Best Vegan Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat, and Pastries in the UK
Start your morning right with a flaky vegan croissant or a buttery plant-based Danish, pain au chocolat, or cruffin with your oat latte. Visit one of the growing number of coffee shops and bakeries now offering these dairy-free pastries. Making choices that help animals and our planet has never been tastier!
Here are our picks of some of the best vegan pastries to buy in the UK today.
Alex Gooch
Cardiff
Pop down to this fully vegan artisan bakery in Cardiff to enjoy croissants, pastries, cakes, and handmade bread. The Berry Cruffin is divine. Alex Gooch’s bakery in Monmouth supplies vegan pastries to numerous cafés in South Wales and the West of England.
Caffè Nero
Nationwide
Bite into Caffè Nero’s Raspberry Croissant for a morning pick-me-up. A golden, flaky pastry filled with sweet raspberry jam, topped with a raspberry sugar glaze. Nero’s Plant Based Apple Crumble & Custard Tart is a PETA 2025 Vegan Food Awards winner.
Benugo
London
Too tired to go out for breakfast? If you live in London, you can order in the goods directly from Benugo. The vegan pastries box has six items: Spelt and quinoa croissants, orange and hazelnut crowns, and raspberry-filled croissants. You can also order a whole box of vegan cinnamon rolls.
Coughlan’s Bakery
South of England
All the croissants are vegan at Coughlan’s Bakery! The Almond Croissant is a classic. The bakeries have a wide range of plant-based pastries, and other sweet treats like cakes, doughnuts, and biscuits. The Ranga Yum Yum Chocolate and Biscoff Pastry is a PETA 2025 Vegan Food Awards winner.
IKEA
Nationwide
The croissants at IKEA restaurants are delicious, affordable, and plant-based. Try it, then stay for lunch – IKEA’s cafés have a wide range of vegan options including hotdogs and plant balls. This is all part of the company’s inspiring goal to help people eat more plant-based food.
Lovely Rita’s Bakehouse
Sheffield
This fully vegan café was a PETA 2023 Vegan Food Awards winner for its Pistachio Croissant. Its bakers are always creating innovative new sweet and savoury pastries to delight their customers. We love this zesty Key Lime Pie Croissant
Pret A Manger
Nationwide
Pret’s Very Berry Croissant has been available in stores since Veganuary 2020. A five-berry jam fills an open croissant base, all topped with sugar crystals.
TheDorkyFrench
Glasgow
This bakery specialises in viennoiserie pastries like croissants, pain au chocolat, twists, rolls and everything made from buttery, flaky, and fully plant-based pastry goodness. Why not try a savoury treat like the Cheezy Potato and Leek Danish pastry?
Vatisserie
Milton Keynes
Artisan plant-based pastries are cooked in small batches in Milton Keynes, and are delivered to grateful customers nationwide. The mixed vegan pastry box has all the right treats inside. Vatisserie have also just opened a bakery in Newport Pagnell.
Tell Your Local Café to Go Vegan!
Can’t see plant-based croissants and pastries at your favourite café? Help cows, advance vegan options, and save the environment by asking the shop to please order these in stock for everyone to enjoy.
Embrace Plant-Based Eating
Ready to go vegan? Take PETA’s January Vegan Challenge to make your New Year’s resolutions count!
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For more plant-based food inspiration, check out the PETA 2025 Vegan Food Award winners:
Vegan Food Awards
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