Himalaya Vegan & Organic Restaurant

This is not just the best vegan food in the upper east side, it’s the best vegan food in New York City. As a “health food vegan,” all I want is a restaurant serving high-quality ingredients that are well-seasoned without being fried in oil or loaded with salt. Sounds simple, but this is next to impossible to find even at supposedly healthy restaurants. They have a cool origin story with a Tibetan founder who became a monk and cooked macrobiotic food at a Buddhist monastery in India before working at a 5-star European hotel. The first and only other location of Himalaya Vegan is in Sacramento, California, and we were over the moon when they announced the opening of their second restaurant in New York. We visited on their opening day, and the food lived up to our high expectations. The menu

I had a delicious lunch today at this lovely new neighborhood restaurant. The menu changes daily and today I had a navy bean vegetable soup, followed by a plate of brown rice, french lentils with onion and ginger, baked red and green cabbage with zucchini, kabocha and ginger, collard and kale with leek shiitake mushroom sauce, and a mixed salad with basil, lemon and agave dressing. The place is calming, clean, and friendly. I will definitely be back.

We loved our dinner at Himalaya! This is now my favorite restaurant in NYC. The flavors were amazing and everything was cooked perfectly. We plan to become regulars 🙂

My husband isn’t vegan, I am. We both throughly enjoyed our meals and both said we want to go back! It’s nice to have healthy options for days you don’t want to cook.

Fantastic, fresh, delicious. So close to home, a variety of tasty vegetables with beautiful flavors. Just perfect. It's quiet in here now but this place is an absolute gem on the upper east side and it'll get busy! Free green tea and fresh cold water as you wait. We both love Himalaya so much!