Corydon Avenue is known for its Italian restaurants, but there's more for vegetarian and vegan guests than a side salad. A few blocks of Little Italy cover a dedicated plant-based menu, a cocktail bar with meat-free small plates, and kitchens that will happily point out what's already vegetarian on the menu.

A fully plant-based stop

The Mighty Kiwi Juice Bar & Eatery (709 Corydon Ave) is the easiest option if you want a meal that's vegan by default rather than by request: smoothies, soups, salads, and wraps built around plant-based ingredients, plus vegan cheesecakes in rotating flavours like snickerdoodle and blueberry lemon.

Vegetarian small plates with cocktails

The Roost (651 Corydon Ave) is a cocktail bar on the second floor of a century-old Little Italy house, and its seasonal small-plates menu includes vegetarian options alongside its craft cocktails and natural wines — a good pick for an evening out rather than a quick lunch.

Vegetarian dishes inside Corydon's Italian and Georgian kitchens

Bar Italia (737 Corydon Ave) lists vegetarian dishes on its menu, including a pizza topped with eggplant and arugula. A little further along, Saperavi Georgian Cuisine (709 Corydon Ave) — the prairies' first Georgian restaurant — offers marked vegetarian dishes such as a vegetarian kubdari and a pkhali platter alongside its more traditional meat-forward menu.

From the Airbnb: All four spots are within a few minutes' walk of each other on Corydon Avenue itself. Menus change with the seasons, so it's worth confirming a specific vegetarian or vegan dish is still on offer — by checking the restaurant's own site or asking your server — before you go in expecting it.