Finding plant-based food in Leeds without relying on old menus

Finding vegan food in Leeds starts with checking the dish you’ll actually order. Eat Your Greens, a restaurant highlighted in Visit Leeds’ food and drink guide, offers a useful example: its menu on 20 October 2026 explicitly distinguishes vegan dishes from a dessert with a vegan option. It also warns that the menu can change.[1][3]

Read Eat Your Greens’ Menu Key First

Eat Your Greens defines “ve” as vegan, “gf” as gluten free and “nuts” as containing nuts. Start with that key before interpreting the dish names. It gives you a direct basis for choosing the mushroom pearl barley risotto, for example, rather than having to guess from its ingredients.[3]

The following dishes appeared in the menu’s Plates section on 20 October 2026. Each carried an explicit vegan label. The descriptions give you something more useful to compare than a restaurant’s general reputation for plant-based cooking.[3]

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Use those details to narrow your choice, then reopen the restaurant’s own menu before going. If you’re particularly interested in the celeriac and quince combination, ask whether that dish is being served. The restaurant’s warning about changes leaves future availability unsettled, even when a saved menu looks recent.[3]

The Brownie and Beetroot Need Different Decisions

The dark chocolate brownie was listed at £8.50 with plum compote and torched meringue, followed by “ve option available”. Request the vegan option explicitly and ask what accompanies that version. The wording establishes that an option exists, but doesn’t identify the changes to the listed dessert.[3]

Beetroot & Pear needs a different reading. Its name leads with vegetables and fruit, but the description includes brown butter and the dish has no vegan label. Don’t put it on your vegan shortlist on the strength of the name. Nor does the menu promise that it can be adapted.[3]

Eat Your Greens also lists bavette steak and seabream. It’s a mixed menu, so check each choice separately. For this menu, the useful distinction is between a dish marked vegan as listed, a dish offering a vegan version and a dish whose wording provides no vegan confirmation.[3]

Check Trinity Kitchen by Trader

Trinity Kitchen’s street-food line-up page provides a different starting point. On 20 October 2026, Trinity Leeds’ operator page named Ka Bao and Tikks Thai Kitchen among its guest traders and explicitly included both in its list of places offering vegan options. That gives you named traders to check for a particular dish.[2]

Ka Bao’s description mentions crispy fried tofu and vegetable gyozas. Those are useful things to ask about, but the page doesn’t attach a vegan label to either individual item. Ask which bao fillings or gyozas are vegan and whether their accompanying sauce and garnishes are included in that confirmation.[2]

For Tikks Thai Kitchen, the page describes coconut curries as well as fried chicken. Its separate vegan-options listing helps identify the trader as a lead, while leaving the exact vegan order to confirm. Check the operator’s line-up again before travelling, then ask the trader which dishes are available that day.[2]

Use Kirkgate Market as a Starting Point

Visit Leeds’ food and drink guide points readers towards plant-based street-food choices at Leeds Kirkgate Market. Treat that as a place to begin looking. The guide’s vegan and vegetarian answer doesn’t name a particular market dish or provide its ingredients, so choose your stall and check its own menu before settling on an order.[1]

Keep Dietary Questions Separate

A vegan label answers a different question from an allergen enquiry. Eat Your Greens lists vegan, gluten-free and nut information separately and asks diners to disclose other dietary requirements. Those markings alone don’t establish preparation arrangements or allergen safety. If you have an allergy, explain it directly to the venue and ask about the specific dish and its preparation before ordering.[3]