The Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia

If you plan to visit the Atlanta area and are interested in visiting an excellent vegetarian restaurant, you might want to try one of the three vegetarian restaurants listed below. Here you will find a review of each restaurants menu items, services offered, location, and hours of operation.

Cafe Sunflower

Cafe Sunflower offers a variety of vegetarian menu items from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean. They have two locations, Sandy Springs, which is located at 5975 Roswell Rd and 2140 Peachtree Rd, both in Atlanta, Georgia. They have been featured in the Vegetarian Times 2009 Dining Out Awards, Atlanta's Top Dining in 2007, USA Today, and several other journals and magazines. The Buckhead location's lunch hours are 11:30am to 2:30pm, Monday through Friday, and Saturday from Noon to 2:30pm. Their dinner hours are Monday through Thursday, from 5pm to 9:30pm, and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 10pm. The Sandy Springs location has the same lunch hours, but the dinner hours are Monday through Thursday from 5pm to 9pm and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 9:30pm. Both locations are closed on Sundays, except for special occasions.

Cafe Sunflower is well known for their stuffed acorn squash, 'an oven baked acorn squash filled with navy beans, corn, dried cranberries, mushrooms, carrots, wild rice, walnuts, and spinach and served with sauteed vegetables.' They also specialize in creating dishes that were meant to be served with meat, like Lasagna, steak salads, and sweet and sour chicken, the difference is that each menu item is served with soy meat. If you would like to see a full menu, visit cafesunflower.com.

This Easter Sunday, April 4th, 2010, Cafe Sunflower will be serving their buffet, with many menu item choices available. Reservations are recommended for this event. Also, Sunday, March 7th, 2010, they will be offering cooking classes for vegan and gluten free menu items at the Sandy Springs location. The cost is $40 per person and must be paid in advance.

Cafe Sunflower also offers catering services for parties with 10 to 250 attendees. They will customize a spectacular vegetarian menu that will make your guests ask you how to get in touch with them. they have gift certificates available to purchase from $25 to $100, and may be purchased online at http://cafesunflower.com/shop.shtml. You can also purchase a Cafe Sunflower cookbook here for $30 as well. If you enjoy your visit, and would like to prepare the same meals at home, this cookbook would be an excellent purchase.

Green Sprout

Green Sprout is an all vegetarian menu restaurant and is located at 1529 Piedmont Ave, Suite D in Atlanta, Georgia at the Clear Creek Mall. This quaint little restaurant offers two Chinese menus, the ordinary and the specialty. If you are looking for great taste, ordering off the specialty menu would be your best bet. All meat dishes are prepared with soy meat, potatoes and many more non-meat items. Most menu items cost about $8 to $11 for a great Chinese cuisine. There are seafood, beef, pork, and chicken options made with soy meat, and all have a surprising taste.

The only downfall about this restaurant is that is does not offer any catering services, classes, or party events. But, you can be sure to order from an excellent menu for lunch, dinner, and dessert. Definitely save room for dessert, cause you will want to try either the fried banana or apple with sesame sugar.

Green Sprouts hours are Sunday through Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30am to 10pm, and Friday and Saturday from 11:30am to 10:30pm. They are closed every Wednesday.

Dynamic Dish

Dynamic Dish offers an almost all vegetarian, Turkish-Bolivian menu, and is located at 427 Edgewood Blvd. in Atlanta, Georgia. They have been featured on CNN International and was named third out of ten in Bon Appetit for top modern vegetarian restaurants in the country. They are open for lunch Tuesday through Saturday from 11am to 3pm and dinner Thursday through Saturday from 6pm to 10pm and closed on Sunday and Mondays. Reservations should be made for dinner, since the restaurant is small and they do offer organic pizza night on Saturdays. They do offer a catering service for private parties.

This restaurant offers a home setting dining experience, and brings vegetarian family and friends together in one family atmosphere. You can start off ordering the Georgia Quiche Primevera, which comes in a circular pattern, layered with zucchini, red bell peppers, leiden, and braised with carrots and greens. Plenty of flavor and plenty to go around. For your main dish, try one of these two menu items, the tempeh-Georgia corn croquettes with mild pepper eggplant remoulade, flax roasted russet potatoes, steamed Georgia baby collards and watermelon radish or the beluga lentil-millet cakes with pea gravy, carrot parsnip mash, and steamed broccoli. Both dishes are mouth watering. You can view their full menu and photos of some of their fabulous menu items at www.dynamicdish.net.