The best places in Kiel for a vegan breakfast

Café Hilda

Café Hilda is the very definition of vegan breakfast Kiel: in-house-roasted specialty coffee from the Kopiton roastery meets fresh wood-fired breads, sweet and savoury spreads plus a rotating selection of gluten-free and vegan cakes. Thanks to its large terrace, Hilda is ideal for a relaxed brunch right in the Old Town.

On the menu: wood-oven slices with hummus, chia-vanilla pudding, Bircher muesli, hearty porridge with fresh fruit or a moist banana bread with peanut butter. Just add an oat-milk flat white or house iced tea and you’ve got the perfect vegan breakfast.

Café Blattgold

Café Blattgold was Kiel’s first fully vegan restaurant and remains an institution for anyone serious about vegan breakfast Kiel. The menu focuses on creative burger builds – from Beyond Meat patties to Redefine “bacon” fresh off a 3-D printer – and spoils sweet-toothed guests with colourful cakes, muffins and other house-made desserts.

For breakfast you can tuck into oven-warm sandwiches, juicy breakfast burgers or a serving of vegan “pulled pork”. Follow it with a slice of chocolate-peanut cake – pure soul food!
Its location on buzzing Holtenauer Straße makes the café a perfect pit-stop after a spot of shopping.

Café Resonanz

Charming Café Resonanz is undoubtedly one of Kiel’s favourite addresses for anyone who takes vegan breakfast Kiel seriously. Bread, cakes and cookies are baked mainly with regional spelt flour and are often even gluten-free. In summer the leafy rose garden out back turns Resonanz into a real feel-good spot.

A crowd-pleaser is the Dutch breakfast – a lavish spread of cashew cream, granola, forest-fruit compote, fruit salad, house-made jam, caramel biscuit spread, vegan cream cheese, chocolate drops, banana bread & peanut butter plus a fresh roll from Bornhorster Hof. Pair it with the fragrant Oriental coffee with cardamom or the spicy Masala India blend of cinnamon, orange and cayenne.

mmhio – Organic & Regional

Fancy a sustainable, green vegan breakfast Kiel? Head to mmhio. This modern, cosy café serves exclusively vegetarian & vegan dishes in 100 % organic quality. Ingredients are sourced regionally wherever possible, and the team is committed to eco-packaging, green electricity and e-mobility.

Early birds can order breakfast until 11 a.m.: house-made granola with soy yoghurt or fresh open sandwiches with a seasonal spread. After that it’s over to savoury plates – such as green Thai curry (asparagus, rainbow veg, coriander & rice) or the mediterranean lentil salad with rosemary potatoes and lemon-cucumber dip.

das retro.

das retro. is a café, bar and cinema lounge in one and is also among the top addresses for vegan breakfast Kiel. Two explicitly vegan breakfast sets – Suchsdorf and Gaarden – tick every box: mini pancakes with peanut-caramel spread, moist tofu-veg scramble, plus soy yoghurt with house-roasted granola. Need more fuel? Go for the “Strong start” plate with scramble, veggie spread, onion chutney and fruit salad.