Vegetarian and Vegan Options in Vieques!
Updated: Aug 13
What options are there for vegetarians and vegans looking for plant based food in Vieques, PR? Turns out, quite a lot! Check it out!
Vieques, Puerto Rico is a wild, remote, off-the-beaten-path vacation destination like no other, with hundreds of beaches, thousands of “wild” horses, the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world, and a truly surprising number of fantastic, fresh, creative restaurants. That’s especially impressive when you consider that Vieques has no big grocery stores, no traffic lights, no food chains or department stores, and an at-times shocking lack of fresh produce.
And yet, the restaurants here are absolutely thriving, creative, and fresh. (They must have great suppliers!)
But what about plant based options in Vieques?
You wouldn’t expect a tiny, remote Caribbean island like Vieques to have dozens of great restaurants, let alone absolutely fantastic vegetarian and vegan food, but here we are. While there are no exclusively vegetarian or vegan restaurants in Vieques, plant based food in Vieques is CRAZY plentiful, fresh, and often remarkably creative. From sweet plantains stuffed with veggies and cheese (canoas), inventive vegan sushi rolls, hearts of palm ceviche, BBQ jackfruit, coconut rice bowls, and tofu fish filet sandwiches, to comforting classics like eggplant parmesan, veggie burgers, veggie pizzas, veggie tacos, loaded veggie nachos, fried cheese curds, and more, you physically can’t try it all unless your vacation lasts a month.
And yet, Googling vegetarian restaurants in Vieques, vegan food in Vieques, or plant based options in Vieques usually turns up lackluster results. Vieques isn’t a very Google-able island at times, and sponsored ads tend to clog up the feed. Yelp gets it wrong, and most articles are written by people who only visited for 5 days. So where do you get accurate info?? That’s the point of this little article: to create something genuinely helpful for travelers searching for the best vegetarian and vegan dining options in Vieques, written by someone who eats plant based and has actually lived here for almost a decade. Check out the full Vegetarian Food in Vieques Doc here! Please note: this is a handmade Google Doc, not a fancy pants AI enhanced visual guide. It may not be swanky looking, but we've gotten rave reviews on how helpful it is! Read on for more info, or click that blue link above to get right to business.
So who’s writing this? My name is Sara, and I co-own a local sail and snorkel adventure tour company here on Vieques: Vieques Sailing Charters! I’ve put together a totally informal, absolutely subjective, non-all-inclusive, probably incomplete guide to vegetarian food in Vieques, because we, the owners of Vieques Sailing Charters along with our little family, are dirty, dirty vegetarians ourselves, and the guide above is EXACTLY what we would want if we were traveling somewhere new and looking for the best of the best. Which we do, a lot, because we have a boat. We are always wishing when we visit other islands that we could find a veggie food guide, so hey, we made one for folks who are visiting Vieques!
(And yes, if you’re looking for an all-inclusive sail and snorkel tour in Vieques with vegetarian, vegan, or plant based options, we ABSOLUTELY have you covered… but this post is about the restaurants!)
The guide is quick and dirty, but there's a whopping 28 restaurants and counting already on the list, so get ready to enjoy some AMAZING veggie food in Vieques!
I’ll do my best to keep it updated, but no promises. I’m pretty busy running our crazy little tours and raising our crazy little family! You can email me at info@viequessailingcharters.com if you have any feedback on the guide! Fair winds and following seas! But first, a few more food pics! Enjoy!
Happy eating! And don't forget to check out the quick and dirty Vieques veggie food guide here!
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