Vegan Fast Food Options in Australia

Tex-Mex/Mexican Food

Zambreros

I have been a frequent visitor of Zambreros ever since they first opened in Canberra. Nowadays you can find them all over Australia. Zambreros have 2 options for vegans which are detailed on their menu with markings. These options can be made into burritos, bowls or nachos. You can order the Classic Veg – Free Guacamole, Salads, Rice, Beans and Sauce or a Spiced Cauliflower with Rice, Beans, Salads and Sauce (but you have to pay for the Guacamole). Be sure to say NO sour cream and NO cheese. Vegan cheese can be added to any order at a surcharge of $1, or $2 for nachos. Salad choices are red onion, lettuce, tomato, jalapeños, lime and corn. The vegan sauces are trezigo, BBQ, verde, and red chilli. Other extras include black rice, corn chips and salsa IQ. For a side snack, Zambreros also serve corn chips and Guacamole.

 

My Order – Spiced Cauliflower Burrito with double beans and double white rice, guacamole and crushed corn corn chips, lettuce, onion, tomato and corn, with trezigo sauce.

Fun Fact – Zambreros are also a social enterprise that have a plate for plate initiative. This means for every burrito or bowl purchased a meal is donated to someone in need.

Mad Mex

Mad Mex have nachos and burritos that can easily be made vegan…with vegan cheese! You can order them with black beans, rice and a ‘Tofu veggie rancheros‘ filling with salsas. The Veggie Tofu filling is sautéed eggplant, mushrooms, zucchini and organic tofu, and also comes with free guacamole. They have 5 salsa options which are all vegan ranging in spice. Be sure to ask for no traditional cheese and no sour cream. Vegan cheese can be added to your meal at a surcharge.

 

My Order – Veggie Tofu Burrito, guacamole, rice, beans, pico de gallo and corn salsa.

Fun Fact – They do 1kg burrito eating contests.

Guzman Y Gomez

Guzman have nachos, burrito bowls, tacos and burritos that can be made vegan. Their fries are also vegan as are their corn chips which can be ordered with guacamole. Their main dishes can be ordered with black beans and rice, sautéed vegetable filling (mushroom, capsicum, onion with free guacamole!), salads and salsas. Be sure to ask for no cheese and no sour cream. Also- the Guzman Y Gomez Chimi Mayo is completely vegan!

 

My Order – ‘Veggie’ Nachos with added rice and chimi mayo. No cheese.

Fun Fact – You can get a FREE burrito with your first purchase ordered on their app.

Beach Burrito

Beach burrito has vegan options for their tacos, burritos, nachos and loaded fries. Their vege nachos and fries are served with black beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, and salsa. Ask for no cheese or sour cream. The tacos and burritos have a chickpea fritter and a tofu and vege option. Ask for no cheese or sour cream in the tofu vege.

 

My Order – I be difficult and ask for half nachos half fries hehe, with guacamole, black beans, pico de gallo and tomato corn salsa.

Fun Fact – $3 taco Tuesday!

Salsas

Salsas have 3 staple vegan options. The ‘Mucho Veg Burrito’ (coriander & lime rice, onion & capsicum, zucchini & broccoli, corn salsa, black beans, guacamole & chipotle salsa) and the ‘Mucho Veg Bowl’ (coriander & lime rice, onion & capsicum, zucchini & broccoli, corn salsa, black beans, guacamole & chipotle salsa served with corn chips). They also have a ‘Mexicali Salad’ (shaved zucchini, pickled veg, red cabbage, lettuce, broccoli & zucchini, corn salsa, onions & capsicums, salsa fresca, guacamole & ranchero salsa) and the corn chips and guac are vegan. You can also veganised the ‘Holy Guac Nachos’ (corn chips, salsa fresca, black beans, guacamole & tomatillo salsa) if you ask for NO cheese and NO sour cream.

 

Warning – The hot chips are not vegan they have milk powder in the seasoning.

Pizza

 

Crust

Crust have an amazing vegan pizza options and use vegan cheese! Their ‘Smokey BBQ Pulled Jackfruit’ pizza (bbq jackfruit, spanish onions and roasted capsicum on a tomato base, garnished with vegan Aioli, parsley, freshly chopped chilli and vegan cheese) and their ‘Mediterranean Romesco’ pizza (grilled zucchini, roasted capsicum, cherry tomatoes, Spanish onion, special sauce and vegan cheese). They also have vegan ‘Herb and Garlic Sourdough’ (fancy garlic bread) and a ‘Middle Eastern Felafel Salad Bowl’ (traditional oven roasted falafels, tabouli, harissa hummus, cherry tomatoes and rocket dressed with fresh lemon).

 

My Order – BBQ Pulled Jackfruit pizza.

Pizza Capers

Pizza Capers have three completly vegan pizzas. The ‘Vegan Tabasco Spiced Smashed Avo’ (smashed avocado, vegan cheese, charred corn and diced tomato lightly seasoned with garlic and green tabasco. finished with coriander and a lime wedge) the ‘Sweet Potato Vegan Lovers’ (sweet potato, button mushrooms, crushed garlic, pizza sauce and vegan cheese. garnished with rosemary, shallots and salt flakes. finished with sweet chilli sauce) and their new ‘Vegan Satay Tofu’ (Luscious satay marinated tofu, shallots, onion, red capsicum & vegan cheese on a light olive oil base. Finished with satay sauce, cucumber & carrot slaw & cashews). You can also order 3 types of vegan calzones, the classic garlic, the sweet chilli and the garlic rosemary. They also have a ‘Vegetarian’ pizza that you could order with no parmesan cheese and no dairy cheese.

 

My Order – Sweet Potato Vegan Lovers pizza.

Dominos

Dominos have 4 pizzas that can be altered vegan, and 3 that are vegan by default. Their ‘Vegorama’ (mushrooms, sweet cherry peppers, baby spinach, capsicum, fresh tomato and red onion topped with oregano) ask for NO feta and no mozzarella cheese, The ‘Garden Veg’ (sweet cherry peppers, fresh red onion, capsicum, spinach, cherry tomatoes sprinkled with fresh spring onion) ask for NO camembert cheese and no mozzarella cheese, The ‘Avocado Veg’ (avocado, fire roasted peppers, mushrooms, red onion, capsicum, olives topped with spring onion) ask for NO mozzarella cheese and finally their value range ‘Spicy Veg Trio’ (baby spinach, fresh tomato, red onion topped with chilli flakes) ask for no mozzarella cheese. The ‘Spicy Veg Trio’ and ‘Avocado Veg’ alongside a ‘Vegan Margarita’ can be ordered default vegan with vegan cheese. You may also add the vegan cheese to the customised vegetarian pizzas at a surcharge of $2.95. Dominos traditional garlic bread is also vegan and you have the option of ordering a vegan cheese garlic bread too. Their chips can be vegan if you ask for no salt.

 

My Order – Vegorama with no mozzarella and no feta, with added pineapple, olives and vegan cheese. Sometimes ill also order a side of vegan cheese garlic bread.

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut have 3 vegetarian pizzas that can be veganised.  The ‘Veggie Supreme’  (kalamata olives, fetta, diced tomato, mushrooms, red & green capsicum, onion, garlic) order with NO mozzarella cheese or fetta, The ‘Veggie Sensation’ (mushrooms, pineapple, tomato, green capsicum, olives, onion, oregano) order with NO mozzerella cheese, cheddar or aioli drizzel, and the ‘Hot & Spicy Veggie’ (jalapeños, pineapple, red & green capsicum, onion & chilli flakes) order with NO cheese or aioli drizzel. You can also create your own on their website. Their vegan sides are garlic bread and hot chips (ask for no chicken salt on chips). 

Edit: As of 15/02/17 I have received email confirmation that Pizza Huts Tomato sauce is now vegan (previously contained milk), edits have been made to reflect this change.

*picture displays pizzas with cheese and aioli, order without*

 

Dessert Places

San Churro

San churro has great vegan options and a really handy allergy menu which you can ask for when you order. The allergy menu covers all the vegan options clearly marked. Alternately you may see their full vegan menu online here. Their churros are vegan and their dark chocolate dipping sauce is vegan. They can also make many of their drinks vegan such as their ‘Dark Couverture Hot Chocolate’ and their ‘Spanish Hot Chocolate’ vegan if ordered with soy or almond milk.  Their Mango Sorbet, Salted Caramel and Honeycomb ice creams are also vegan which means you can order a vegan churro sundae with drizzled dark chocolate sauce and banana strawberry decoration. Yassss.

 

Recently San Churro have even come out with a handmade churro bowl featuring vegan ice-cream fruit and chocolate called the ‘Happy Vegan’. San Churro also have a ‘Cookie Butter Filled Churro’ that is vegan and amazing! Another great new item is the ‘Choc Caramel Craving Shake’ with blended chocolate, and honeycomb and salted caramel ice-cream. 

 

My Order – Spanish Hot Chocolate with Soy milk, a Churros for two with dark chocolate dipping sauce and cinnamon sugar. If I’m feeling like spending some dough I may even get the Cookie butter churro too.

Doughnut Time

The donut time menu is always changing – but they always have at least 4 vegan donuts that are clearly labeled. These creations are always fun and whimsical!

 

My Order – The Liam Hemsworthy (red velvet doughnut with a vegan cookies & cream frosting, crushed choc ripple biscuits and a vegan chocolate glaze drizzle!)

Fun Fact –  Liam is actually vegan!

Everything Else

Gozleme King

Gozleme King Turkish Cuisine have an abundance of vegan options. Including 4 staple vegan Gozleme options derived from their vegetarian mains created with Vegan Soy Cheese. This Gozlemes are completely customisable, with the option to add or subtract vegetables to suit your preference at request. (With a fee). Vegan Gozlemes are as follows: Vegan Cheese & Spinach, Vegan Cheese, Mushroom & Spinach, Vegan Cheese & Marinated Chilli Potato, and the Veggie Plus including Vegan Cheese, Capsicum, Olives, Spinach, Mushrooms.  All Gozlemes are served with a lemon wedge for dressing. Gozleme King also serve vegan Turkish delight and occasionally have vegan Baklava.

My Order – A ‘Veggie Plus’ Gozleme with Added Potato and Vegan Cheese.  This will take you back $14 with the $1 Vegan Cheese and the $2 added Potato. I also loved the Spiced Pumpkin Baklava.

Subway

Subway have 2 vegan options ‘Veggie Delight’ and ‘Veggie Patty’, they also do both options in salad form. Veggie Delights is just a sandwich with your choice of sauce and salad and Veggie Patty is the same but with a veggie paddy. Ask for no cheese. (Veggie patty is not vegan in USA subway but it is in Australia). Vegan sauces at Subway include; sweet onion dressing, zesty italian dressing, deli brown mustard dressing, yellow mustard dressing, marinara (tomato) sauce, BBQ sauce, sweet chilli sauce. The bread options are; white bread, wheat bread, multigrain bread, white wrap, and 9 Grain bread.

 

My Order –  Footlong Veggie Patty with no cheese on white bread, toasted, with lettuce, tomato, carrot, onion, olives, spinach, cucumber and marinara (tomato) sauce and sweet chilli sauce, with salt and pepper. Added avocado if I’m feeling fancy.

Lord Of The Fries

Lord of the fries is the vegan holy grail for fast food. Its located all across Australia (except Canberra) and has 9 stores in Melbourne alone. Lord of the fries is completely vegan. They have burgers with soy meats, hot dogs with loaded vegan cheese, thick shakes, chicken nuggets, onion rings and their famous loaded fries. 

 

They have burgers with soy meats such as vegan bacon, chick’n, and beef as well as the classic veggie patty. These burgers faux meat looks identical to the real thing. Vegan cheese is available on everything, including the fries. They have 4 types of fries too, shoe string, classic, sweet potato and chunky. Lord of the fries would make the perfect sloppy hangover meal!

 

My Order – ‘Vegan Parma’ burger (veg chick’n patty,  napoli sauce, vegan cheese and soy bacon topped with diced onion and ketchup) alongside a vegan cookies and cream thick shake and a side of small shoestring fries.

Grilld

Grilld have a build your own burger option but they have 5 veg burgers that can be made vegan; ‘Veggie Vitality’ burger which is default vegan (beetroot, sweet potato, spinach & quinoa veggie pattie with avocado, charred pineapple, carrot & cos lettuce) the default vegan ‘Amazing Vegan Cheeseburger’ (Premium quality vegan “beef” patty with Dijon mustard, dill pickle, vegan cheese, Spanish onion, smoked sea salt, tomato sauce & vegan mayo) the default vegan ‘Hemp Therapea’ (Premium quality pea & hemp patty with avocado, cos lettuce, beetroot, fresh basil, smoked sea salt & tzatziki) the ‘Garden Goodness’ burger (premium quality veggie pattie with beetroot, avocado, salad) ask for NO mayo and no cheese, and the ‘Field of Dreams’ burger (grilled field mushroom, roasted peppers, salad) ask for NO pesto, cheese or mayo.

Grilld also have chips which are vegan and delicious. The chips come in three options, classic, zucchini and sweet potato. The tomato relish chip dip is vegan. To build your own burger you can choose from the following three buns; panini, gluten free and traditional. You then have all the salads and the above 3 burgers paddies as filling. The tomato relish, tomato sauce, satay sauce, dijon mustard, chilli relish, cranberry sauce and poppy splash dressing are vegan.

My Order – I build my own burger. I order two patties the ‘Garden Goodness’ veggie paddy and the ‘Field of Dreams’ mushroom paddy, with added pineapple, lettuce, tomato and onion. Alongside a cup of classic chips.

Fun Fact – Grilld have a ‘Local Matters’ community /charity donation program. Each time you purchase a burger you’ll receive a bottle cap to add to a charitys/local cause jar of your choosing. Once a jar is full, money is donated. Each Grilld store donates $500 a month.

Nandos

Nandos Regular and ‘Peri-Peri’ chips and Sweet Potato chips are vegan. You can also get the ‘Spicy Rice’ and corn on the cob, and marinated olives. For salads, the ‘Tabouli and Quinoa’ salad and the Regular side salad are vegan by default, and the ‘Superfuel’ salad can be vegan without the feta and optional chicken.

 

Warning – The ‘Veggie Pita’ and ‘Veggie Burger’ contain egg in Australia. These cannot be substituted. However, this week Nandos is rolling out a new secret Vegan burger…its hit a select few stores but hasn’t been officially advertised.

My Order – Spicy Rice and Peri Peri chips and a side of marinated olives.

Ali Baba

Ali Baba has plenty of great felafel options like ‘Veggie Felafel Kebab’ (veggie falafel, lettuce, tomato, onion & your choice of  sauce, wrapped in a lebanese bread) the ‘Felafel Plate’ (veggie falafels, persian rice, your choice of two dips, two salads, wrap bread and one sauce) and a ‘Felafel Snack pack’ (felafel, hot chips and a sauce). Their chips are vegan! The following sauce options are; tahini, mild chilli, hot chilli, lemon coriander, and hummus.

 

Healthy Fast Food

Thr1ve

Thrive changes their menu seasonally. They usually have at least 1 staple vegan option, but always have plenty of yummy veggie options to build your own. Their salad options in the past have been things such as; roasted pumpkin, lentil curry, turmeric cauliflower, pickled onion, avocado and pea smash, zucchini noodles and kaleslaw. You start by choosing a base (lettuce, spinach, rainbow slaw, brown rice and quinoa) then optionally add tofu, then continue on to choose veggies. My experience with thr1ve has been quite positive and their employees always easily accomodate a vegan salad. Th1ve also do great smoothies  and juices which you can order with almond, coconut or soy. Ask to remove honey and whey protein if required.

 

My Order – This constantly varies with their ever changing menu, but my salad always has their tasty avo and pea smash! I also love their ‘Salted Caramel’ smoothie without the honey and with coconut milk.

Sumo Salad

Sumo salad also do Build your own. Their ‘Deli Salad’ vegan choices are; kale & quinoa, oriental brown rice, pumpkin & chickpea, pumpkin & cous cous, seasonal greens, grains and greens, lentil & tabbouleh, super quinoa & brown rice, and falafel & couscous. Leafy Salads; chargrilled cauliflower and pumpkin. Hot Deli; asian hokkien noodle and kale, quinoa & vege soup. Dressings; balsamic vinaigrette, lemon juice, lemon parsley, lemon spiced (moroccan), olive oil, super clean paleo dressing, roasted garlic and seeded mustard vinaigrette. They also have fruit salad and two vegan porridges for breakfast. Availability of these options will vary from store to store.

 

Soul Origin

Soul origin have 3 vegan deli salad options which are quite nice combined; ‘Healthy Brown Rice’ (brown rice, carrot, celery, corn & sultanas, topped with cucumber and fresh capsicum, mixed with light sweet chili sauce dressing) ‘Bean Medley’ (mixed beans, carrot, celery & corn, garnished with fresh capsicum & lightly tossed in a seeded mustard dressing) and ‘Pumpkin Cous Cous’ (pumpkin, couscous, roast capsicum, sundried tomato & shallots, garnished with rocket).

 

My Order – Healthy brown rice, bean medley and pumpkin cous cous combined!

Oliver’s

Olivers serve healthy fast food all across Australian road trip pit stop locations. Their vegan items are plentiful and are clearly marked on their menu in store and on their website. Fort their hot food their vegan options are ‘Veggie Patch Pita Pocket’ a ‘Burrito Pita Pocket’, ‘Golden Rice Nuggets’ (chicken nugget alternative) ‘Veggie Korma Curry’, ‘Minestrone’ and ‘Pumpkin’ soup. Olivers also have vegan Sweet Potato fries, Roast Potato and a funny alternative ‘Steamed Green Beans’ and Edamame Beans’ which are lightly salted and served in a chip cup.

 

They also have a wide rang of vegan chips, drinks, deserts, pre made sandwiches, salads, and sushi for you to take back on the road. (They have pana chocolate!) Their vegan deserts are coconut yogurt muesli, and chia seed puddings. You can also order juices, and you have the option to build your own.

 

Fun Fact – Download the Olivers app and it can tell you where the closest Olivers pit stop is so you know when to pull over during long haul drives!

•  Note: ‘Mcdonalds’ fries and hash browns are vegan in Australia. They are not in the USA as they have beef tallow. I don’t personally support ‘Mcdonalds’ however I understand this may be helpful information to a vegan that needs to eat something with substance during a long road trip with little options! Its great Olivers are found in many locations now but not in far rural areas. The buns are vegan as are the salad filling options for their burgers. I have heard of many vegans ordering hash brown burgers before! (They do this by removing ingredients and then adding them). They also have garden salads and a side salad option in some Mcdonalds stores, and they are also vegan.

Well folks that completes the list. For my ‘Accidentally Vegan foods of Australia’ supermarket list with all sorts of vegan burgers, lollies and pantry staples click here!