Vegan pizza in Dublin used to mean a sad cheeseless margherita and an apologetic look from a server. That is over. Two of the city's most-loved pizzerias now run dedicated vegan pizzas — one with a Happy Pear pesto base, one with house-made cashew ricotta — and a long list of mainstream pizza kitchens stock vegan cheese and a vegan-friendly crust by default. This guide is a working pick of where to actually go for vegan pizza in Dublin in 2026, plus what to ask for at the rest.

What's changed in Dublin's vegan pizza scene

  • House-made vegan cheese (cashew ricotta, almond mozzarella) has replaced one-size-fits-all factory blocks at most independent pizzerias.
  • Beyond and Linda McCartney plant-meats are now standard topping options at a long list of takeaway-style pizza kitchens.
  • Several Italian-style restaurants will quietly do a vegan pizza on request — even when it is not on the printed menu — using vegan dough and stripped Margherita toppings.
  • Ask about dough as well as toppings: most pizzerias use vegan dough by default, but a small minority use butter, milk or honey in the mix. Confirm before you order.

The two essentials

1. PI Pizzas (South Great George's Street)

Area: Dublin 2 — 73–83 South Great George's Street | Style: Modern wood-fired Neapolitan, 72-hour proven dough | Price Range: €€

PI is consistently named among Dublin's best pizza restaurants and runs a dedicated vegan pizza featuring Happy Pear pesto. The kitchen makes its dough fresh daily from "00" Naples flour and proves it for 72 hours, which gives that characteristic chewy-and-crackling crust. Vegan options sit alongside the regular menu rather than as a side note. They also stock vegan sea-salt ice cream as a dessert option.

Order: The Happy Pear pesto vegan pizza, with the vegan sea-salt ice cream to finish.

Note: PI's menu rotates — confirm the current vegan pizza of the day with staff if you are travelling for it.

2. DiFontaine's Pizzeria (Parliament Street)

Area: Dublin 2 — 22 Parliament Street, Temple Bar | Style: Authentic New York 20" pies + by-the-slice | Price Range: €

DiFontaine's is the Parliament Street New-York-style pizzeria — they sell 20-inch pies and slices, and they have leant into vegan in a serious way. The kitchen specialises in vegan pizzas and calzones, including a signature vegan pizza built on house-made cashew ricotta with a Follow Your Heart blend of mozzarella and parmesan. Lovin Dublin and several local food press outlets have repeatedly highlighted the vegan pie. Calzones take about 15 minutes longer to make — order early if you want one.

Order: The cashew-ricotta signature vegan pizza by the slice, or the full vegan pie for two.

Hours: Mon–Thu 11:30–22:00, Fri–Sat 11:30–23:00, Sun 11:30–22:00.

Casual / takeaway / chain — what to ask for

Outside the two anchors above, several mainstream Dublin pizza spots will reliably make a vegan pizza if you ask. Generic but useful asks:

Italian sit-down restaurants — the on-request vegan pizza

Many of Dublin's mainstream Italian sit-down restaurants will quietly produce a serious vegan pizza on request, even when the printed menu shows none. The order is:

This is a Marinara-with-extras and it is genuinely excellent at most decent Italian kitchens — better, in many cases, than a heavily-veganised supermarket pie.

What about delivery?

For delivery, your most reliable single Dublin choice is DiFontaine's — they deliver across the city centre and the vegan pies travel well in their large boxes. PI Pizzas is takeaway/delivery-friendly across Dublin 2. The bigger national-chain delivery apps now flag vegan-friendly pizza filters; sense-check by reading the actual restaurant page rather than trusting a flag, because aggregator metadata is often stale.

Vegan dessert pairing — Dublin

Both PI (vegan sea-salt ice cream) and DiFontaine's (occasional vegan dessert specials) handle dessert in-house. If you want a longer post-pizza walk:

Planning a vegan pizza night out

Suggested vegan pizza evening (Friday or Saturday)

  • 18:00: Aperitivo at a Dublin 2 wine bar — most stock at least one vegan-friendly natural wine.
  • 19:30: Pizza — book PI on South Great George's Street, or walk into DiFontaine's on Parliament Street.
  • 21:00: Vegan ice-cream stop, or coffee + cake at Cornucopia on Wicklow Street.
  • 22:00: Onwards into the South William / Drury / Temple Bar evening.

What this guide is and is not

Every venue above was open and trading at the time we last verified it (April 2026). Pizza menus rotate — specific named pizzas are illustrative of what each kitchen has run, not a guarantee of what is on tonight's board. If a venue closes or makes a major menu change, flag it via the listing form and we will update the page.