If you want a dedicated vegan restaurant in Kingston, start with Kamila's Kitchen, which has a location at The MarketPlace on Constant Spring Road and a third downtown Kingston spot that a January 2025 Gleaner report described. The Cheffing Don, also on Constant Spring Road, is a fully vegan restaurant with a menu of black rice, curried chickpeas and a barbecue jackfruit burger. For a fully vegan menu that delivers, It's Vegan on Hagley Park Road lists ackee with veggie mince, Ital stew and fried breadfruit.
Outside Kingston, the choice is thinner. Many of the options in Montego Bay, the Negril area and Black River are resort menus or mixed restaurants with plant-based dishes, and the dedicated vegan spots are fewer.
Vegan picks in Kingston and St Andrew
The Kingston and St Andrew listings are the easiest to plan around. They have the most detailed menus, and several of them list their hours and phone numbers.
Plant-based Jamaican cooking often centres on beans, peas and ground provisions.
Kamila's Kitchen, Skyline Levels and The MarketPlace
Kamila's Kitchen is a vegan restaurant with locations at Skyline Levels and The MarketPlace, 67 Constant Spring Road. The Jamaica Observer described its second location, which opened in 2024, as plant-based and farm-to-fork. The menu it highlighted included beetroot soup, V-Ital pizza, loaded nachos and cold-pressed juices. The Gleaner's January 2025 report on a third downtown Kingston location listed vegan nachos, jackfruit, jerkshroom wraps, V-Ital pizza, Rasta pasta and Singapore noodles.
Ask for the current menu and price list before you go. The restaurant is in Kingston, which is where most of the dedicated vegan options on this page are.
The Cheffing Don, Constant Spring Road
The Cheffing Don sits at 121 1/2 Constant Spring Road in Kingston 6, and it describes itself as a vegan restaurant. The menu includes black rice, turned cornmeal with gungo peas, curried chickpeas, pumpkin talkari, natural juices and a barbecue jackfruit burger. It is a useful pick if you want Jamaican flavours without any animal ingredients.
The hours are Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from noon to 7 p.m., and closed on Sundays. Menu prices are not on the restaurant's website, so ask about them when you call.
It's Vegan, Hagley Park Road
It's Vegan is at 38B Hagley Park Road in Kingston 10, and its menu is fully vegan. Dishes listed include ackee with cabbage and veggie mince, Ital stew, rice and peas, quinoa, boiled food, fried plantain, fried dumpling and fried breadfruit. The V Weekly Magazine listing, as it stood in October 2026, gives main courses at J$1,000 to J$1,200 (about US$6 to US$8). Delivery within Kingston and St Andrew is listed at J$700 (about US$4). Those prices are for main courses at this one restaurant, so they tell you what to expect here and nothing more about the island as a whole.
New Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant, Old Hope Road
New Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant is at 121 Old Hope Road, Shop 6, in Kingston 6. It is vegetarian rather than fully vegan, so ask about eggs and dairy before you order. The listing includes vegetable patties, juices, burgers, stir-fries, pasta, soups, daily specials and vegan pastries. The Visit Jamaica listing gives the telephone number 876-977-5243 for same-day questions.
Veggie Campus, Skibo Avenue
Veggie Campus is a vegan delivery food service based on Skibo Avenue in St Andrew. Visit Jamaica says it delivers lunch and dinner every day. The listing gives the telephone number 876-321-5298, which is the quickest way to check what is available that day and whether your area is covered.
More Kingston options with mixed menus
Mother Earth Cuisine, at 18 Oxford Terrace off Old Hope Road, is listed by Visit Jamaica as a vegetarian restaurant. Its menu includes jerk tofu, callaloo, Jamaican patties and natural juices. Because the restaurant is vegetarian, ask about eggs and dairy in the patty pastry.
DLE Eatery has a Kingston location at Unit 3, 9-11 Phoenix Avenue. Its menu is suitable for vegans and vegetarians, with smoothies, wraps, flat pizzas, salads, sandwiches, burgers, crepes and paninis. The same brand also runs a Montego Bay location, covered below.
Julie Mango Restaurant, at Suite 15, 39 Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew, is a mixed-cuisine restaurant with vegetarian and vegan options. It serves lunch and dinner and offers takeaway, curbside pickup and delivery, so you can eat in or take your meal with you.
Montego Bay, Negril and the resorts
Montego Bay and the Negril area have fewer dedicated vegan restaurants. The options are mostly resort menus and mixed restaurants, so the most useful question is which dishes are plant-based and how they are cooked.
Ackee cooked with vegetables is a plant-based breakfast staple.
Half Moon's vegan in-room breakfast
Half Moon in Montego Bay lists a vegan in-room breakfast at USD 37. The plate includes chia seed coconut pudding, fresh fruit, tofu and ackee scramble, sautéed spinach, grilled tomatoes, cassava tortilla and a quinoa pecan cranberry muffin. The resort's menu says it can accommodate vegan dietary needs, and its in-room dining prices are in US dollars, so the price stays in USD here.
Hotel Riu Reggae and Xtabi Resort
Hotel Riu Reggae says it offers vegetarian and vegan menu items across its restaurants, including vegetarian breakfast options. Its restaurants run on different schedules, so check the daily programme before you plan a meal there.
Xtabi Resort in Negril publishes a vegetarian menu and a dish called the Xtabi Vegan Special. Ask for the ingredient list for that dish and the current price, since the menu alone may not tell you what goes into it.
DLE Eatery in Fairview and Bollywood Dhaba
The DLE Eatery location at Fairview Shopping Center in Montego Bay serves vegan and vegetarian customers. Its menu includes smoothies, wraps, flat pizzas, salads, sandwiches and burgers, the same range as its Kingston location.
Bollywood Dhaba on Jimmy Cliff Boulevard offered vegan options within its northern Indian menu, according to a Jamaica Observer report from October 2024. It is a mixed-cuisine restaurant rather than a dedicated vegan place, so check the vegan dishes with the kitchen before you order.
Zimbali Retreat and Sundance Villa
Zimbali Retreat in Canaan Mountain, Westmoreland, is in the Negril area. It serves locally grown food and offers vegetarian and vegan options as part of that programme. It is not an all-vegan resort. Visit Jamaica says it also serves chicken, fish, conch and lobster, but no red meat.
Sundance Villa says its chef can customise meal plans for vegan and vegetarian guests. Ask the property to set out the plan in writing before you arrive.
Stush in the Bush, St Ann
Visit Jamaica describes Stush in the Bush as a farm-to-table vegan dining experience in St Ann. Reservations and access arrangements are the details most likely to change, so confirm before you go.
Elsewhere on the island
Nature Provides Vegan Restaurant in Black River is listed by Visit Jamaica as a vegan restaurant serving plant-based food. Ask for the hours and the address before you go. OMG Restaurant and Coffee Bar in Mandeville is a mixed restaurant with vegetarian options, including nut loaves and callaloo lasagna. Both are worth a call if you are already in those towns.
Outside Kingston, dedicated vegan spots are fewer, so plan ahead.
Which everyday Jamaican foods are vegan?
Many Jamaican staples can be vegan, but a plant ingredient is not automatically a vegan finished dish. The cooking liquid, seasoning, fat and toppings decide the answer. These dishes can be vegan when they are cooked without animal ingredients:
- Ackee cooked with vegetables instead of saltfish.
- Rice and peas cooked with coconut milk and plant seasonings, with no meat or meat stock.
- Festival, as long as the dough has no milk, butter or egg.
- Roast breadfruit, fried or boiled plantain, and boiled green banana, yam, cassava and other ground provisions.
- Vegetable soups, pepper pot soup, pumpkin soup, lentil stew and bean stew, if the stock is plant-based.
- Vegetable, ackee or callaloo patties, if the pastry has no butter, milk or egg.
- Fresh fruit and many fresh fruit juices.
Other dishes often hide animal ingredients.
How to order a vegan plate at a cookshop or jerk centre
At an ordinary cookshop, a direct question works best. Say what you eat, then ask about the pot. You could say something like: "I eat vegan. No meat, no fish, no chicken stock, no butter, no milk, no egg and no honey. Is the rice and peas cooked with meat? Is the callaloo cooked with saltfish or pig's tail? What vegetables or Ital dishes can I get?"
At a cookshop, ask what each pot was cooked with.
Good options can include plain rice and peas, callaloo, cabbage, steamed vegetables, plantain, roast breadfruit, bammy, boiled provisions, ackee cooked without saltfish, bean stew or Ital stew. Recipes differ from one cookshop to the next, so check each item rather than assuming the whole menu follows the same rules.
Jerk centres need extra care. Their main menus are usually built around chicken, pork, sausage or fish, but plant-based sides can still be on offer. Ask whether the rice, peas, festival, sauce, gravy or vegetables were cooked with meat stock, butter, milk or fish. If you are planning a jerk stop as well, the guide to where to get the best jerk chicken in Jamaica, parish by parish covers the main jerk spots.
Vegetarians should say whether eggs, dairy or fish are acceptable, because the word can mean different things to different people. The same is true of Ital. Some Ital cooks avoid meat and salt but still use fish, so ask clearly. For more on what Ital means in practice, read Ital Food in Jamaica: What It Is and Where to Eat It.
Before you go
Vegan and vegetarian menus change, and the details matter for planning. Before you travel, get these from the restaurant:
That last point matters most. Cross-contact procedures are rarely written down, so tell the kitchen about your needs and ask how the food is prepared. A quick conversation will tell you more than a menu can.
Common questions
These are the questions readers ask most when planning a vegan or vegetarian meal in Jamaica.
Does Jamaica have good vegan food?
Yes. Jamaica has a long plant-based tradition through Ital cooking, plus fresh fruit, vegetables, beans, peas, coconut and ground provisions. Visit Jamaica points to vegan and vegetarian dishes such as coconut rice and peas, callaloo, pepper pot soup, lentil and bean stews and vegetable patties. Kingston has the broadest choice of dedicated restaurants, and other parishes depend more on resort menus and mixed restaurants.
What are some traditional vegan Jamaican dishes?
Ackee cooked with vegetables instead of saltfish is one of the best-known. Rice and peas made with coconut milk, callaloo cooked without salted meat, roast breadfruit, plantain and pumpkin stew are others. Lentil and bean stews, boiled provisions and fresh fruit juices also fit, provided the cook uses plant-based stock.
Are there vegan-friendly resorts in Jamaica?
Yes, but vegan-friendly does not mean every restaurant and every dish at the property is vegan. Half Moon in Montego Bay lists a vegan in-room breakfast, and Hotel Riu Reggae offers vegetarian and vegan items across its restaurants. Before you book, tell the resort in advance, ask for the current menu, and check the stock and cooking fats.
Was Bob Marley a vegan?
The most accurate answer is that Bob Marley is widely associated with a vegetarian Ital diet. Calling him strictly vegan is not well supported. A 2011 Smithsonian Magazine article described his diet as vegetarian with an emphasis on Ital food, and it noted that Ital varies between Rastafari people.
Where are vegan restaurants in Kingston, including Half Way Tree and New Kingston?
The places listed here sit along Constant Spring Road, in Kingston 6, around Hagley Park and on Lady Musgrave Road, and Veggie Campus delivers from Skibo Avenue. If you are staying in New Kingston, check the route and the traffic time before you choose, since the same trip can take very different amounts of time at different hours.
Use the Weh Fi Nyam restaurant directory to find vegan and vegetarian places by parish, and start with Kingston or St Andrew if you want the widest choice. For more on the wider range of Jamaican food, see Eating Outside Your All-Inclusive: Local Food Near Negril, MoBay and Ochi Resorts.