57 Macleay St Potts Point Yellow isn’t strictly vegan, but everything on their dinner menu is strictly vegetarian, with a vegan altneratives of the five and seven course tasting menus available, too. A la carte opt ions include salted Mexican cuucbers with Greek basil, and this elegant kohlrabi with enoki mushroom and vegetable broth dish. http://www.yellowsydney.com.au/

Newtown and Bondi Sadhana was one of Newtown’s original raw vegan cafes, and now has digs in Bondi as well. Tuck into cultured cashew cheese layered lasangne, with walnut mince and basil pesto, or a salted caramel-topped cocowhip soft serve, made entirely from probiotics and coconut flesh. http://www.sadhanakitchen.com/menu/

43 Gould St Bondi Bondi’s latest mylk bar is a riff on the traditional model, churning out beautiful handmade dairy-free vegan sweets and pastries. Cinnamon doughnuts with vanilla custard, Oreo-stuffed cupcakes and raw Snickers-style desserts. They also make the custom almond-macadamia mylk for nearby Coffee. https://www.instagram.com/zeitgeistmylkbar/

95 Bondi Rd, Bondi Staying in Bondi, The Plant Gallery serves up Peruvian-inspired raw fare, including smoky gazpacho shots, beetroot carpaccio and Caesar salad, complete with eggplant bacon, coconut chips and creamy cashew sauce. http://www.theplantgallery.com.au/

379 King St, Newtown Anyone who thinks a vegan diet is devoid of flavour needs to wrap their laughing gear around a dairy-free blue cheese laden Swiss brown mushroom pizza, complete with radicchio, roasted walnuts and plenty of garlic. For a pizzeria to go cheese-free was a risky move, but at Gigi’s, it’s paid off. http://www.gigipizzeria.com.au/

22-24 King St, Newtown Vegetarian butcher might sound like an oxymoron, but at Suzy Spoon’s you can stock up on sausages, schnitzels and smoky rashers that are completely meat-free. If you’re vegan and hungover, the big breakfast complete with two sausages, rashers, hash browns and a faux egg may just be your ticket to salvation. The current premise will shut down on May 16, but the team has launched a crowding funding campaign to find a new store. http://www.ssvb.com.au/

49 Perouse Rd, Randwick When Soul Burger posted the ‘plant-based disgrace’ as an April Fool’s joke, they never expecting the enormous level of interest they received. But so many people were keen to try the tower of planted-based sausage, schinitzel, fish, beef, mushrooms, falafel and whatever else, on top of a coconut thickshake, and laden with two sauce syringes, they decided to put in the menu. Yep, the freakshake-cross-burger mania is not just for the mainstream. A short summary: Sydney’s obsessions with burgers is now available in vegan form. http://www.soulburger.com.au/

Various locations The vegetarian version of the McDonalds’s serves up vegetable pattie burgers and poutine-style fries (cooked in vegetable oil, rather than beef tallow), plus vegie nuggets and munchies. It’s not strictly vegan, but most of the menu items are animal-product free and can be changed to suit. Best consumed towards the end of a big night. http://www.lordofthefries.com.au/

Newtown and other locations Lentil as Anything is best known as a non-for-profit, community-driven café. You come in, eat and pay as little or as much as you can afford, via a donation box. The menu changes, with world-wide influence, but you’re guaranteed a chai and dessert. In between might come a Gujerati cabbage bake with coconut chutney, Tibetan thukpa noodles in broth, or a Sri Lankan coconut masala. http://lentilasanything.com/sydney/