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Here is the honest answer. Nabäti Eatery is a vegetarian kitchen on the Keizerstraat in Rotterdam Centrum, and every single dish on our menu can be made vegan. Most of what we serve is already vegan exactly as it comes to the table. For the few dishes that are not, the change is one ingredient, and we make it without any fuss.
If you are the person in the group who always has to check first, this is a place where you do not have to.
We cook Jordanian and Levantine food: chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, aubergine, pomegranate, za’atar, herbs, warm bread. That style of cooking is plant-based at its root, which is why so much of the menu is vegan without anyone having to adapt it.
Where a dish does contain dairy, the menu says so and names the swap. Our menu marks every dish two ways. A filled leaf means vegan as served. An outlined leaf means vegan on request, with the change written next to it. Nothing is left for you to guess at, and nothing is labelled vegan unless it is.
If you are working down a list of vegan restaurants in Rotterdam, we are the odd one on it, and it is fairer to say that here than to let you find it out at the counter. Nabäti is a vegetarian kitchen. Every dish we make can be made vegan and most of it already is, but we also serve halloumi, yoghurt and ayran to the people who want them.
For what you actually end up ordering, that difference mostly disappears. Eating vegan in Rotterdam usually means reading a menu twice and asking a question you have asked a hundred times. Here it means reading a mark. Almost every dish on our menu page carries one, and the three that do not are the halloumi sandwich, the yoghurt tahini dressing and the ayran, which are the three you would have guessed. The vegan side of the menu is not a corner of it.
A starting point rather than the full list. The menu carries the marks dish by dish.
Our falafel is fried to order and served with lemon tahini. Hummus, spicy hummus, msabbaha, baba ghanouj, muhammara and foul mdammas all come vegan as served, each with warm pita. What goes into it, and why it is vegan, is on is hummus vegan, and what it is made of.
The traditional falafel sandwich, the makali sandwich of fried aubergine, cauliflower and courgette, and the za’atar sandwich are vegan as served. So are the falafel rolls, the spinach rolls, fattoush, the batata side of fried potatoes with garlic sauce, the mixed pickles, the tomato and tahini salad, the farmers salad and the plate of fresh vegetables.
Our fatteh bowls and the larger platters are built on chickpeas, hummus and crisp bread. Several use a yoghurt tahini dressing, and every one of those is vegan on request with the non-dairy dressing. Both of our desserts are vegan.
Vegan falafel in Rotterdam is easier to find than it used to be, and ours is the thing most people come back for. Falafel balls by the three, six or twelve. Stuffed falafel, which is a larger one filled with onion and sumac and sprinkled with sesame. The traditional falafel sandwich, four balls smashed into warm pita with tomato tahini salad, pickles and mint. Falafel rolls, five to a portion. The menu page marks every one of those vegan as served, along with the hummus and falafel plate. The falafel crunch bowl is marked vegan on request, and the change there is the non-dairy dressing.
See the full menu with every dish marked
We sit in the middle of the Keizerstraat, about five minutes on foot from Rotterdam Blaak, which makes us a straightforward stop for lunch. Half sandwiches, small hummus plates and the falafel bowls are the quick end of the menu. Nothing here takes an hour. If what you typed was vegan restaurant Rotterdam Centrum, this is the honest version of what you found: a vegetarian kitchen in the middle of the centre where the whole menu can be made vegan.
a quick vegan lunch in the centre
Every dish on the menu page carries its allergen line, taken from our own kitchen’s allergen sheet. Where the sheet does not cover something, the page says to ask our staff, and our staff will actually know. The full allergen sheet is downloadable from the menu page.
Come and sit down on the Keizerstraat, order through Uber Eats or Thuisbezorgd, or ask us about catering an office lunch or an event. Catering runs on the same kitchen and the same marks, so a vegan table is not a special request.
As a dish, almost always. Falafel is ground chickpeas or broad beans mixed with onion, garlic, parsley or coriander and spices, shaped and deep fried, and nothing on that list comes from an animal.
What changes the answer is almost never the falafel but the sauce or the cheese on the same plate, and on our menu page each falafel dish carries its own mark. The long answer is here: is falafel vegan, and what changes the answer.
Most of them, and the menu page tells you which without you having to ask. A filled leaf means vegan as served. An outlined leaf means we make it vegan on request, and the change is written next to it. All seven plates are marked vegan as served: hummus, spicy hummus, msabbaha, baba ghanouj, muhammara, foul mdammas, and hummus with falafel. So are both desserts, the falafel balls, the stuffed falafel, and the traditional falafel, makali and za’atar sandwiches. All five bowls are marked vegan on request, and the change is the non-dairy dressing.
Yes, and here it is a whole menu rather than a section of one. We are at Keizerstraat 168, about five minutes on foot from Rotterdam Blaak. Half sandwiches and the small plates are the quick end if you are on a break. The bowls, the platters and the sharing boxes are the sit-down end.
Keizerstraat 168, 3011 GH Rotterdam. Rotterdam Centrum, close to Blaak.
