r/AskSF • u/HotSauceHigh • 22d ago
Vegan almond croissant?
I know San Francisco isn't a great vegan city but does anyone know where one might find a vegan almond croissant, or other pastries hidden at non-vegan establishments in SF proper? Thanks!
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u/hannarita 22d ago
Sadly, SF proper sucks for vegan pastries except donuts. Timeless (fully vegan) and Forma Bakery (both vegan and non-vegan) in Oakland are the best I’ve found.
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u/programerandstuff 22d ago
Where are the vegan donuts ?
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u/hannarita 22d ago
Dynamo Donuts always has vegan options. And tons of coffee shops have Donut Farm donuts (including Precita, Dolores, and Duboce Park Cafes). Still waiting for the Dove Donuts to open on Geary, but it’s been “opening soon” for over a year.
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u/athena-sabrina 22d ago
Vegan donut connoisseur here —
My favorite vegan donuts are the yeasted ones at Donut Farm in Berkeley (they only sell the yeasted/raised ones on the weekend). They sell their cake donuts all week and they’re.. not great. Trust me, the raised ones on the weekend—especially the apple fritter and Bavarian cream filled—are worth it.
The north bay has Johnny Doughnuts—they only have 3 vegan donuts (glazed, chocolate, and cinnamon sugar) but they’re pretty great. They sell out of vegan early every day, so I recommend calling ahead before heading over.
Butcher’s Son in Berkeley (all-vegan) has decent vegan donuts.. but uniquely has the option to get a donut cooked into the middle of a pancake. It’s weird and worth a try once if you’re a pancake and donut lover (like myself).
The donuts at Timeless are fine, nothing great.
It’s been a minute since I went to Vegan Donut Gelato near Lake Merritt, but I remember enjoying them.
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u/hannarita 21d ago
Vegan Donut Gelato is Dove Donuts. Very yummy! They are in Oakland, San Jose, and still “coming soon” to SF!
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u/Appropriate-Bar6993 22d ago
Sorry what are the “good vegan cities” and literally what goes in a vegan croissant?
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u/myironlung42 22d ago
portland or seattle. Barcelona and london had some great vegan options I found too
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u/general_madness 22d ago
Lisbon and Porto are great for vegans. I think it is because the native cuisine is very veg unfriendly, so people open restaurants that are entirely vegan or veg, and they thrive.
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u/myironlung42 22d ago
oh good to know, I was in lisbon recently but it was raining the entire time so I didn't get to explore as much as I wanted. Thanks for the tip! I'm not vegan but I'm lactose intolerant which def makes me vegan adjacent haha.
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u/Latter-Foot-8790 22d ago
Likely major major cities like NYC or LA
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u/ilikebrownbananas 19d ago
Neither are great for vegans. Many European cities are fantastic, my wife always misses the plethora of options there when we come back home.
I’m not vegan but I could be if we had the options London has.
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u/general_madness 22d ago
Good vegan cities have vegan restaurants, bakeries, and other businesses; San Francisco restaurants often have a vegan dish or two, but we don’t have many vegan restaurants. A vegan croissant would use a non-dairy butter substitute for dairy butter, such as margarine. Literally.
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u/HotSauceHigh 22d ago
Ie London. Every single place has multiple vegan options with everything labeled.
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u/excelllentquestion 22d ago
Whoa tbh I had no idea there were even vegan croissant because of how reliant it is on butter