17 Denver restaurants with more than two vegetarian entrées

Here are 16 Denver restaurants that either offer good options for both carnivores and herbivores.
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Barbecue and buffalo seitan at City O' City. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

You've been there before: You're making dinner plans with a group of friends, some of you are vegetarian and some of you are not, and you're trying to remember which restaurants offer more than a couple options for the veggie crowd.

Well, we're here to help, because nothing is more maddening than searching through a dozen menus and reciting options out loud until you find something you can all agree upon.

Here are 17 Denver restaurants that either offer good options for both carnivores and herbivores, including the all-veggie joints (because maybe you or your friends are not the type of meat eaters who absolutely must eat meat at a meal). See more about the all-vegetarian Denver restaurants places here.

(Got one you'd add? Tell me: [email protected].)

Aloy Modern Thai

aloymodernthai.com
2134 Larimer St.
303-379-9759

You could throw pretty much any Thai restaurant in here, so we picked this big, fun, centrally located one to represent them as a category. You can get any of the curry, noodle, wok fry and fried rice dishes with tofu.

Beet Box

beetboxdenver.com
1030 E. 22nd Ave.
303-861-0017

This place does vegan sandwiches and pastries. Go crazy.

City O’ City

cityocitydenver.com
206 E. 13th Ave.
303-831-6443

Huge vegetarian menu with plenty of vegan options, including sandwiches, pizza, pasta, barbecue, tacos, comfort food and Asian food.

City O' City on Sherman Street and 13th Avenue (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Crave Real Burgers

craverealburgers.com
1550 Blake St.
303-534-5878

I know what you’re thinking, but you can substitute a black bean soy patty for any burger on the menu.

Govinda’s Garden

govindasdenver.com
1400 Cherry Street, Denver
303-333-4000

This vegetarian and vegan spot has a regularly changing menu.

Handy Diner

facebook.com/handydiner
2958 Downing St.
619-730-5264

It’s “vegan comfort food,” so just image a regular diner menu, but vegan.

Las Margs

facebook.com/lasmargstavern
1521 N. Marion St.
720-361-2137

This little Mexican spot has vegetarian options including tacos, rellenos and enchiladas.

Las Margs on Marion Street near Colfax Avenue. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Mercury Café

mercurycafe.com
2199 California St.
303-294-9281

Super-charming café for when one of you wants ham and cheese potatoes and the other wants grilled tempeh with black bean sauce and quinoa.

Mercury Cafe. (Chloe Aiello/Denverite)
Mezcal

mezcalcolorado.com
3230 E. Colfax Ave.
303-322-5219

This Bluebird District Mexican restaurant (perfect for pre-show fueling) offers veggie options for their fajitas, enchiladas, burritos, tamales and tacos.

New Saigon

newsaigon.com
630 S. Federal Blvd.
303-936-4954

The massive menu at this Federal Boulevard Staple offers 12 tofu variation of the standard entrees.

Sputnik

sputnikdenver.com
3 S. Broadway
720-570-4503

Another good pre- or post-show spot, serving veggie options like the Israeli falafel and it’s top-notch grilled cheese (seriously) next door to the Hi-Dive.

The Ethiopian Restaurant

yelp.com/menu/ethiopian-restaurant-denver
2816 E. Colfax Ave.
303-322-5939

They make it easy and throw all 14 veggie options in their own section of the menu.

Trattoria Stella

trattoriastella.squarespace.com
3201 E. Colfax Ave.
303-320-8635
3470 W. 32nd Ave.
303-458-1128

Both locations have a couple veggie pasta dishes. My personal favorite is the truffle asparagus spaghetti: asparagus, arugula, toasted pine nuts, mushrooms and truffle oil over egg spaghetti.

True Food Kitchen

truefoodkitchen.com
2800 E. 2nd Ave., Suite 101
720-5097661

Technically there’s only one veggie entree, the spaghetti squash casserole, but with creative veggie pizza and bowl options (butternut squash pizza with smoked onion, organic kale, vegan almond ricotta and dried cranberry, anyone?) we’ll count it.

Vital Root

vitalrootdenver.com
3915 Tennyson St., Denver
303-474-4131

The all-veggie sister restaurant of Root Down, which only has one veggie entree right now, opened on Tennyson fairly recently.

WaterCourse Foods

watercoursefoods.com
837 E. 17th Ave.
303-832-7313

Another "vegan comfort food" spot, but as you probably know, this is more upscale than a diner.

WaterCourse Foods on 17th Avenue at Emerson Street. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Yard House

yardhouse.com
1555 Court Place
303-572-9273

The gardein portion of the menu takes 13 of the tasty meat-based dishes and swaps in this soy-based chicken substitute.

Obviously, this is not a complete list of every restaurant in Denver that offers more than two vegetarian entrées. If you'd like to tip us off to a particularly good one we've missed, send it to [email protected].

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