Cafes & restaurants

This website is intended to cover a very wide range - Port Stephens, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, the Hunter Valley and the Upper Hunter.

Within this region are plenty of cafes and restaurants that cater for a wide range of tastes. I have no intention of personally going out to review every cafe and restaurant in the Hunter. So here is where you come in!

Please send me information about which establishments offer a 'decent range' of vegetarian options. It need not be 100% vegetarian, but there needs to be more than to token offering of a pasta or salad on the menu.

Vegan Newcastle?s Instagram might be a good jumping-off point : https://www.instagram.com/vegannewcastle

Here are some of my favourites, along with suggestions from enthusiastic contributors:

Amanda's on the Edge - McDonalds Road, Pokolbin (Mike Wilson) - have long featured an impressive range of vegetarian options

Antojitos Newcastle - Steel Street (Gabrielle O'Boyle) - Mexican with good options

Bhan Mi 233 - 122 Hunter Street, Newcastle (Gabrielle O'Boyle) - Vietnamese in the City area

Cakeboi - Lindsay Street, Hamilton (Emily Louise) - pretty famous for desserts, also high tea, coffee, savoury dishes

Food Farmacy - 52 Ada Street, Cardiff (Soraya Correia) - local legends

Norma's Bistro - Alder Park Sports Club, Bridges Road, New Lambton (Heidi Duckworth) - not your average sports club!

Mama P - Charlestown Square (Gracie Crumbs) - real food, real flavour

Organic Feast - William Street, East Maitland (Shelly Lofts) - something of a local institution - lunch and supplies

Prince of Merewether - Morgan Street, Merewether (Emily Louise) - traditional local pub with a decent range of options

The Bhakti Tree
- Maitland Road, Mayfield West (Gracie Crumbs) - Indian influenced veg & vegan cafe

Momos Wholefood - Hunter Street, Newcastle (Gabrielle O'Boyle) - (almost entirely vegan) for breaky/lunch

Light Years Asian Diner - Darby Street, Cooks Hill (Gabrielle O'Boyle) - fancy Asian fusion