Vegetarian dishes in Dubai: what restaurants actually publish
We checked the published menus of 50 Dubai restaurants for vegetarian and vegan markers. 18 of them mark dishes in a way we can reproduce — 206 dishes in total. One more states that its whole menu is vegetarian without marking dishes one by one. The rest print nothing, print a symbol we cannot read, or print markers that contradict themselves. Every list of “vegetarian dishes” you find for the others was written by someone reading dish names and guessing.
| Restaurant | Cuisine | Status | Marked | What we found |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Queen | French-Mediterranean | Publishes markers | 32 dishes | The menus print a legend — (D) dairy, (G) gluten, (N) nuts, (S) seafood, (V) vegetarian — and the dishes marked V are tagged vegetarian here. No vegan marker is used. |
| Allo Beirut JBR | Lebanese | Publishes markers | 4 dishes | The operator names four items in its Go Healthy section as vegan or vegetarian; no dietary legend or filter is applied to the rest of the menu. |
| Amaya | Mediterranean and international fusion | Publishes markers | 4 dishes | Four items tagged on the restaurant's own Deliveroo storefront — two vegan, one vegetarian, one gluten free. |
| Asia Asia Dubai Marina | Pan-Asian | Publishes markers | 17 dishes | The à la carte PDF prints a full allergen key ending “V - Vegetarian”; seventeen of the dishes we list carry the V. |
| Bombay Borough | Indian | Publishes markers | 12 dishes | The current food menu PDF ("Digital_Borough_Dubai_Food Menu v2", read 8 October 2026) prints a legend — G gluten free, D dairy, N nuts, V vegetarian — and twenty dishes carry the V. The Vegetable Dum Biryani, breads, rice, dals and the desserts carry no V. |
| Gigi Rigolatto | Italian | Publishes markers | 13 dishes | The menu PDF prints a legend, “(V) Vegetarian”, alongside nut, dairy, egg, gluten, seafood and shellfish codes; thirteen dishes on the September 2026 food menu carry the V. |
| Jamavar Dubai | Indian | Publishes markers | 6 dishes | The a la carte PDF prints a legend, “V - Vegetarian”, and six dishes carry it. |
| Maison Revka Dubai | Slavic-inspired fine dining | Publishes markers | 16 dishes | The food menu PDF prints a full legend — vegetarian, gluten free, dairy, shellfish, seafood — and sixteen dishes carry the vegetarian mark. |
| Mythos Urban Greek Eatery | Greek | Publishes markers | 21 dishes | The food menu PDF prints a legend — [v] vegetarian, [vg] vegan, plus alcohol, dairy, nut and beef-stock codes — and marks dishes with it. |
| Nando's Mall of the Emirates | Portuguese-style PERi-PERi chicken | Publishes markers | 26 dishes | Nando's own UAE menu marks items with a vegetarian icon; 26 of the dishes we list carry it. No vegan or gluten-free icon is applied. |
| Ninive Beach | Middle Eastern | Publishes markers | 2 dishes | The pool menu PDF prints a legend, “(V) suitable for Vegetarians”, and two dishes carry it. The bar menu carries no dietary codes. |
| Pickl | Cheeseburgers and fried chicken | Publishes markers | — | Pickl lists a plant-based burger range as its own menu section but publishes no vegetarian, vegan or halal tags on any other item. |
| Sufret Maryam | Levantine | Publishes markers | 28 dishes | The menu PDF prints a legend with a leaf symbol for Vegetarian (plus Nuts, Chilli and allergen icons) and marks dishes with it. The symbols are drawn as graphics, so we read them from the PDF itself rather than its text layer. No vegan symbol exists in the legend. |
| THREE CUTS Dubai | Steakhouse | Publishes markers | 10 dishes | The food menu PDF prints a legend including “(V) Vegetarian”, “(VG) Vegan” and “(NV) Non Vegetarian”; ten of the dishes we list carry V or VG. The fries are marked NV. |
| TOTÓ Dubai | Italian | Publishes markers | 6 dishes | The online menu prints a legend including “(V) Vegetarian” and six dishes carry it. |
| The Spaniel Dubai | British | Publishes markers | 6 dishes | The menus print a legend including Vegetarian (V) and Vegan (VG); dishes marked V are tagged here. Only fries and some sides carry VG. |
| Wagamama | Japanese-inspired Asian | Publishes markers | — | The Deliveroo storefront carries its own Vegan Main and Vegan Side sections and VG-prefixed item names, but marks nothing vegetarian, gluten-free or allergen-bearing. |
| Zaroob Dubai Marina | Levantine | Publishes markers | 3 dishes | The only dietary labelling on the storefront is the operator's own “Vegan Impossible” naming on three shawarma items; no legend or filter is applied elsewhere. |
| Kamat City Centre Deira | Vegetarian Indian and Indo-Chinese | Says the whole menu is vegetarian | — | Kamat's own FAQ states it is a pure vegetarian restaurant. No dish carries a vegan or Jain mark on the web menu, although the FAQ says vegan-friendly and Jain options exist. |
| Marugame Udon City Centre Deira | Japanese udon and tempura | Markers exist but are unreadable | — | The menu page shows small icons beside some dishes but prints no key saying what they mean. |
| PAUL The Dubai Mall | French bakery and café | Markers exist but are unreadable | — | The lunch and dinner PDF prints a vegetarian symbol in its key, but the per-dish symbols do not survive text extraction, so we cannot say which dishes carry them. |
| Sakhalin Dubai | MediterrAsian (Mediterranean and Asian, with Russian influences) | Markers exist but are unreadable | — | The menu PDF prints a vegetarian symbol in its key, but the per-dish symbols do not survive text extraction. |
| Sexy Fish Dubai | Japanese-inspired / Asian seafood | Markers exist but are unreadable | — | The September 2026 menu PDF prints “V” and “VG” after some dishes but gives no key saying what they mean, so we do not interpret the letters. |
| Aretha | Contemporary international, live music venue | Markers contradict themselves | — | The menu PDF prints a legend, “(V) suitable for Vegetarians”, but applies it to the oscietra caviar supplement, so its markers cannot be relied on. |
| Carluccio's Dubai Marina Mall | Italian | Markers contradict themselves | — | The brand's own menu page applies its vegan tag to dishes built on cheese or egg, such as a burrata and a cheese omelette, so its markers cannot be relied on. |
| Carluccio's The Dubai Mall | Italian | Markers contradict themselves | — | The brand's own menu page applies its vegan tag to dishes built on cheese or egg, such as a burrata and a cheese omelette, so its markers cannot be relied on. |
| Din Tai Fung | Taiwanese | Markers contradict themselves | — | The operator's own menu page marks several dishes both “Vegetarian” and “Chicken” or “Oyster Sauce”, so its markers cannot be relied on. |
| 3Fils | Asian | Publishes nothing | — | The restaurant's own menu page lists allergens for each dish but carries no vegetarian or vegan marker. |
| Al Fanar Restaurant & Café | Emirati | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the operator's branch page nor its Deliveroo storefront carries a dietary tag or filter. |
| Al Hallab Restaurant & Sweets | Lebanese | Publishes nothing | — | Menus are published only as non-extractable PDFs, with no dietary markers on the storefront either. |
| Al Safadi | Lebanese | Publishes nothing | — | No usable dietary marking: the storefront's "Vegan Menu" section lists meat dishes and no item carries a vegetarian, vegan or halal tag. |
| Anar Authentic Persian Cuisine | Persian | Publishes nothing | — | The restaurant's own menu page carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen marks. |
| Arabian Tea House Restaurant & Cafe, Al Fahidi | Emirati | Publishes nothing | — | The branch menu page carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen markers. |
| Bosporus | Turkish | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the mall listing nor the delivery storefront carries a dietary tag or filter. |
| Butcha Turkish Steakhouse & Grill | Turkish steakhouse | Publishes nothing | — | The restaurant's own menu page carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen marks. |
| Cutfish Dubai | Contemporary Japanese | Publishes nothing | — | The menus print an allergen legend (C crustaceans, N nuts, S soybeans, SS sesame, F fish, E eggs, D dairy, G gluten, M mustard/mollusk and others) next to each dish, but no vegetarian or vegan marker. Nothing on this page is marked vegetarian or vegan — ask the restaurant, as Japanese stocks and sauces commonly contain fish. |
| Eggspectation | All-day breakfast and brunch | Publishes nothing | — | Named vegetarian and gluten-free items exist on the menu, but no dietary tag, legend or filter is published on any official source. |
| Gazebo Dubai Festival City Mall | Indian | Publishes nothing | — | The menu carries no per-dish vegetarian or vegan marks; the site links separately to an allergen document. |
| Ibn AlBahr | Lebanese seafood | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the operator's own menu nor its delivery storefront carries a dietary tag or filter. |
| Il Gattopardo Dubai | Italian | Publishes nothing | — | No legend and no per-dish codes; the menu says only to ask a waiter about dietary requirements. |
| Isabella Cucina Italiana | Italian | Publishes nothing | — | A vegetarian code exists in the Business Lunch key, but no dish on the all-day menu we reproduce carries it. |
| Kelly's Cajun Grill Mall of the Emirates | Cajun grill (fast food) | Publishes nothing | — | The ordering site carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen tag, filter or legend. |
| Kinoya | Japanese | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the operator's own menu nor its Deliveroo storefront carries a dietary tag or filter. |
| Kokoro Dubai | Japanese | Publishes nothing | — | The main menu PDF carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen legend. |
| Operation:Falafel | Levantine street food | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the operator's own site nor its Deliveroo storefront carries a vegetarian, vegan or halal tag or a dietary filter. |
| RARE Brasserie & Bar | Modern French brasserie | Publishes nothing | — | The restaurant's own menu page carries no vegetarian, vegan or allergen marks. |
| SALT | Burgers and sliders | Publishes nothing | — | The delivery storefront carries no dietary tag or filter. |
| Somewhere | Mediterranean | Publishes nothing | — | The restaurant's site links out to an ordering platform and publishes no dietary information itself. |
| The Cheesecake Factory | American | Publishes nothing | — | Neither the brand's own menu nor its Deliveroo storefront carries a dietary tag or filter. |
| Zaatar w Zeit The Dubai Mall | Lebanese: manakeesh, wraps, salads | Publishes nothing | — | The UAE menu prints no vegetarian, vegan or allergen marks; it asks diners to tell the waiter about allergies. |
Why we will not fill in the blanks
It would be easy to read down a menu and label the obvious ones. We do not, and the reason is in the data above. One restaurant’s own menu marks its noodles “Vegetarian” and also “Chicken”. Another prints a vegetarian symbol beside a dish its own description calls thinly sliced veal with tuna sauce. If the kitchens themselves get this wrong on their own menus, a stranger working from dish names will get it wrong more often.
The stakes are not culinary. Someone keeping a religious observance, or avoiding an allergen, can act on a label like this. A guess dressed as a fact is worse than an honest blank, so where a restaurant publishes nothing, this site says so and gives you its phone number.
What a marker does and does not tell you
Where a restaurant does mark a dish, we reproduce its label exactly and nothing more. A “vegetarian” mark is not a vegan mark: several of these menus have no vegan category at all, and a dish marked vegetarian may well contain dairy, egg or honey. No restaurant here publishes anything about cross-contamination, shared fryers or stock bases.
So the marker is a starting point for a conversation with the kitchen, not a substitute for it. If you are ordering around a strict requirement, call ahead — the number is on every venue page, along with the date we last checked it.
Where to look next
The 18 restaurants that do publish markers have them on their dish rows, alongside the price. Full menus with current AED prices are on each venue page, and the price comparison ranks every restaurant we cover by what a main course costs. Our sourcing rules are set out in the editorial policy.
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Common questions
Which Dubai restaurants mark vegetarian dishes?
Of 50 whose published menus we checked, 18 mark dishes in a way we can reproduce — 206 dishes in total — plus 1 whose owner states the whole menu is vegetarian. The rest print nothing, print a symbol we cannot read, or print markers that contradict themselves.
Is it easy to eat vegetarian in Dubai?
Eating vegetarian is easy. Knowing in advance what is vegetarian is not, because most menus carry no marker at all.
Why do you only list 206 marked dishes?
Because those are the ones the restaurant itself marks. Every longer list you will find for these restaurants was written by someone reading dish names and guessing, which is not something we will publish about food.
Are there vegan options in Dubai restaurants?
Some of the menus that mark vegetarian also mark vegan; where they do, the distinction is kept in the table. Where a menu marks only “V” without defining it, we do not treat it as vegan.
Can I trust a restaurant's vegetarian marker?
Treat it as the restaurant's claim, which is what it is. Where a menu's own markers contradict each other we say so rather than pick the reading that produces a longer list.