Limerick is small, and that smallness is honest. The city does not have ten dedicated vegan restaurants the way Dublin does — but the venues it does have are long-standing, well run, and easy to find on foot from the city centre. This guide covers the three sit-down spots we send vegan visitors to first, plus the Saturday market that is the best vegan-grocery stop in Munster outside Cork. All four were trading and verified in April 2026.

Limerick at a glance for vegans

  • One long-established fully vegetarian/vegan kitchen on Cecil Street — the anchor of the local plant-based scene.
  • Two strong vegan-friendly cafés on Sarsfield Street and Catherine Street that fully label vegan options.
  • The Milk Market — a 170-year-old covered market — is the city's best vegan grocery experience, especially on Saturday.
  • Several venues that appear in older Limerick vegan lists have closed (see the note at the end). Check the live list, not Google's cached snippets.

Long-running vegetarian / vegan

1. The Grove Veggie Kitchen

Area: 11 Cecil Street, City Centre | Cuisine: Vegetarian and vegan, daily-changing menu | Price Range: €

The Grove has been running for over thirty years and is the obvious starting point. It is a small, family-run kitchen serving home-made vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and wheat-free mains, salads and desserts. The menu changes daily depending on what is in season; the salad selection is fairly constant and the cakes are a quiet local fixation. The Grove was already serving plant-forward food in Limerick when most Irish restaurants would not have known what a chickpea was — and that history is exactly what makes it the city's vegan anchor.

What to order: Whatever the daily vegan main is, plus a plate from the salad selection. Save room for a slice of cake.

Hours: Mon–Fri, 09:30–16:00. Closed weekends.

Phone: +353 61 410 084

Vegan-friendly cafés worth a sit-down

2. Hook & Ladder — Sarsfield Street

Area: 7 Sarsfield Street, V94 TN88, City Centre | Cuisine: Café / brunch with a labelled vegan and vegetarian section | Price Range: €€

Hook & Ladder is a Limerick institution — café, cookery school and lifestyle store under one roof. The Sarsfield Street site is the most central and is consistently rated among the city's best cafés. The kitchen labels vegan and vegetarian items clearly through breakfast and lunch and the team are confident with allergens, which makes it a useful pick for mixed groups.

What to order: The plant-based brunch plate or the daily vegan soup with sourdough.

Hours: Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00, Sat 08:00–19:00, Sun & bank holidays 09:00–17:00.

Phone: 061 415 332

3. Canteen

Area: 26 Catherine Street, City Centre | Cuisine: Modern café — vegetarian-friendly with vegan and gluten-free options | Price Range: €–€€

Canteen is a small, fast, healthy-leaning café running a tight breakfast / brunch / lunch operation on Catherine Street. Vegan options sit alongside vegetarian and gluten-free across the menu, and the kitchen is comfortable adapting dishes on request. Good for a quick weekday lunch when The Grove is full, or a coffee-and-cake stop after a city-centre walk.

What to order: Whatever vegan grain bowl, wrap or salad is on the daily board, plus an oat-milk coffee.

Phone: +353 85 215 3212

For shopping and self-catering

4. The Milk Market

Area: Cornmarket Row, City Centre | What it is: Covered food and craft market, trading since 1852 | Best day: Saturday Food & Craft Market (around 60 stalls + 15 shops)

The Milk Market is the best vegan grocery stop in Limerick and the obvious first port of call if you are self-catering or want to assemble a picnic before driving on through Munster. The Saturday market expands to roughly 60 stalls; expect organic fruit and vegetables, fresh-pressed juices, sourdough and other plant-based breads, and plenty of stalls happy to flag what is dairy-free or vegan. It also works as a low-stress lunch — many of the prepared-food stalls run vegan plates.

Tip: Go early. The best produce stalls run light by midday on a Saturday.

Cuisines to ask for off-menu

Like most regional Irish cities, Limerick has more vegan capacity than its dedicated-vegan restaurant count suggests — you just need to ask. Reliable categories in the city centre:

What's not on this list — and why

Closed or out-of-area listings to ignore

A few names show up on older Limerick vegan guides that we have removed for this 2026 list, because they are either closed or were never actually in Limerick:

  • Green Onion Café — permanently closed.
  • TGO Falafel Bar — Galway, not Limerick.
  • The Bean Tree — Galway, not Limerick.
  • Pizza Punks Limerick — does not exist; Pizza Punks operates in Belfast and several UK cities only.

If you spot any other dated listing on a third-party site, default to the venue's own website or social — opening status changes faster than aggregator data.

Planning a vegan day in Limerick

Suggested vegan day-out (any day of the week)

  • Breakfast / brunch: Hook & Ladder on Sarsfield Street, or Canteen on Catherine Street.
  • Mid-morning grocery / market: The Milk Market on Cornmarket Row (best on Saturday).
  • Lunch: The Grove Veggie Kitchen on Cecil Street — go before 13:30 to be safe.
  • Afternoon walk: Riverside walk along the Shannon to King John's Castle.
  • Dinner: Pick from a labelled vegan menu at one of the city's larger hotels or Indian restaurants — call ahead.

What this guide is and is not

Every venue above was open and trading at the time we last verified it (April 2026). We list specific dishes only where the kitchen has confirmed them publicly — menus rotate, so check before a special trip. If a venue closes or moves, contact us via the listing form and we will update the page.