Beetnut
A contemporary vegan restaurant in Zürich, all hanging plants and inventive warm bowls: try the Inca-inspired bowl and zucchini chocolate cake.
Beetnut sets out, from the name down, to beat down a tired idea: that vegan dining is the lacklustre option. In Zürich, it makes the counter-argument with some confidence.
The room reads as contemporary rather than crunchy: eco-conscious bulbs and trailing plants overhead, a clean modern palette, the kind of space that signals the kitchen takes design as seriously as flavour. It is plant-forward eating presented without apology.
The plates back it up. Beetnut is best known for its warm, earthy bowls, layered and generous in a way that feels engineered for genuine satisfaction. The By The Inkas bowl is the one regulars return for: mangold, quinoa, nachos and guacamole among a long list of soulful ingredients, building to something far greater than a salad.
Save room for the zucchini chocolate cake. It is the sort of dessert that quietly converts sceptics: rich, properly satisfying, and a neat demonstration of the restaurant’s thesis that nothing has been given up.
What gives Beetnut its substance is intent. The cooking is inventive without being fussy, the sourcing considered, the vegetables treated as the headline rather than the consolation.
For a traveller in Zürich who wants a plant-forward meal with real ambition behind it, somewhere the food looks as good as it tastes, Beetnut is a warm recommendation. Order the By The Inkas bowl, and do not skip the cake.
