This food truck is one of the most exciting vegan options to hit New Orleans recently, serving a surprisingly vast menu of 100 percent vegan sandwiches (including the ultra-delicious Better Than Popeyes sandwich), burgers, gumbo, sides, and salads, as well as special items only available certain days of the week — most notably, a delicious vegan crunch wrap served on Tuesdays. The truck can be found Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the rear parking lot facing Florida Avenue, and can be booked for private events.

Sweet Soulfood has managed to swiftly delight and impress the New Orleans vegan community and those outside it with a mash up of vegan soul food and sweets. From vegan options like chicken fried cauliflower, eggplant lasagna and cheesy grits to bread pudding, potato salad, jambalaya, and ice cream, there’s plenty to choose from at this affordable, lively Treme eatery. Note: Open until just 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Trilly cheesesteaks recently returned to New Orleans’s vegan scene in a new location, to the delight of the vegan and non-vegans fans that have been gobbling up the plant-based cheesesteaks since it started as a pop-up in 2017. While it also serves meat cheesesteaks, Trilly prides itself on using completely separate cooking equipment for vegan and non-vegan ingredients. You don’t miss the meat in the classic vegan Philly, with other favorites to include the vegan buffalo chicken and vegan Far East Philly.

Set up in a new location at the corner of Burgundy and Louisa Streets, Sneaky Pickle is back, serving both lunch and dinner through a separate, nighttime-only version of the restaurant called Bar Brine. Both menus offer a good number of vegan options, with favorites including the tempeh rueben and vegan mac and cheese for lunch, and new dinner dishes including tofu lettuce wraps; vegan bucatini with mushrooms; and grilled Romanesco with grits.

I-tal Garden on Claiborne — “i-tal” being a play on “vital” — follows in the footsteps of Sweet Soulfood and Vegan Wit’ a Twist before it, serving creative, crave-able vegan soul food dishes heavy on vegetables, not to mention a robust breakfast menu. The build-your-own-plate lunch option offers plentiful combos of one or two veggie proteins with three sides for $14 and $16, respectively.

This counter and table service spot in the French Market is a gem. They aren’t all vegan, but Meals From the Heart has the much-sought-after Beyond Burger, meatless “bleeding” patties (recently embraced by the White Castle chain, FYI), and that’s worth a trip alone. Known for having one of the best crab cakes in the city, Meals From the Heart also serves a vegan version, a rare beast for sure. Other great options include vegan cheesesteaks and vegan okra gumbo.

A good number of local vegan-friendly restaurants are casual, breakfast and lunch-only spots — not so for Thaihey, a nice new sit-down Thai restaurant in the French Quarter. While it’s not strictly vegan, it offers a full, separate menu of vegan items — options for salad, soup, starters, and entrees. Certainly try the pumpkin curry, one of the restaurant’s specialties, as well as the fried tofu and lotus root or spicy eggplant.

Oozing Old World appeal, this beloved Riverbend bakery is now 100 percent plant based. In addition to vegan baked goods like cinnamon rolls, Breads on Oak dishes out a hefty sausage biscuit, a “muffanada” version of the New Orleans staple; a TLTA (tempe, lettuce, tomato and avocado); a “live food” veg sandwich; and a substantial simply Impossible burger. There’s now a second location in the CBD on Carondelet.

This lush, cheery “tropical” cafe nestled behind frosted glass garage doors on artsy Julia Street hits all the right notes. Its menu includes plenty of plant-based food (like vegan ceviche with mushrooms, beans, cucumber, aji limo, red onion, choclo, sweet potato, avocado and cancha) but the cafe will satisfy anyone in a party of meat eaters too with items like Brazilian chicken salad. Points for all vegan menu options being clearly labeled.

At the industrial-chic all-vegan Kindred on Maple Street, expect vegan comfort food like quinoa salads and bowls, vegan nachos, quesadillas, po’ boys, as well as high-quality, no-mix daiquiris and a full cocktail program. Diners can also count on Kindred for brunch and special holiday menus, a seriously rare find in a vegan restaurant.

There are three locations of the adorable Bearcat Cafe which splits its menu into “good cat” and “bad cat” sections, depending on how much you want to indulge your inner beast. Most of the vegan items appear on the “good cat” side. It serves breakfast and lunch with vegan rancheros and quesadillas, chia pudding, vegan grilled cheese, vegan portobello Philly, and vegan queso, to name a few.