Purezza, Bonsai Plant Kitchen, The No Catch Co., Oowee Vegan and The Roundhill are the five vegan restaurants in Brighton where nothing on the menu needs checking, because none of them cooks with animal products at all. Pick by appetite: pizza, grilled small plates, seaside chips, burgers or a pub roast. Plenty of other places in the city carry a vegan dish. These five carry nothing else, and that changes how relaxed dinner feels.
The most common slip is booking a famous vegetarian kitchen and assuming it’s vegan. Terre à Terre in the Lanes has been vegetarian since 1993 and cooks plant-based dishes with real care, but cheese and eggs still pass through that kitchen. Food for Friends works the same way. For a strict vegan, a vegetarian restaurant gives you a vegan option, while a vegan restaurant gives you the whole menu.
A quick test helps: would you have to say the word “vegan” to the server? At the five places below, you never do. Owners face the mirror image of this problem, since a kitchen that goes fully plant-based has to tell the public, and agencies such as Florida PR services sit on that publicity side of the trade. The numbering that follows organises the list. It isn’t a ranking.
Purezza opened in Brighton as the UK’s first fully vegan pizzeria and still runs its original branch at 12 St James’s Street in Kemptown. The house-made plant-based mozzarella is the reason to go, because it melts and stretches the way most dairy-free cheese won’t. It suits groups with one doubtful omnivore. Skip it if you want something light. The menu leans rich, on purpose.
Bonsai cooks over a binchotan charcoal grill and keeps the whole kitchen nut-free as well as plant-based. That second detail is the rare one. So much vegan cooking leans on cashew cream and nut cheeses that a diner with a tree-nut allergy usually orders from a narrow corner of the menu; here the full card is open to them. Book it for a date or a curious friend rather than a quick refuel.
The No Catch Co. sits on King’s Road along the seafront and does one job: fish and chips without the fish. In a city where the chippy queue is part of a beach day, it lets a mixed group eat the same seaside meal from one counter. Go at lunch and walk the paper parcel down to the pebbles. Anyone after a sit-down dinner with a wine list will be in the wrong place.
Oowee is the comfort-food pick, and it doesn’t pretend otherwise. Burgers, fried chick’n strips, buffalo cauliflower wings, loaded fries, onion rings and thick milkshakes make up the card. It trades as a franchise, so expect a set menu. Ideal after a gig at the Dome or a long night out. First-timers expecting vegetables will be surprised (pleasantly, mostly).
The Roundhill is a pub first. It went fully vegan in 2019 and kept what a local needs: beer, events, puddings and a Sunday roast. That roast is the strongest reason to visit, because a plant-based roast is the meal vegans in mixed families most often miss out on. Bring the in-laws. Nobody has to adapt to anything.
Say you’re booking for six on a Saturday: two vegans, one friend with a cashew allergy and three meat-eaters who’d rather not hear about it. Bonsai covers the allergy without a single swap. If the meat-eaters are the louder voices, The Roundhill wins, since nobody argues with a pub roast.
| Restaurant | What you’re eating | Suits | Skip it if |
| Purezza | Pizza with house-made vegan mozzarella | Groups, sceptical omnivores | You want a light meal |
| Bonsai Plant Kitchen | Charcoal-grilled sharing plates | Nut allergies, date nights | You want fast food |
| The No Catch Co. | Vegan fish and chips | Seafront lunches | You want table service |
| Oowee Vegan | Burgers, wings, shakes | Late-night cravings | You want vegetables to lead |
| The Roundhill | Pub food, Sunday roast | Mixed families | You’d rather avoid pubs |
A new plant-based place opening on the coast still has to get its name into listings and local papers, which is the kind of outreach sites like Tennessee PR Local are named for.
No. It’s vegetarian with a strong vegan selection, so mention a strict diet when you book.
V360 on the seafront serves fully plant-based whippy ice cream and gelato, which pairs neatly with a No Catch lunch. For café owners after wider coverage, Indiana PR catalogs is one listing among many. Opening hours shift with the season, so check before you walk down.
The kitchen is nut-free by policy, according to Brighton food guides. Tell the staff anyway, since only they can confirm today’s ingredients.
For a family Sunday, reserve at The Roundhill early in the week. Teams behind new openings can look at Ohio PR wire once they’re ready to announce. For a first night in town, Purezza in Kemptown is the safe bet.
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