Vegan Tampa

Ybor City · $ · coffee, sandwiches, bakery

Blind Tiger is a Tampa coffee roaster with cafes around the city, roasting since 2014. The Ybor City room on East 7th Avenue is the one most visitors meet, and there are others in Seminole Heights on North Florida Avenue and in Westchase on Montague Street. Visit Tampa Bay lists it on its plant-based guide for the vegetarian sandwiches and vegan desserts that sit alongside the coffee, which makes it one of the few Tampa places open from half past seven in the morning with something for a vegan to eat.

Tampa Heights · $ · sandwiches, coffee, breakfast

Cafe Hey is the small coffee and sandwich room on North Franklin Street that Tampa Heights has used for years, and Creative Loafing calls it a Tampa Heights staple. It runs a vegan brunch every Sunday until it sells out, which sits oddly and happily next to a menu of meaty sandwiches. Thursday night is open mic, and the bill is musicians, comedians, poets and whoever else signs up.

Downtown · $ · ice cream, dessert

Chill Bros makes handcrafted small-batch ice cream in Tampa and runs scoop shops around the city, including Water Street, Ybor City, South Howard Avenue, Bay to Bay Boulevard and a counter inside Armature Works. The brothers behind it keep a run of vegan flavours on the board alongside the dairy ones, made with oat milk and coconut cream rather than as an afterthought, which is why Visit Tampa Bay puts it on its plant-based list. The Water Street shop is a short walk from the Riverwalk and Sparkman Wharf.

Palma Ceia · vegan desserts, ice cream, smoothies

Coco Lov is a family-run dessert shop on South MacDill built around coconut milk, dates and sea moss. The ice cream, cheesecakes, chocolate mousse, smoothies and bowls are plant-based, gluten-free and dairy-free, with no refined sugar. The current Tampa Instagram bio publishes daily hours, and the official menu lists the Tampa address and the ingredients for each dessert.

Palma Ceia · bakery, vegan, breakfast

HaleLife is a bakery and bistro on South Dale Mabry Highway whose whole kitchen is built around food restrictions rather than around a diet trend. Its own South Tampa page states the rule plainly: 100% Gluten-Free, Vegan, & Allergy Friendly. The kitchen is dedicated free from gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts other than coconut, and shellfish, traced down to the manufacturer, and the company says it has had no reported reactions since opening in 2017. The board runs to beignets, cinnamon rolls, donuts, breakfast tacos, pizza and cakes. USA Today named it a top gluten free bakery in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

plant-based, gluten-free, breakfast

Plant Life is a plant-based, gluten-free kitchen on Henderson Boulevard serving breakfast, bowls, sandwiches and prepared meals. It also supplies food at Urban Jungalow on West Cass Street, where its menu sits beside SOHO Juice Co. That relationship matters because Tampa guides often list the brands as separate restaurants without telling you that two of them can be found inside the same North Hyde Park cafe.

vegan, prepared foods, breakfast

Pure Kitchen is a 100 percent vegan grab-and-go kitchen on West Kennedy Boulevard. The menu changes every morning and the food is made in small batches from fresh ingredients, so this is the practical stop when you want a prepared meal without ordering from a fixed restaurant menu. The kitchen posts the day's choices on Facebook and Instagram, and its September 26, 2026 Instagram post confirmed that the shop was open that day.

North Hyde Park · $ · juice, acai, smoothies

SOHO Juice Co makes superfood acai bowls, smoothies, waffles and soft serve, and it now operates out of Urban Jungalow on West Cass Street rather than the South Howard Avenue address it is still listed under in older guides. TAMPA Magazine's downtown vegan and vegetarian guide describes the whole operation as entirely vegan. It trades under Everwell Hospitality.

Seminole Heights · european, sandwiches, gastropub, american, bar food

The Independent has been the beer bar of Seminole Heights for about fifteen years, a European-inspired pub on North Florida Avenue with a cafe attached that serves the same kitchen menu plus coffee and baked goods. The draft list is built from imported and American craft beer, and the kitchen runs from Bavarian brat platters to tempeh reubens. Visit Tampa Bay records 50 seats indoors and a total capacity of 150 with the outdoor space, and lists live music, gallery openings and beer and wine events as the regular calendar. The bar stays open to 1am at weekends, which in this stretch of Seminole Heights is unusual.

$ · vegan, halal, middle eastern

The Vegan Halal Cart is a fully vegan food truck working South Tampa, run by Nick Alami, the University of South Florida alum behind Vegan International Co. on North Nebraska Avenue. It takes the New York street-cart format, the gyro and the kefta and the rice plate, and builds it without animal products. Alami told TAMPA Magazine that more than forty percent of his customers are not vegan.

Tampa Heights · florida, seafood, new american, southern

Richard Gonzmart of the Columbia Restaurant Group opened Ulele in August 2014 in the old Tampa Water Works building on the Hillsborough River, next to the natural spring the restaurant is named for. He calls it his legacy and points out that it sits four blocks from where his family lived and about 300 yards from where he was born at St. Joseph's Hospital. The kitchen works off a ten foot barbacoa grill and builds the menu from Florida produce, seafood and other proteins, with native-inspired dishes behind the name of the Tocobaga princess Ulele. Ulele Spring Brewery operates inside the building and was the first on-site brewery in Tampa Heights, pouring Rusty Red, Water Works Pale and Hydration Station Lager.

University Area · vegan

Vegan International Co. is a fully vegan kitchen and small market on North Nebraska Avenue in north Tampa, near the University area. Its own about text is unambiguous: it says it is a 100% Vegan restaurant with market items, and that the store offers express service for take-out as well as limited outdoor dining. The kitchen says the meal you are eating was prepared the same day by committed and knowledgeable vegans, and the business also runs a food truck called the Vegan Halal Cart. It is open seven days a week, which is unusual for a small vegan kitchen in this city.

vegan, coffee, bakery, breakfast

WeVegan Cafe sits on South Manhattan Avenue in Interbay, and its owners Sandra Carson and Effren Denson are Tampa natives who grew up in that neighbourhood. The business started because they went plant based and could not find a vegan cookie they actually enjoyed, so they worked on their own recipe until they had one they loved. They sold the first batch at a farmer's market in November 2017, which grew into a wholesale business supplying vegan cookies and breads to coffee shops and delis around the bay, then an online retail operation when Covid hit the restaurant industry, and finally this cafe. It serves craft coffee, homemade baked goods and hot and grab-and-go breakfast and lunch seven days a week.