Where is a fully vegan café in Cologne?

Hempies at Händelstraße 55 by Rudolfplatz is a 100% vegan bistro, open from 07:30 on weekdays, with a second café in the Machwerkhaus in Kalk. Gesund und Süß on Benesisstraße sells cakes and sweets made only with vegan and gluten-free ingredients and no refined sugar.

Where can you get vegan pancakes in Cologne?

At the Impact Café at Luxemburger Straße 190 in Sülz, where the pancake batter is always vegan. Its All You Can Pancake brunch puts a griddle on your table with vegan toppings for two hours, from €13.90 a person as of October 2026.

Which Cologne neighborhood has the most vegan-friendly cafés?

The Altstadt has the most cafés with vegan food, but in Deutz about half of all cafés serve it, most of them on the Deutzer Freiheit: Heimisch, with regional produce and Van Dyck coffee, ST. LOUIS Café, Kaffebar and Café Nova.

Vegan Cafés in Cologne: Vegan Cakes, Pancakes and Brunch

Vegan cafés in Cologne range from fully plant-based kitchens to places where the vegan dish is one line on a longer menu. Hempies is the first kind: a 100% vegan bistro at Händelstraße 55 by Rudolfplatz, founded by Ronja because she found it hard to get good vegan snacks at the bakery in the morning.¹

The Altstadt has the most cafés with vegan food, but Deutz has the highest share, about half of its cafés, most of them along the Deutzer Freiheit. The Belgisches Viertel and Ehrenfeld come next, and Kalk has more vegan-friendly cafés than its size would suggest.

Local tip: Book a slot for All You Can Pancake at the Impact Café in Sülz; the café says its courtyard is at its quietest between 14:00 and 17:00.⁴

Where these cafés are: Altstadt (13), Deutz & Poll (9), Belgisches Viertel (8), Ehrenfeld (7), Zülpicher Viertel (6), Kalk (5), Südstadt (5), Sülz & Klettenberg (4), Mülheim (3), Nippes (2), Lindenthal (2), Zollstock & Bayenthal (1), Agnesviertel & Eigelstein (1).

At a glance

66Cafés listed

50With opening hours

06:00Earliest opening

00:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: Bäckerei Kraus, from 06:00 (Mon–Wed 06:00–18:00 · Thu 08:00–16:30 · Fri 06:00–18:00 · Sat 06:00–15:00 · Sun 08:00–16:30).

Closes latest: Bingo Club, until 00:00 (Mon 14:00–22:30 · Wed–Thu 14:00–22:30 · Fri 14:00–00:00 · Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun 12:00–20:30).

Most common features: indoor seating (61%), outdoor seating (48%), partial wheelchair access (29%).

Fully vegan kitchens

Hempies at Händelstraße opens at 07:30 on weekdays, at 09:00 on Saturday and at 10:00 on Sunday, and serves sandwiches, panini and pastries. Its second café is in the Machwerkhaus at Dillenburger Straße 87 in Kalk, with brunch, lunch specials and coffee on weekdays only.¹

Gesund und Süß at Benesisstraße 48 sells cakes and sweets made by hand at a manufactory in Bonn, using only vegan and gluten-free ingredients and no refined sugar.² At Cookie Couture on Ehrenstraße, open daily 10:00–20:30, the vegan cookies include Speculoos, Strawberry Cheesecake and a Black & White Brownie.³

Vegan pancakes and breakfast in Sülz

At the Impact Café at Luxemburger Straße 190 the pancake batter is always vegan. The All You Can Pancake brunch puts a griddle on the table with vegan toppings for two hours, from €13.90 a person as of October 2026, and coffee from Impact’s own direct-trade roast starts at €2.30.⁴ From 17:00 the café turns into a bar with vegan snacks.⁴

Close by, Café Bauchgefühl at Berrenrather Straße 160 opens at 08:30 on weekdays except Tuesday, and Bäckerei Kraus at Luxemburger Straße 321 starts at 06:00 on most weekdays.

The Deutzer Freiheit

Cafés with vegan food line one stretch of the Deutzer Freiheit. Heimisch at numbers 72–74 cooks from Oma’s (grandma’s) recipes with regional produce: vegetables from Bornheim farmers, dairy from the Hielscher Hof in Witzhelden, bread from a wholegrain baker in Hennef and beans from Van Dyck, an organic and Fair Trade certified roastery.⁵ It opens daily 09:00–18:00.

ST. LOUIS Café at number 89 offers breakfast from around the world with many vegetarian and vegan options, a daily soup or salad that can be vegan, and vegan cakes.⁶ Kaffebar at number 66 and Café Nova at number 106, open until 20:00 from Monday to Saturday, are on the same stretch.

Belgisches Viertel and the Altstadt

Café Bauturm at Aachener Straße 24–26 has been open for 30 years. It serves breakfast from 08:00 until late at night, with vegan breakfast specials, and its weekday business lunch from 12:00 to 15:00 always includes a vegan dish.⁷

Café Buur on Richard-Wagner-Straße opens daily 09:00–18:00, and vevi on Brüsseler Straße has tables outside. In the Altstadt, Jansen by Fassbender on Obenmarspforten, which its operator counts among the three oldest cafés in Cologne and whose interior is a listed monument, has vegan options too.⁸

Vegan & vegetarian cafés in Cologne

At a glance

bambule. Kaffeebar

Bingo Club

Café Bauchgefühl

Café Buur

Café Kawa

Café Kogi

Café Nova

Café Sehnsucht

Café Soleil

Café Vílena

Café Wahlen

Caffettiamo

Chocolat Grand Café

Cookie Couture

Cup Of Sun

Die Eisdielerin

Don Gelati

easylivin'

Eiscafé & Pizzeria Cortina

Eiscafe Candy

Eiscafe Cortina

Gelateria Cafeteria Süd

Heimisch Kaffee & Regionales

Hempies

Hempies

Hinz und Kunz

Impact

Jansen by Fassbender

Jim und June

Kaffebar

Kaffeebud Ehrenfeld

Kaffeekiosk

Kaffeesaurus

Lint No. 7

Lumos

Park-Café

Fully vegan kitchens

Vegan pancakes and breakfast in Sülz

The Deutzer Freiheit

Belgisches Viertel and the Altstadt

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Vegan & vegetarian in Cologne: questions

Where is a fully vegan café in Cologne?

Where can you get vegan pancakes in Cologne?

Which Cologne neighborhood has the most vegan-friendly cafés?

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