New Haven, CT
For Vegan in New Haven, the local food press points to Claire's Corner Copia, Ninth Square Market Too Caribbean Style, and Bella Casa Vegana. Picks from New Haven Independent and CTbites, updated July 2026.
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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in New Haven Independent, CTbites, and Daily Nutmeg. Updated July 2026.
Claire's Corner Copia · Downtown
A Chapel Street landmark that Claire Criscuolo and her late husband Frank opened in 1975, expanding its vegan cooking over the decades while keeping the nationally-shipped Lithuanian coffee cake. New Haven Independent covered its fiftieth-anniversary celebration in 2025, with citations from city, state, and federal officials, and CTbites' 2026 guide calls it a fifty-year family-owned institution serving vegetarian and vegan comfort food. Order the Lithuanian coffee cake alongside whatever vegan special is on.
Ninth Square Market Too Caribbean Style · Ninth Square
A Ninth Square Caribbean-vegan kitchen from Elisha Hazel, a New Haven native and nutritionist, and Qulen Wright, born in Jamaica and vegan for over two decades. Daily Nutmeg covered the hot bar of jerk tofu, mac and cheeze, and curried chickpeas, and New Haven Independent followed Wright inventing buffalo mushroom wings, breaded and fried Portobello in a tomato-chili sauce. Order the jerk tofu with its grill marks, or the buffalo mushroom wings.
Bella Casa Vegana · Downtown
An all-vegan take on Italian-American comfort food downtown near I-91. CTbites' 2026 vegetarian and vegan guide runs down the menu: buffalo wings and garlic knots, pizzas and calzones, pasta, and subs of vegan chicken parm and vegan sausage and pepper, plus vegan desserts. Order the vegan chicken parm sub, or a combo of buffalo wings and garlic knots.
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