12 Best Vegetarian restaurants in Mazatlan - Where to dine and what to order

Vegetarian dining in Mazatlán
12 Recommended restaurants for vegetarians in Mazatlan

Historically, it has not been entirely easy to be a vegetarian anywhere in Mexico, and Mazatlan is no exception to this generalization.

Obviously, if you are a Pescetarian you're home free: you've got some of the best seafood on the planet -- bien provecho!

If, however, you keep to stricter vegetarian practice, things are a bit more challenging because meat -- and meat-derived ingredients like pork or beef-based lard -- are used in most traditional Mexican meals and foods.

Cuisine in Mexico -- and in Mazatlan -- is evolving rapidly, and there is lots of good news for vegetarians in Mazatlan.

• Without presuming to get into the complicated details of the many eating practices that fall under the general term "vegetarianism", many popular Mexican foods and meals can, at least in theory, be prepared without meat.

• Some simple examples of traditional Mexican foods that can be vegetarian dining choices in Mazatlan -- whether at street food carts or in restaurants -- are burritos (bean); quesadillas (cheese); papas locas (without the meat part of the filling); and torta sandwiches (again, without the meat part of the filling).

• Mazatlan street food can actually be used to assemble healthy, filling and inexpensive meals that meet most vegetarians' standards. Check out our street food page and imagine yourself eating vegetarian burritos, gorditas, quesadillas, papas locas, tortas and tamales!

• Fruit stands and juice carts offer a beautiful variety of completely meat-free frutarian dining options -- and pretty much any flavor of vegetarian can allow themselves to have a slammin' Mazatlan Churro for dessert!

• Juice Bars serve upscale versions of the fresh juices available from street carts and one, Pura Vida, has a number of more substantial vegetarian dining options.

• Vegetarian pizza cravings can be easily and rapidly satisfied in Mazatlan! Beyond the obvious often familiar pizza franchise choices, sophisticated gourmet pizzerias like La Mona Pizzeria Cantina (located in the Centro Historico and at Marina Mazatlan, with very frequently recommended salads) know how to deliver powerful vegetarian pizza flavor!

• Sushi bars are very common throughout Mazatlan, and are often good places for vegetarians to dine. Mexican sushi is different from what you are used to from home -- for some inexplicable reason cream cheese is a common ingredient in Mexican sushi -- but if you ask for vegetarian / no-cream-cheese versions of the rolls you're likely to be happy with your meal.

Are there vegetarian restaurants
in Mazatlán?

Mazatlan vegetarian restaurant information

Mazatlan does not have purely vegetarian restaurants like American and Canadian vegetarians are used to in urban centers.

That said, many Mazatlan restaurants offer vegetarian dishes, and the awareness of vegetarian dining and food preparation is substantial, so most of our better restaurants are able to prepare delicious vegetarian variations on many of their signature recipes.

These 12 top rated restaurants serve delicious vegetarian dishes and are sensitive to vegetarian food preparation of their regular menu items.

Angelina's Kitchen (Centro Historico)