento and Cafe Shanti as open.

How this was checked

Each place was checked on 10 September 2026 against its own website, menu or social pages, the Food Standards Agency register and its current status on Google. Menus change, and the vegan dishes counted here are the ones each menu showed on that date.

The pizza section was added on 19 October 2026, from each pizza place’s own website and Zizzi’s vegan menu, read that day.

None of these businesses carries our verified badge. No badge makes no claim either way.