Budapest Michelin Vegetarian & Vegan Menus: 2026 Prices, Ranked

Five Budapest Michelin kitchens run a genuinely dedicated plant-based tasting menu, not a grudging swap-out: Stand (vegetarian, 89,500 HUF), Salt (vegetarian and vegan, 69,500 HUF), Babel (vegan, 55,000 or 69,000 HUF), Costes Downtown (vegan, 39,900 HUF), and Michelin-listed Tati Farm to Table (vegan, 19,480 HUF). If you want one recommendation and no further reading: book Tati, because it costs a fifth of the two-star option and the food is grown on its own farm.

Every figure below was checked against each restaurant’s own menu page in July 2026, and a few of them have moved a long way since the guides that keep getting copied around. Babel’s vegan menu is not 25,000 HUF any more. Stand cannot cook vegan at all, and says so in writing. Here is the current picture.

📋 At a Glance

Best For	Vegetarians and vegans who want a serious tasting menu, not a plate of grilled vegetables
Cost	19,480 HUF (Tati, vegan) to 89,500 HUF (Stand, vegetarian) per person, plus 15% service
Vegan-friendly	Babel, Salt, Costes Downtown, Tati. Not Stand, not Rumour
Book Ahead	Weeks for weekends. Salt and Rumour charge for late cancellations
Skip If	You want volume. These are 5 to 14 small courses, not dinner in the usual sense

A plant-based tasting course plated in the fine-dining style (generic, not a dish from any restaurant named here). Vegan Feast Catering via Flickr / Openverse, CC BY 2.0.

Budapest’s Plant-Based Michelin Menus, Compared

Prices are per person, VAT included, service charge on top. Verified against each restaurant’s own site, July 2026.

Restaurant	Michelin	Plant-based offer	Price (HUF)
Stand	★★	Dedicated Vegetarian Chef Menu. No vegan	89,500
Salt	★ + Green Star	14-course menu in vegetarian and vegan versions	69,500 (Sat lunch, 11 courses: 59,000)
Babel	★	Vegan versions of both tasting menus	55,000 (8 courses) / 69,000 (13 courses)
Costes Downtown	★	Standalone Vegan Degustation Menu; Vegan Chef’s Table	39,900 (6 courses) / 69,000 (7 courses)
Rumour	★	Vegetarian versions of both menus. No vegan	44,900 (6 courses) / 68,800 (11 courses)
Essência	★	Tasting menus, vegetarian on request	41,900 (5 courses) / 52,900 (7 courses)
Costes (Ráday)	★	Tasting menu adapted for vegetarians	37,500 (4 courses) / 51,500 (6 courses)
Borkonyha	★	À la carte vegetarian dishes; degustation on request	6,950 to 9,550 à la carte / 39,000 to 51,000 degustation
Tati Farm to Table	Michelin Guide listed	Dedicated 5-course Vegan Tasting Menu	19,480

Add 15% service to all of it. Stand charges 20% if you ask for a VAT invoice, which is the kind of detail that turns a 89,500 HUF menu into a 107,400 HUF menu without anyone lying to you.

Stand (Two Stars): The Best Vegetarian Menu, And No Vegan Option

Stand is Budapest’s only two-star restaurant, sitting on Székely Mihály utca just north of the Jewish Quarter, with a glass-walled kitchen in the middle of the room. The vegetarian menu is not an afterthought here: it is a separate, fully published Chef Menu at the same 89,500 HUF as the meat version, which tells you the kitchen treats it as equal work rather than a discount.

The current vegetarian run (summer 2026) opens with sunchoke crisp and pumpkin seed praline, kale and potato crisp, marinated radish with cream cheese, a chilled sour cherry soup, and a lángos with sour cream and Comté. Then an amuse called “Lecsó,” a chilled tomato consommé with roasted pepper and tomato tartare, before baked kohlrabi with green apple and pickled elderflower, grilled baby corn with kápia paprika and cashew miso, confit potato with onion jam and Roscoff onion velouté, homemade pasta stuffed with mushrooms and black garlic, savoy cabbage with fennel, and a Somlói to close.

Now the part most guides skip. Stand’s own menu page states it cannot offer a vegan, milk-protein-free or soy-free menu. Gluten-free and lactose-free versions of the Chef Menu are available. If you are vegan, this restaurant is simply not on your list, and no amount of advance notice changes that.

Prices: Vegetarian Chef Menu 89,500 HUF. Wine pairings 49,900 HUF (“Day of our life…”) or 149,900 HUF (“Rare Dream…”). Service 15%, or 20% with a VAT invoice. The whole table has to choose either the Chef Menu or à la carte, so you cannot mix.

Worth it? Yes, if a two-star vegetarian tasting menu is the specific thing you came to Budapest for and the bill does not make you flinch. Otherwise the ratio of money to plates here is brutal, and three of the restaurants further down this page do plant-based cooking that is nearly as interesting for a third of the price. Note that Stand closes for its summer holiday from August 2 to 18, 2026.

Salt (One Star + Green Star): The One With the Jars

Salt sits behind Hotel Rum on Királyi Pál utca, and the first thing you see is shelving loaded with jars of preserved and foraged fruit, vegetables and herbs. That is the whole thesis: local, seasonal, fermented, foraged, with butter and lardo made in house. It picked up its star in 2021 and the Michelin Green Star for sustainability in 2022, and both are still current.

The dinner menu is 14 courses at 69,500 HUF, and it is genuinely available in dedicated vegetarian and vegan versions rather than a plate-by-plate substitution. There is also a Saturday lunch at 11 courses for 59,000 HUF. The catch is that the menu is fixed and non-negotiable, so the restaurant’s own booking page asks you to declare vegetarian or vegan in advance, at which point they build you a separate menu.

Prices: 14-course dinner 69,500 HUF, Saturday lunch 11 courses 59,000 HUF. Pairings: Hungarian and Carpathian wines 39,000 HUF, European 42,000 HUF, Prestige classic 90,000 HUF, non-alcoholic homemade juice pairing 26,000 HUF. Service 15%.

Hours and rules: Wednesday to Friday 18:00 to 23:00, Saturday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 23:00, closed Sunday to Tuesday. Reservations only online with card details. Cancel or change inside 48 hours and you are charged the full menu price per person. Recommended for ages 10 and up, no dogs.

Worth it? If fermentation, foraging and a serious sustainability record are what you actually want from a meal, Salt is the most coherent choice in the city. If you want luxury ingredients and comfort, look elsewhere. The vegan version is one of only two full vegan menus at this level in Budapest that runs to 14 courses.

A tasting-menu course plated in the fine-dining style (generic, not a dish from any restaurant named here). Photo by Filipp Romanovski, free to use via Pexels.

Babel (One Star): The Strongest Vegan Menu in the City

Babel is on Piarista köz, a passage off Ferenciek tere, in a building whose walls still carry the watermarks of the Great Flood of Pest in 1838. One star since 2019, executive chef Kornél Kaszás, and a kitchen that works the whole Carpathian Basin rather than a narrow Hungarian-classics playbook.

For plant-based diners it is the deepest offer in Budapest: both tasting menus exist in full vegan versions, and they cost less than the standard versions. The 13-course Experience is 79,000 HUF standard and 69,000 HUF vegan. The 8-course Exploration is 59,000 HUF standard and 55,000 HUF vegan. That is rare pricing in a scene where “the vegan option” usually costs the same and arrives with half the work in it.

If you have read an older guide quoting a 7-course vegan menu at 25,000 HUF, that was a February 2022 price and it no longer exists. Budget 55,000 HUF as the floor now.

Prices: Vegan Experience (13 courses) 69,000 HUF, vegan Exploration (8 courses) 55,000 HUF. Wine pairing 39,000 or 29,000 HUF depending on menu, juice pairing 23,000 or 19,000 HUF. Service 15%. Experience seatings Tuesday to Saturday 18:30 to 20:30; Exploration at 17:30, 18:00 and 21:00 with limited tables.

Worth it? Yes, and it is my first pick among the starred options. Portions are small by design, which is the one consistent complaint, so eat a proper lunch. Full breakdown of the booking rules and cancellation policy in our standalone Babel review.

Costes Downtown (One Star): The Cheapest Starred Vegan Menu

Costes Downtown sits in the Prestige Hotel on Vigyázó Ferenc utca, the more casual sibling of the Ráday original, and it publishes a standalone Vegan Degustation Menu rather than adapting anything. At 39,900 HUF for six courses it is the cheapest fully vegan menu at a starred restaurant in Budapest, by a wide margin.

The current run: “Edible Art” with king oyster mushroom, celeriac and apple; “Our Garden,” the house signature, with cauliflower, peanut and micro herbs; roasted carrot with smoked lentils and black garlic; potato gratin with spinach, garden vegetables and a vegan jus; peach with mace and sorrel; grape with chestnut and stum. There is also a seven-course Vegan Chef’s Table at 69,000 HUF where you sit at the pass and watch it happen.

Cheaper still: the lunch menu runs daily from 12:00 to 15:00 and lets you build two to five courses from a list with clearly marked vegan options, from 11,900 HUF for two courses to 20,900 HUF for five. That is Michelin-level cooking for the price of a decent bistro dinner, and it is the single most underrated deal in this guide.

Prices: Vegan Degustation 39,900 HUF (6 courses). Vegan Chef’s Table 69,000 HUF (7 courses). Lunch 11,900 to 20,900 HUF. Pairings 22,000 (mocktail) to 30,000 HUF (wine). Service 15%. Open daily 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 23:00.

One caveat: the 2026 Budapest star lists in circulation disagree about whether Costes Downtown still holds its star. The Michelin Guide’s own page for the restaurant lists it as one star; several current Budapest round-ups count only seven starred restaurants and leave it out. Worth a 30-second check on guide.michelin.com before you book if the star specifically is what you are paying for. The vegan menu is excellent either way.

Tati Farm to Table (Michelin Guide Listed): The Value Winner

Tati is on Dohány utca in District VII, it has no star, and it is the restaurant I actually send people to. Chef Gábor Soóky’s kitchen runs a dedicated 5-course Vegan Tasting Menu at 19,480 HUF, against 22,480 HUF for the meat version, with a good share of the produce coming off the restaurant’s own farm outside the city.

The current summer run: roasted cauliflower with toasted almond cream, pickled snack cucumber and green apple; a seasonal vegan soup; corn fritter with corn velouté, pickled baby corn and a pine and spring onion espuma; stuffed pepper with a vegetable croquette, roasted kápia and white tomato consommé; and a vegan rice soufflé with sunflower parfait, elderflower cream and sour cherry juice. Each course names its producer on the menu, which is either charming or exhausting depending on your mood, but it does back up the claim.

What makes this the value pick is not just the number. It is that Tati does vegan versions of actual Hungarian dishes (stuffed pepper, rice soufflé, goulash’s neighbors) instead of the international vegan-restaurant playbook. If you came to Hungary to eat Hungarian food and you do not eat meat, this is the closest thing to a solved problem. Our guide to traditional Hungarian dishes explains what the originals are supposed to taste like.

Prices: Vegan Tasting Menu 19,480 HUF (5 courses), standard tasting 22,480 HUF, plus 15% service. Tasting menu daily 17:00 to 21:00, weekday lunch tasting 11:30 to 15:00, weekend brunch 09:00 to 15:00.

Worth it? Absolutely, and it is the first booking I would make. The room is more energetic and noisier than the starred places, service is friendly rather than choreographed, and it costs less than a fifth of Stand. If you are heading out of the capital afterwards, our countryside vegan restaurants guide picks up where this one stops.

Rumour by Rácz Jenő (One Star): Vegetarians Yes, Vegans No

Rumour moved to Petőfi tér in District V and hides behind an unmarked door, which is either theater or affectation depending on how your evening goes. Twenty-one seats wrap around the open kitchen, plus an upstairs Dining Room with conventional table settings. Chef Jenő Rácz earned a star in Shanghai before this, and the format is unapologetically a performance.

Both menus come in vegetarian versions: the 6-course Pre-Theatre at 44,900 HUF (17:00 seating, served in the Dining Room) and the 11-course Rumour menu at 68,800 HUF (20:00, at the chef’s counter). The restaurant’s FAQ is blunt about the limit: “We do not serve vegan menus.” Request vegetarian at booking, because they cannot accommodate it on arrival.

Prices: Pre-Theatre 44,900 HUF, Rumour menu 68,800 HUF, plus 15% service. Tuesday to Saturday 17:00 to 23:00.

The cancellation policy bites: modify or cancel inside 24 hours, no-show, or shrink the party size, and you are charged 40,000 HUF per person to the card on file. Not recommended for children under 12. No dress code, though most guests dress up anyway.

Worth it? For vegetarians who want dinner and a show, yes. It is the most theatrical seat in the city and the counter is genuinely fun. But at 68,800 HUF for the full menu it is priced against Babel and Salt, and neither of those makes you sit in front of a stage. If you are vegan, this one is not for you at any price.

Essência (One Star): Portuguese-Hungarian, Vegetarian on Request

Essência is chef Tiago Sabarigo and his Hungarian wife Éva doing a genuine Portuguese-Hungarian fusion on Sas utca in District V, which is a stranger idea than it sounds and mostly works. Bright arched front room, open kitchen, blue-and-white Portuguese tiling in the back.

Dinner is tasting-menu only: five courses at 41,900 HUF or seven at 52,900 HUF, plus 15% service. Vegetarian versions are made on request, but unlike Stand or Salt the restaurant does not publish a dedicated plant-based menu, so what you get depends on the kitchen’s improvisation that night. The published menus lean heavily on duck liver, caviar, lobster, cod, quail and beef, which is a lot of scaffolding to replace.

Prices: 5 courses 41,900 HUF (pairings from 56,900 HUF), 7 courses 52,900 HUF (pairings from 73,900 HUF). Caviar supplement 9,900 HUF, cheese course 4,200 HUF. Service 15%.

Worth it? Only if the fusion concept is the draw and you are a flexible vegetarian rather than a demanding one. The wine pairings are the strongest argument for going. As a plant-based destination specifically, four other restaurants on this page are better bets.

Costes (One Star): The Original, Adapted

Costes on Ráday utca was the first restaurant in Central and Eastern Europe to take a Michelin star, in 2010, and it has held one ever since. Modern European with French technique, elegant room, choreographed service.

The vegetarian route here is an adaptation of the main tasting menu rather than a menu designed from scratch, and the restaurant does not publish a vegetarian version. That is the whole trade-off: you get an excellent kitchen’s interpretation on the night, without the focused creativity that comes from designing a plant-based menu from the ground up. Flag it well in advance.

Prices: Menu Four 37,500 HUF (wine pairing 24,500 HUF, non-alcoholic 15,500 HUF), Menu Six 51,500 HUF (wine 35,500 HUF, non-alcoholic 22,500 HUF), Saturday lunch 4+2 courses 32,500 HUF. Service 15%. Wednesday to Friday 18:00 to 23:00, Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 23:00.

Worth it? For the prestige and the classicism, yes. As a vegetarian destination, it is the weakest of the starred options here precisely because it adapts rather than designs. The Saturday lunch at 32,500 HUF is the sensible way in.

Borkonyha Winekitchen (One Star): Wine First, Vegetables Second

Borkonyha on Sas utca is the least intimidating star in the city and the best wine list, roughly 100 bottles with a serious Hungarian focus and a lot open by the glass. It is where I send people who want a Michelin meal without the ceremony.

Vegetarians eat à la carte here rather than off a dedicated tasting menu. The current card carries eggplant with tomato and stracciatella at 9,550 HUF, a summer salad with egg and paprika at 6,950 HUF, and pasta with orda cheese, truffle and radish at 7,550 HUF. There is a degustation menu at 39,000 HUF (4 courses) or 51,000 HUF (6 courses), but no published vegetarian version, so call ahead if you want the full menu format.

Prices: À la carte vegetarian mains 6,950 to 9,550 HUF. Degustation 39,000 or 51,000 HUF. Pairings: organic juice 12,000 HUF, wine 29,000 HUF, premium wine 46,000 HUF. Service 15%. Monday to Thursday 18:00 to 24:00, Friday and Saturday 12:00 to 24:00, closed Sunday and public holidays.

Worth it? As the cheapest way to eat at a starred Budapest restaurant, yes, and the wine alone justifies it. Full write-up in our Borkonyha review.

Onyx Műhely: The Other Green Star

Worth knowing about if sustainability is your filter: Onyx reopened in March 2025 as Onyx Műhely with a new concept and carries a Michelin Green Star, alongside Salt. Its plant-based offer is not as clearly documented as the restaurants above, so treat it as a call-ahead rather than a booking, but it belongs in the conversation about sustainability-led fine dining in this city.

Booking Rules That Actually Matter

• Declare vegetarian or vegan at the moment you book. Not in the notes field as an afterthought, not on arrival. Salt builds you a separate menu. Rumour states outright that it cannot accommodate the request on site. Babel and Costes Downtown need the heads-up to prep. This is the single most common way people ruin their own evening.
• Late cancellations cost real money. Salt charges the full menu price per person inside 48 hours. Rumour charges 40,000 HUF per person inside 24 hours, including if you just shrink the party. Babel charges the full menu price inside 24 hours. Every one of them takes card details at booking.
• Service is 15% on top, everywhere. Stand goes to 20% if you request a VAT invoice. Budget for it: on a 69,500 HUF menu that is another 10,425 HUF per head before you have ordered a drink.
• Pairings can double the bill. Salt’s Prestige wine pairing is 90,000 HUF against a 69,500 HUF menu. The non-alcoholic pairings are not a consolation prize either: Salt’s homemade juice pairing at 26,000 HUF and Babel’s at 23,000 HUF are properly built, and several of them are better matched to vegetable-forward food than the wine is.
• Dress smart casual and stop worrying. Rumour says explicitly that it has no dress code. Nowhere on this list requires a jacket. Collared shirt or a decent dress, closed shoes, done.
• Book weeks out for weekends. Stand and Salt are the hardest tables. Stand also closes August 2 to 18, 2026 for its summer holiday.

The Verdict

Budapest is a better city for plant-based fine dining than its reputation suggests, and it got there fast. Five kitchens run dedicated menus, two of them fully vegan at 13 and 14 courses, and one of the best of them costs less than 20,000 HUF.

If you want the ranking in one line: Tati for value and for actual Hungarian food done without meat, Babel for the best vegan cooking at a starred restaurant, Salt if sustainability and fermentation are the point, Costes Downtown for the cheapest starred vegan menu and a genuinely brilliant lunch deal, and Stand only if the two stars are the specific thing you are buying.

If you are vegan, cross Stand and Rumour off before you start looking. Both are clear about it in writing, and finding out at the table is an expensive way to learn. For the wider view of the city’s starred scene, including the non-vegetarian angle, see our Budapest Michelin reality check, or browse the rest of the food and restaurants guides.