Vegan Pizza! at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan
Tofu pasta at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan
gourmet vegan super salad at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan
Vegan-friendly
Lacto
American
Pizza
Indian
Organic
Juice bar
Delivery
Take-out
Caribbean
Fusion

Offers daily specials with a touch of India, plus salads and soups, sandwiches and wraps, fruit frappes, smoothies, juices, and vegan cakes. Pizza and pasta night on Friday. Est. 2002. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-3:30pm.

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17 Reviews

First Review by laveganguy

Avatar moonglane

moonglane

Points +127

Vegan
30 May 2023

Lovely place and good food

This is a place I can eat with close eyes. Good food, good service, very nice and good people. I used to go there to learned to practice Bhakti yoga and it’s amazing

Avatar AdamVitLunko

AdamVitLunko

Points +40

Vegan
12 Feb 2022

Great place

Low prices and delicious food

Avatar maltinej

maltinej

Points +2104

Vegan
07 Dec 2019

Best place to relax and eat some great food!

As stated before in another review, Puerto Rico is not vegan friendly AT ALL. So places like veggie garden are vegetarian and vegan secret hideouts where you can go and ask if the special is vegan and they won't look at you as if you have just spoken in an alien language. The menu is clearly labeled when something is vegan or not and the staff is extremely helpful and friendly. whenever I feel like i have had an extremely stressful and hard day (which happens a lot) i go to veggie garden to escape and eat some of the tastiest vegan food around.

Pros: excellent tasty food, friendly staff, peaceful setting

Cons: small, location

Avatar DamianSa

DamianSa

Points +147

Vegan
19 Jul 2019

Great place!

I was welcomed by a lovely smile from a young lady, she told me about the daily menu available. Price was affordable and the wonderful food was served almost instantly. Restaurant is small like we vegan like, warm welcome energy.

Pros: Great vegan food, fresh taste, good vibes. , Keep the food vibes.

Avatar nmerced

nmerced

Points +136

Vegan
05 Jun 2019

Solid vegan options.

The restaurant was a bit small and needed some work, but food was delicious. My granddaughters had a Greek salad and vegan burger. Both were good. I had the daily special, a stew with pasta. Very tasty.

Avatar derekmedina8

derekmedina8

Points +15

Vegetarian
26 Feb 2019

Haribol

Simply wonderful and outstanding !

Pros: Lots of wonderful vegetarian meals

Cons: Fairly well priced

Avatar okidata

okidata

Points +15

Vegetarian
07 Nov 2018

extremely expensive

Foos was regular and for what the serve it was too expensive.

Pros: good taste

Cons: exlenaive ans small.

Avatar LuisQ

LuisQ

Points +13

Vegetarian
09 Oct 2018

It is a good place and the food is delicious. The service is excellent too.

The food is delicious and the service is excellent.

Avatar WestSeattleLuke

WestSeattleLuke

Points +142

Herbivore
02 Jun 2018

Good food, slow service

We had a pizza and a pasta dish. Both vegan and delicious. I would definitely come again, but this is not a place to go if you are in a hurry. Everyone who worked there was very friendly, they just weren’t in a hurry, but neither were we so it worked out.

Pros: Lots of vegan options , Good prices compared to other “tourist” spots. , Friendly service

Cons: Slow service

Avatar DaKingSon

DaKingSon

Points +75

Vegan
15 Jun 2015

Back again and loving it!

It is a small place that can hold up to 18 people comfortably. The service may be a little slow on a busy day but we'll worth it. Food is excellent! I highly recommend comming down a trying the place. Vegan friendly!

Pros: They cater to their customers, food is excellent!

Cons: Small location, limited parking

Avatar veggieclaire

veggieclaire

Points +40

Vegan
14 Oct 2013

Great food

Great food, the vegan options are labeled which is always helpful. Many vegan wraps available.

Pros: vegan options are labeled

Avatar Ethan

Ethan

Points +221

Vegan
31 Mar 2012

Delicious Vegan Food with Friendly Service

We went to Veggie Garden on a Friday night which, apparently, is the "busy night" since they do their once-a-week "Pizza and Pasta Dinner" that night. It was overly crowded and they clearly were understaffed to handle the crowd. Sadly, we saw groups of customers, one after the other, walking away when confronted with the long wait.

That all said, the food was delicious. We went with the Pizza/Pasta Specials. We had the "ham" and pineapple pizza with a side of the pasta with mock-meat. The mock-meat was of a lesser quality than what we get in The States, but it was tasty, if texture-challenged. The pizza, made with Rice-Cheese, was spectacular. Thin-crust and a yummy tomato sauce.

We ate with a friend of ours who is an omnivore and he loved all of the dairy-based food he ate as well.

This is NOT located in Condado as the map on Happy Cow suggests. It was a 10-15 minute cab ride from the hotels in Condado beach, but well worth the trip.

Pros: Full Vegan Menu, Inexpensive, Delicious

Cons: Slow service, location

The Carrot Cake- a bit dense and rubbery (b/c it's made with applesauce) but healthy and delicious at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan

Vegan Pizza with 'ham', pineapple and rice cheese-- delicious! at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan

Avatar aradhakr

aradhakr

Points +150

Vegan
26 Feb 2012

Great vegetarian food in San Juan

I was at Veggie Garden in February 2012 and was blown away by good the food was. It's a small operation run by some Hare Krishna followers. Service was ok. Food was really good. It's actually a block away from another vegetarian place called "La Zanahoria," where the food (in my opinion) is not nearly as good as here. Would highly recommend Veggie Garden.

Pros: excellent food

Cons: expensive

Avatar bhenrich

bhenrich

Points +98

Vegetarian
14 Jul 2010

Fantastic!!

Puerto Rico is a vegetarians nightmare- very few vegetarian places and no veggie options at other places. I survived a couple days on rice & beans & steamed vegetables until I finally had enough time to find Veggie Garden. And finding Veggie Garden is challenging, even with GPS. Luckily it only takes one good place to keep from starving, and Veggie Garden is the place in PR. The owner, Nancy, is an absolutely lovely woman who seems like an old friend in minutes. I had the days special and I really don't know what it was other than it tasted Indian and had perfectly prepared curry tofu in it. It was not on the menu. It was very flavorful and available vegan or vegetarian. I also had a blended drink that was a mixture of multiple fruits and vegetables. Sorry I can't be more descriptive- the line was long and I don't speak much Spanish so I just got the special she was describing to other patrons.

Pros: Owner is very nice, Great food

Cons: Extremely difficult to find

Avatar vgarden

vgarden

Points +37

Vegetarian
Owner
18 Nov 2008

Delicious Healthy Lunch Everyday!

I work at Clinicas la Americas not far from Veggie Garden Cafe. And thank God! This is the best food ever. The Special of the Day is fantastico!!Generous portions and variety and ummmmm soo good and good for me too. My cholesterol dropped back to the"safe zone". I have more energy and feeling great now. Thank you Veggie Garden! A real blessing.

Pros: generous portions, menu offer great variety, many vegan opitons

Cons: parking

yoga group after vegan pizza feast! at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan

gourmet vegan super salad at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan

Vegan Pizza Bliss Every Friday Nite! at Govinda's Veggie Garden in San Juan

Avatar VeganPike

VeganPike

Points +100

Vegan
26 Nov 2007

A friendly, if whacked-out oasis in San Juan

We went on a Friday night, which is "pizza night" & they stay open till 11pm. Two vegans, two vegetarians. The owner was extremely friendly, and did her best to make us feel welcome. I have to say that aside from that, though, the service was not great- everyone just seemed REALLY spaced out- like how they kept bringing us 3 of everything- plates, water, etc, even though there were 4 of us... and how they forgot the cow cheese on the non-vegans' pizza (they ran out of fake cheese for us vegans, but substituted pesto, which was good). The pasta was fine, but nothing special, and the pizza crust was disappointing- like a pre-made pita-type of thing. But overall it's better than just about anything else you'll find in San Juan on a Friday night if you're veggie.

Pros: Veggie food- very rare in S.J.!!!, Tofu triangles are good, Easy access from Roosevelt train/M1 bus

Cons: Spaced-out service, O.T.T. Hari-Krishna atmosphere, A bit pricey

Avatar laveganguy

laveganguy

Points +30

Vegan
23 Mar 2007

awesome

Great food, incredibly nice family that runs it, good atmosphere, good karma.

Pros: food, staff, garden

Cons: difficult to find 1sttime, need more vegan items, no vegan deserts ;(

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