Dublin offers a diverse culinary scene, including many restaurants that cater to health-conscious diners. Whether you're looking for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or just a nutritious meal, Dublin has something for everyone. OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews monthly to identify the best restaurants. This guide, updated on October 5, 2025, highlights some of the top healthy restaurants in Dublin, offering a variety of cuisines and dining experiences.
Vegetarian and Vegan Paradises
Glas
Located just off Grafton Street, Glas stands out as Ireland's premier vegetarian and vegan restaurant. Chef Malte Half and his team have created an innovative and delicious menu. The elegant dining room caters to solo diners, romantic dates, and family celebrations. Glas is also Ireland's only 100% gluten-free restaurant, with an extensive wine list and fabulous cocktails. Children are welcome for lunch, but those under 8 are not catered for after 5:00 pm. Glas was recognized as the Best Vegetarian Restaurant at the RAI Awards 2023 and received the Best Practice in Gluten-Free Catering award from the Coeliac Society of Ireland. In 2025, it won Dublin's Best Sustainable Restaurant at the RAI Awards.
Sova Vegan Butcher
Sova Vegan Butcher is a newer establishment focused exclusively on vegan and vegetarian cuisine. This restaurant aims to promote vegan food prepared according to its unique style. It composes vegetarian and vegan dishes that taste excellent while providing all the essential nutrients, benefiting both body and soul.
The Happy Pear
While technically located just outside Dublin in Greystones, The Happy Pear is worth the short train ride. This cafe is passionate about serving healthy, nutritious, and delicious food. Their enthusiasm for vegetables is contagious, making the cafe an integral part of the Greystones community. They offer many vegetarian and vegan options, and their soups and one of their daily mains are always gluten and dairy-free.
Cornucopia
Cornucopia, located on Wicklow Street, is a well-established, comfortable, casual dining restaurant with counter service. It offers delicious, home-cooked vegetarian and vegan-friendly breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, juices, bread, cakes, and desserts seven days a week. They also cater to coeliac, sugar-free, and raw/living menu options, with a small, well-chosen organic wine list.
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Blazing Salads
Blazing Salads Food Company is an independent, multi-award-winning, family-run vegetarian wholefood deli. They offer a wide range of delicious soups, salads, cakes, and savories, all made daily on the premises using only the highest quality ingredients. They emphasize whole and seasonal ingredients, and salads are sold by weight.
Happy Food
Happy Food was one of the first restaurants in Dublin to go all-vegan. Since January 2016, it has offered a fabulous range of vegan breakfast, lunch, dinner, treats, snacks, smoothies, juices, teas, and coffees. The location is slightly hidden in a laneway off Camden Street, where you can enjoy your lunch in the relaxed atmosphere of the YogaHub.
Middle Eastern Flavors
Bethlehem Restaurant
Bethlehem Restaurant stands out as the first of its kind in Dublin, offering authentic homemade Palestinian cuisine in the heart of the city.
Shaku Maku
Shaku Maku is a new Middle Eastern diner serving traditional dishes cooked according to age-honored recipes and techniques. It focuses on warm, fun, and inviting dining spaces to enjoy the best fresh ingredients from locally sourced suppliers. The name "Shaku Maku" translates to "What's the story?" and invites diners to share in the experience.
The Cedar Tree
The Cedar Tree has become a favorite Lebanese restaurant in Dublin, known for doing things the right way. All dishes are cooked fresh to order, using locally sourced ingredients whenever possible, and they even bake their own bread daily. The restaurant offers many vegan and vegetarian options and is a great place to share food with friends.
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Umi Falafel Restaurant
Umi Falafel shares a passion for the freshest and most authentic falafel in Dublin. Their bread is freshly baked, and the salads, pickles, and sauces are made to a family recipe. Umi is also a great choice for vegans and vegetarians. The Dame Street restaurant offers a casual and relaxing atmosphere with a modern seating area.
Yamamori North City
Yamamori North City, opened in 2007, is located in the heart of Dublin, overlooking the Ha'penny Bridge. The restaurant is housed in two stunning Georgian Houses and boasts original features that fit well into its modern Japanese theme. It displays beautiful 19th-century Japanese artwork and original Samurai Artifacts. Yamamori North City is perfect for all occasions and parties, offering sushi, tempura, Japanese grill, and ramen prepared fresh daily.
Global Cuisine with a Healthy Twist
Gursha
Gursha, located on Poolbeg Street, is Ireland’s only Ethiopian restaurant, offering an authentic dining experience that emphasizes communal eating and rich, flavorful dishes. The name refers to the Ethiopian tradition of feeding others as an act of friendship and love. Central to the menu is injera, a gluten-free sourdough flatbread made from 100% Teff flour, used to scoop up various stews and curries. The menu caters to both meat lovers and vegans, with many dishes naturally gluten-free.
The Mongolian Barbeque
The Mongolian Barbeque offers a fun and unique dining experience where you choose your ingredients from a selection of meat, seafood, vegetables, tofu, and noodles. You then season with spices, herbs, and sauces. It's a very healthy way to eat, as they try to use as little oil as possible when stir-frying. They provide allergy information for their spices and sauces and can cook food separately in a wok for those with allergies or vegetarians.
Lucky Tortoise Temple Bar
Lucky Tortoise Temple Bar has been serving modern Dim Sum food in the heart of Dublin City since 2021. They cater to vegans and vegetarians and serve food "family style," offering a mix of dishes to try on the table.
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Diwali Camden Street
Diwali Camden Street offers a range of Indian dishes.
Andhra Bhavan
Andhra Bhavan specializes in South Indian cuisine, offering a delightful selection of crispy Dosas, soft Idlis, flavorful Vadas, delectable Uttappams, and the unique Peserattu. They also offer Hyderabadi Biryani and live Pani Puri, Vada Pav, and Samosa Chaat counters.
Tang by Yogism
Following the success of their frozen yogurts and breakfast menu at Yogism, they developed a new menu for Tang, their savory sibling. With a vision to incorporate yogurt into almost everything they do, they ventured into Middle Eastern food. Their dishes include tzatziki, flavored yogurts, citrus, honey, and black olives.
Eathos
Eathos has a passion for international food inspired by the world’s most pioneering chefs. They have created a menu of delicious food from fresh savory dishes to patisserie delights, paying particular homage to Eastern Mediterranean cuisine, made with the best artisan Irish ingredients and produce.
Quick and Healthy Options
Clean Eatz
Clean Eatz in Dublin offers a variety of delicious and affordable healthy food options. Their dine-in cafe menu includes burgers, wraps, flatbreads, meltz, and build-your-own bowls. They also offer meal plans, Grab ‘N’ Go meals, protein smoothies, healthy snacks, and catering. Most meals are under 500 calories.
Staple Foods
Staple Foods focuses on fresh, healthy, and delicious staple foods and drinks. They emphasize balanced, unprocessed foods that are fundamentally good for you, focusing on paleo and vegan, dairy-free diets, plated with a creative and innovative approach.
Chopped
At Chopped, they serve a crisp lettuce selection, garden-fresh vegetables, and incredible salad dressings. More than 30 ingredients are ‘Chopped’ and freshly dressed into their unique salad bowl. They offer a “Create Your Own Salad” experience and use special dressings made from the finest ingredients possible, focusing on healthier styles of food and low carbs.
Freshii
Freshii's nutritionist-developed menus contain bowls, burritos, salads, wraps, soups, smoothies, and juices. They make superfoods like kale and quinoa convenient and serve them at affordable prices. The menus change according to the latest culinary health trends, and all packaging is made from biodegradable corn & potato resin or is easily recyclable.
Pog
Póg serves freshly chopped salads, fresh fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies, frozen yogurt, smoothie bowls, gourmet coffee, and lots of vegan healthy treats. All of their products are carefully selected to ensure their customers are eating good food that is high in protein, vitamins, minerals, and good fats.
Irish Cuisine with a Focus on Health
Farm Restaurant
The two FARM restaurants in Dublin are Irish-owned, family-run premises that love Irish food and ingredients. They use as many organic ingredients as possible, free from GM, artificial additives, fertilizers, growth promoters, and herbicides. Many gluten-free and vegetarian options are available.
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