top of page
veganism and vegetarianism

 VEGAN & VEGETARIAN
  Restaurant Guide 
  to Eastern Connecticut  
 (east of the Quinnipiac & Connecticut Rivers)
dedicated to keeping the RANT in restauRANT

This is a restaurant guide to vegan and vegetarian options in carnivorous restaurants and to actual vegan and vegetarian restaurants in eastern Connecticut as far west as New Haven and Hartford. These are not merely short, snarky ratings, instead these are full-length and in-depth reviews dedicated to keeping the RANT in restauRANT.

 

This downloadable directory of 40 pages in intended to provide a compact guide to vegheads, while asking them to forgive my own rhetoric that ranges from hyperbole to calumny. 

​

​

​

VEGAN & VEGETARIAN Restaurant Options in Connecticut

EASTERN HALF of the state, mostly east of the Quinnipiac & Connecticut Rivers, while also including Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven

​

Keeping the RANT in RestauRANT

​

(42-page PDF,  1MB)

Updated June 2024

 

Published on the web also, but usually in shorter versions, 

at:    HappyCow.net    where you must click "Photos & Reviews,"

while as one single document it is published HERE.

​

 

While we're here, I include eulogies for my dearly beloved but now deceased all-vegan or all-vegetarian restaurants: Right Path Organic Cafe in New London, Ahimsa Restaurant in New Haven, Kong Foo Restaurant in Norwich, Kate's Cafe in Mystic, 21 Oak in Manchester, Six Main in Chester and Cafe Live (now Cafe Dead) in Willimantic, among many others. All vegetarian or all vegan, no wonder they withered and died in the vast nutritional wasteland of eastern CT.

 

From among the still living in eastern CT, the PDF lists and reviews these and few more not listed :

​

​

Branford:

Darbar India – Carnivore but Vegetarian-Friendly

​

Danielson:

Heirloom Food Company – almost all-Vegetarian, very Vegan-Friendly

​

Griswold:

Mei's Kitchen -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

 

Groton:

Chipolte – Carnivore

Mirch Masala – Carnivore

Thai Sawasdee – Carnivore

Pokemoto – Carnivore but very Veg-Friendly

​

Guilford:

Foodworks (food store) -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

Shoreline Diner & Vegetarian Enclave – Carnivore but separate small Vegan menu

Three Girls Vegan Creamery – Vegan

​

Hartford

Fire-N-Spice Restaurant – Vegan

Lion's Den "Vegetarian" Restaurant -- almost all-Vegetarian

​

Madison:

Life Bowl – Vegetarian

​

Middletown:

It’s Only Natural (ION) – Vegan

Aroy Thai Garden – Vegan

It's Only Natural Market (food store) -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

Udupi Bhavan – Vegetaran

​

Mystic:

Karma Kitchen Mystic – almost Vegetarian

S & P Oyster Company – Carnivore but separate small Vegan menu

Mystic Salad Co. – Carnivore but very Veg-Friendly

​

New Haven:

Claire’s Cornercopia – Vegetarian

Edge of the Woods – Vegetarian

Ninth Square Market Caribbean Style – Vegan

​

New London:

Fiddleheads Foods Coop – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

Jasmine Thai – Carnivore

Saeed’s – Carnivore

The Social Bar + Kitchen – Carnivore but allegedly Veg-Friendly (really not)

Spice Palette – Carnivore but very Vegan-Friendly with Vegan & Vegetarian side menus

​

Norwichtown:

Illiano's -- Carnivore but very Vegan-Friendly

​

Old Saybrook:

Foodworks (food store) -- Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

Shakahari – Vegetarian

​

Stonington:

Stonington Village Farmers Market – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

​

Storrs / Mansfield:

Chang’s Garden – Carnivore but Vegan-Friendly

Fenton River Grill – Carnivore but Vegan-Friendly

​

​Westbrook:

Shayna B's by the Sea  – Vegan

​

Willimantic:

Willimantic Food Coop – Carnivore but Veg-Friendly

Trigo Wood Fired Pizza – Carnivore but Vegan-Friendly

​

Everywhere:

Wendy's – Carnivore but offers a Vegan (and wholesome!) Baked Potato

​

​

bottom of page