The Best Vegetarian in the Netherlands
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The best vegetarian in the Netherlands, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, the Lekker 500, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. De Nieuwe Winkel comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Amsterdam and Arnhem.
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Choux and Konijnenvoer hold the next two places. The Lekker 500 and the Michelin Guide show up on more of this list than any other guide.
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A food forest outside Nijmegen supplies the kitchen, and chef Emile van der Staak turns what he finds there into a fully plant-based tasting menu that holds two Michelin stars. Fermented tofu, almond-based "Brie", a kombucha skin crisped into something that tastes uncannily of prawn: the cooking is precise and quietly strange in the way that earns those comparisons to fine dining without any of the familiar anchors.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · #6 · Lekker 500
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- Lekker 500 2026 · #6 · Lekker 500
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a converted warehouse on the waterfront, where vegetables and fruit carry about ninety percent of the menu, with game and shellfish filling the rest. The chef frames it as cooking by season rather than by protein, and the plates show it: spring becomes a single bowl, winter a slow-roasted root. Organic and natural wines throughout, and the industrial-vintage room hums like somewhere locals found before the guides did.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · #82 · Lekker 500
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Lekker 500 2026 · #82 · Lekker 500
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Rank 3. Konijnenvoer
Vegetarian Mediterranean
The name means "rabbit food" in Dutch, which tells you exactly what the kitchen is working against. This plant-based restaurant in Arnhem turns local and fermented ingredients into something Mediterranean-inflected and genuinely textured, selected by the Michelin Guide for its trouble. An antipasti bar up front keeps things casual if you just want to graze. Old-school interior details sit alongside contemporary design, and the crowd tends to arrive curious rather than skeptical.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Lekker 500 2026 · Lekker 500
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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A fully plant-based restaurant in Amsterdam where the menu runs to things like pickle sorbet alongside potato salad, which tells you immediately whether you're the target audience. The room is intimate, the cooking is inventive without being smug about it, and the front-of-house pairs organic and biodynamic wines with a seriousness that matches the kitchen. For a vegan dinner that doesn't taste like a moral lecture, this one has a following.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
- Lekker 500 2026 · Lekker 500
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Rank 5. Le Jardin
Vegetarian French
Plants and cacti crowd the floral interior behind a dark blue façade on the Mariaplaats, setting the tone for a vegetable-forward French restaurant that calls its culinary philosophy "groentenomie." The front room runs intimate, the back airier and brighter, but both feel genuinely lived-in. The menu roots itself in French tradition with occasional Asian inflections, and yes, you can add fish or meat if a fully plant-based meal isn't your thing.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant