Alibi’s kitchen is constructed by a food philosophy of clean eating without compromising taste and boy does that hold true. It’s all plant-based and vegan and includes flavours like kimchi dumplings with ginger foam and red cabbage puree, broccoli steak with walnut cream, chimichurri and cashew parmesan. For dessert, you can’t go wrong with a pumpkin chocolate pie with a chocolate crust, coconut and cardamom cream. If you are looking for the best vegetarian restaurants Sydney has to offer, you can’t go past Alibi Bar & Kitchen.

Two Chaps serves up some of the best vegetarian food in Sydney and is a “from-scratch” café that makes all of its bread and pastry by hand. During the day you can expect such delights as the popular sourdough crumpets with plum relish and parmesan custard, Panko crumbed mushroom burgers and banana smoothie bowls. Two nights a week they serve dinner with options ranging from delicious pasta dishes, salads and more.

One of the best vegetarian restaurants in Sydney is the popular bistro, Yellow, situated in the iconic yellow house building in Potts Point. Yellow takes the humble vegetable and turns it into a meal full of flavour and texture. Dishes like the beans, capers and toasted pumpkin ravioli, watermelon radish with hazelnut and lemon or caramelised pear with oat mousse and a nut crumble with have you coming back for more.

One of Sydney’s best vegetarian restaurants is at Yulli’s Bar in Surry Hills. Offering a wide variety of mainly Asian, with Mexican and Moroccan inspired dishes like crispy wasabi cauliflower with kimchi and alfalfa sprouts, fried zucchini in filo pastry with tom yum sauce and tomato salsa, or salted mushroom butter with fried leeks and whipped beetroot with house-made lavash bread.

Shenkin Kitchen in Enmore is a family run business full of old family recipes. The menu is chock full of vegetarian options like teriyaki eggplant and grilled oyster mushrooms but the real winner is the signature dish, Shakshuka, is a popular favourite and full of flavour with vegetables, spices and slow-cooked for a good seven hours before being topped with poached eggs and served with pita. You won’t find a vegetarian restaurant in Sydney with more heart and love put into every dish.

Bad Hombres is all vegan and offers some of the best-tasting food for vegans and vegetarians when you’re out dining in Sydney. Charred corn with chipotle mayo, Peruvian stir fry oyster mushrooms with jalapenos and ‘crocante’ eggplant with cashew crema are just some of the delicious Mexican inspired dishes for you to try.

This cosy corner of Glebe Point Road offers a fantastic array of vegetarian food in Sydney. Here you’ll find a carefully crafted vegetarian dishes inspired with flavours from Asia, Middle East, The Mediterranean and Latin America. Badde Manors offers everything from Haloumi wraps, vegetarian quiches, sweet potato pastry rolls to the more sweet like vegan brownies, ricotta cheesecake and cherry strudel.