Vegan
Chinese
Buffet
Take-out
Taiwanese
Asian food with mock meat, tofu, and vegetable dishes. Has lunch and evening hot pot buffet. Ask for the English menu. Directions: U3 to Landstrasse station go Landstasse to Invalidenstarsse to Ungargasse then take street car down Ungargasse. Opening hours are reported to be unreliable, check ahead. Fully vegan from June 2023. Open Tue-Sun 12:00-15:00, 17:30-21:00. Closed on Mon & Holidays.
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129 Reviews
First Review by kamikazekid
JonTurner2000
Points +379
Vegetasia - Modern flavours of Asia - Edit
Taiwanese and other Asian dishes in a modern fashionable restaurant. Good food and friendly professional service. I had the tofu balls in a mango salsa sauce - the mixture of mango and lemongrass was totally delicious and a new taste sensation for me.
Read moreNice atmosphere and recommended.
Pros: Great relaxed modern decor, Well cooked food - great range of choice, Good service
Cons: Maybe a tiny bit pricey for the food alo
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wyrd
Points +3361
Nice atmosphere and nice food - Edit
I had dinner at Vegetasia two days ago. When I entered I was welcomed by a waitress who didn't speak English (actually, I must admit that I cannot speak German at all, so it's my fault in the first place!), thus she sent for the waitress who did speak English! She was very kind and at the end I ate a mock-meat dish with the least amount of fried things I could find in the menu. Yes, the menu is chocked full of fried stuff (mockmeat, mostly, like soy "chicken").
Read moreThen at the end I asked for the strawberry and coconut pudding and it was a work of art. Basically, I felt guilty for eating it, it was gorgeous! And good taste too. As for beverages, I had water.
The English-speaking waitress checked a couple of times if everything was fine, and it was. I enjoyed eating at Vegetasia, and I normally avoid Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants (mostly because I avoid fried stuff as much as possible).
I paid 20EUR, which I guess it's reasonable (at lunchime they have a much less expensive buffet).
I think this should be a 5 cows review, although if you want to avoid mockmeat and fried stuff then maybe scale it to 4!
Pros: Rich portions, Kind staff
Cons: Too much fried stuff in the menu...
Guest
slemveg
Points +39
Very different experience to others! - Edit
I felt compelled to write a review as our experience was so different to those below. Maybe we went at a good time (Sunday evening) or maybe they have new staff, but the service was great, really friendly and helpful (and English speaking, fortunately for me and my rubbish German!). I found it impossible to choose from the mouthwatering menu so we went for the set menu and I wasn't disappointed!
Read moreI can't recommend this place highly enough. My only slight complaint was that it was a bit hard to tell from the menu what was vegan, although again the staff were really helpful with that.
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k-girl80
Points +298
Not an easy review to write - Edit
I visited this restaurant back in June 2014. Let me start off by saying that the food here is AMAZING! Seriously, it's and incredible vegan experience. Everything we tasted - was great. But... I must admit the service here was questionable, to say the least. The restaurant closes at 23:00 and on both times we attended Vegetasia - we were literally kicked out by 22:59. Now, I understand that we could have arrived earlier but there's a very disturbing feeling you get when someone wracks up all of the tables and chairs around you and shuts off the lights (!) while you're still eating. Also, the second time we were there, we didn't receive one of the dishes we ordered - it wasn't on the final bill but I cant help but wonder, if this was dropped due to the closing of the kitchen...perhaps they thought we ordered enough and ignored the dish? I would have given them a full 5 stars but I being kicked out was just too much for me... too bad, really.
Read moreOh, also - very poor English skills, even-though they offer an English menu.
Pros: good food, nice decor
Guest
I_love_pears
Points +324
Pretty good - Edit
My boyfriend and I came here on our first night in Vienna. The food was tasty but nothing particularly special if you're used to mock meats etc. My biggest complaint would be the service. It was a public holiday and they seemed pretty slammed so maybe it was a one-off but our service was SO SLOW it was a bit ridiculous. The waitstaff were not on top of things at all and it got to the point where the waitress just flat-out ignored me because she was obviously too busy to serve us. We waited for half an hour just to order dessert. Part of it was that the waitstaff were obviously busy, but it was annoying because some tables got really fast services and I noticed others like us who were kept waiting a long time. I wanted to just go but my boyfriend insisted on staying. Either way I'd skip the desserts they were nothing special. It was pretty expensive too.
Read morePros: Lots of variety
Cons: Slow service, Expensive
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CarlosGP
Points +346
Excellent food and service - Edit
I'm very surprised by the critical comments in some of the reviews here. There were 4 of us for dinner and all dishes were excellent. There were 3 waiters on staff and all 3 were super-friendly as well as attentive to detail. It is true that it's not in the center of town, but it's super-easy to reach by tram and definitely worth it.
Read moreHighly recommended.
Pros: Great food, Great prices, Terrific service
Cons: Not in the center of town
Guest
aps101
Points +341
Decent but not amazing - Edit
All veggie Asian spot with many vegan options. Ask for an English menu, they do have them particularly as wait staff does not speak a lot of English. The soup was a bit of a disappointment, but overall the meal was decent. It is definitely out of the way, a bit of a walk from the Belvedere and a hike back to the city center, but tram does run nearby if you prefer.
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jlmcmillan
Points +70
Very disappointing - Edit
My husband and I got take out from here, and were very disappointed. While everything was indeed vegan, it was very bad—nothing tasted fresh or flavorful, just like something I would get from a crappy, cheap Chinese restaurant. It was also REALLY expensive: €34 (about $50) for take out for two. Don't bother.
Read moreI'm put out HappyCow won't let me give it one star; 2 is way too many.
Guest
dsparakh
Points +205
Unique amongst Chinese Buddhist restaurants - Edit
I came to Vienna not wanting my vegetarian experience to be limited to the standard Chinese Buddhist offerings. Was I ever happy that this restaurant happened to be the closest veg place to my hotel! I can state with confidence that this was the best Asian vegetarian restaurant I’ve ever eaten at, and I have eaten at such places all over the world. The décor, ambiance, and design were what you might expect at an upscale Viennese restaurant. The price was unbelievable – two of us had a set menu for E35 total, which included soup, four mini-spring rolls, four main courses, and dessert. The food was exceptional. All too often, Chinese Buddhist restaurants present a long list of exotic sounding dishes – giving the illusion of great choice – when in reality, many of the dishes taste pretty similar. Vegetasia was different. Every dish we had was prepared with care and thought. The corn in the sweet corn soup was fresh. The spring rolls were not resurrected from a frozen, industrial batch. Vegetasia 1 was a most pleasant surprise, and is highly recommended.
Read morePros: price, food quality, ambiance
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cookiemonster
Points +1203
Amazing! So good, not expensive,close to train stn - Edit
I went here twice for the lunch buffet (12-3pm during the week I believe). It was something like 7€ and was great. The food ranged from "ok", typical tawainese vegetarian/mock-meat stuff to quite delicious dishes that were not usual run-of-the mill. Nothing I had was bad and some things were great. There are a pretty good number of dishes, though not all are vegan (hot and sour soup has egg, cookies I doubt are vegan etc.) Most of the uncertain ones (deep-fried pineapple, vanilla pudding) were labelled as vegan if they were. What can I say, it's delicious and the price is right, definitely one of the better places I found in Vienna and I will hit here again for sure the next time I am back.
Read moreThe have a nice terrace out front and they have some sushi too included on the buffet (and dessert, as mentioned above). Also, they carry Dammann teas (like "damn man, this is tasty"). Vanilla Rooibos is highly recommended.
Pros: Good value, Tasty
Cons: Dishes could be a little more inspired
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KaosPhoenix
Points +131
okay buffet, terrifyingly real-looking mock fish - Edit
Went there for lunch with some friends. The buffet was okay, not breathtaking, but good. We had to take care since nothing was labelled as vegetarian or vegan, and there was egg rice and pudding containing dairy. A friend had some salmon sushi that looked so much like real salmon I didn't dare taste it myself. Apparently it was great (and vegan).
Read morePros: mock fish,if you like that sort of thing
Cons: vegetarian/vegan dishes not labelled
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damian0815
Points +19
Bland, tasteless, generic Chinese restaurant - Edit
We came on the recommendation of a friend. Won't be going back.
Read moreWe ordered 2 different dishes (crispy duck with 'vegetables', and the 'various meat varieties with vegetables and cashew nuts') and the 'vegetables' were exactly the same in each dish: overcooked frozen-like vegetables in a sticky starchy goopy sauce, like in an ordinary cheap Chinese restaurant.
Thoughtless, unappetizing, poorly presented, expensive.
Pros: all vegetarian, good service
Cons: the food
Guest
Edz
Points +68
Classy - Edit
Very nice replica meat vegan dishes. Would have liked to see more dishes which weren't meat imitations but they were all very convincing and tasty.
Read moreSet menus for two cost about 35 Euro. English menus available and staff spoke good english.
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amorris65
Points +13
Taiwanese treat - Edit
The menu - available in English - was very varied and entirely vegetarian, vegan, in fact, except for optional egg in one or two dishes). Initially the menu looked deceptively meaty (aaghh) but there is an index at the front which describes the actual vegetarian ingredients used in creating the many meat-substitute dishes.
Read moreWe visited twice in a 5-night stay in Vienna and both times all the food was exceptionally tasty and interesting. The Mango "chicken" curry was gorgeous. All dishes were well-presented and the staff were very helpul - most spoke a reasonable amount of English. The interior was understated chic - not at all pretentious. If you stay at the Renaissance Riding Stables Hotel on Ungargasse it is 100 yards away! But it is also on one of the main tram routes. Apart from the odd mosquito it is one of the best vegan/vegetarian restuarants I have ever eaten in and I can't recommend it highly enough. It was child friendly, which is not universal in Vienna, and has a small number of seats outside. It is reasonably priced too.
Pros: Varied, tasy menu , friendly staff, Non-smoking inside
Cons: Mostly "meat substitute dishes.
Guest
Nudelholz
Points +88
Not vegan friendly - Edit
This restaurant isn't really vegan friendly. I was there for the lunch buffet today and asked what of the offers is vegan. They gave me the answer that everything on the buffet is vegan.
Read moreStarting to eat, I realized that there definitively was egg in the fried rice.
Giving wrong information on the ingrediants of the dishes is a no-go - and the worst mistake that could happen in a restaurant that is said to be "vegan-friendly".
Knowing that I can't trust the information I get there, eating there is really no fun, because you are suspicios with every bite. I also recognized honey on the buffet that was claimed to be completely vegan. In my eyes this is not a trustworthy place. A vegetarian restaurant that cares about the intrests of their coustomers would make sure that the staff dosn't give wrong information. If they even don't manage to organize their place in a way to solve this simple task, who knows what is going wrong there behind the sceens.
So I won't go there again, although the things I tried tasted ok. But - I certainly only want to spend my money where I can trust the information about the ingredients.
Pros: tasted ok, all you can eat buffet at lunchtime
Cons: indicated food as vegan that weren't, I couldn't trust them, Suspicious with every bite
Guest
nspanee
Points +251
lots of fake meats - Edit
always on the visit list when in vienna.....
Read morenice atmosphere, good food....
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marnia
Points +84
Very satisfying experience - Edit
So we got there before they opened for the evening, and grabbed a member of staff on her way out to check they would be opening, she seemed on the verge off offering to let us in because it was so cold, but my partner decided we were too emabarrased. we returned soon after (it felt like much longer in the freezing arctic temperatures) I ate a delicious crispy duck style dish and my partner had a pork dish, she feels it was pretty much the best cooked fake meat dish she had ever eaten. I also enjoyed mine a lot.
Read morePros: Tasty, good staff, stylish interior
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danidancheva
Points +44
genuine taiwanese cuisine - Edit
as I've been to Taiwan twice (a great place for vegetarians/vegans to go!!!), I can tell you honestly this place serves the real thing. Some people say "greasy" or "mushrooms" but that's what this cuisine is about - I mean they do fry some things, but they also have great stirfries. So if you don't like fried food there's always an option! Great main courses (always with rice) and fantastic sorbet and red-bean&rice cookies! Tried the buffet the other day - also great - just 6,80Euro a person. Don't accept credit cards for the buffet though, we had a problem there :))
Read morePros: great food, many vegan dishes, your dog can join you!
Cons: smoking
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limade
Points +33
good value for money - Edit
We went for the luch buffet and were very satisfied.
Read moreGood variety of salty and sweet items, some salads and sushi. A lot of the offerings were deep fried which is nice occasionally but you couldn't eat like this every day. They also offer a reasonably priced lunch menu which I have not tried yet.
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andrea
Points +638
If you're really hungry - Edit
I have to admit I wasn't excited about some of the dishes because they were loaded with a couple of ingredients I don't really like (notably mushrooms). But overall they were pretty good. Watch out for the two/three items that are not vegan; ask and they will tell you. The little dim-sum type items were extremely greasy. Really to the point of not being worth eating at all. Couple of salads were nice too. It was so busy I don't know why some of the food seemed so soggy.
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kamikazekid
Points +134
Really good - Edit
Had a fantastic meal at Vegetasia - really nice surroundings (though be warned - as with everywhere in Vienna people think nothing of smoking in restaurants or having their dog accompany them!) and great food. Lots of choice though we struggled a bit in translating and sussing which items were vegan. My boyfriend thought the food was a bit too salty though I thought it was fine. I couldn't eat there every day but it's certainly a really good restaurant
Read morePros: Tasty food, Helpful staff
Cons: A bit smoky
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