Every UK festival has vegan food, but how much choice you get varies. Glastonbury, Boomtown and Green Man are brilliant for vegans. Reading, Leeds, Download and Kendal Calling have plenty of vegan options, even if fully vegan stalls are rarer. Pick your festival and what you want to do, and the checker below tells you what to expect.
Updated November 2026. I’m vegetarian and often eat vegan food at festivals (and everywhere else), so the verdicts come from my own experience at these festivals, plus what the festivals have published for 2026 (2025 for Glastonbury, which had a fallow year in 2026). Traders change every year, so the sources are at the bottom of the page.
Is there vegan food?
Choose a festival and what you want to do.
Which UK festivals are vegan-friendly?
Here’s the short answer for each festival. “Great” means lots of fully vegan stalls as well as vegan options everywhere. “Good” means you’ll eat well, mostly from vegan options at ordinary stalls.
| Festival | Vegan food | Vegetarian food | Cheap meal deal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glastonbury | Great | Great | £6 meals at most stalls (2025) |
| Boomtown | Great | Great | £6 meals at some stalls |
| Green Man | Great | Great | None found |
| Reading | Good | Good | None |
| Leeds | Good | Good | Co-op meal deal |
| Download | Good | Good | None |
| Kendal Calling | Good | Good | None found |
| Isle of Wight | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | None found |
Is there vegan food at every festival?
Yes. In my experience, every festival has some vegan food. Sometimes it’s a whole stall or a row of vegan traders, sometimes it’s one vegan dish on an ordinary menu. Usually at least one trader is fully vegan. And at the very least, there are always chips.
At medium and large festivals, you’ll definitely be catered for. Vegan food is a big seller now: across UK events, sales of vegan food went up by 28% in a year1, and some festivals have dropped meat altogether. In 2024, one in five of the festivals assessed by A Greener Future were fully vegetarian or vegan, up from fewer than one in ten the year before2, although that’s festivals across Europe and beyond, not just the UK.
What about vegan food at small festivals?
Small festivals are where it gets harder. I recently went to a small festival with just two food stalls: one selling pizza and one selling pad Thai. The pizza stall would make a vegan pizza, with vegetables and no cheese, if you asked, even though it wasn’t on the menu. The pad Thai stall had you choose beef, fish, chicken or egg. They’d have made one with just noodles and vegetables if you’d asked, but that’s not much protein to get you through a day of dancing.
So at a really small festival, ask the stalls what they can do, as most will make you something. And bring some protein snacks of your own, so you’re not living on chips and noodles all weekend. These two are vegan, don’t need a fridge and survive being squashed in a rucksack:
TREK Protein Flapjack variety pack (24 x 50g) (opens in a new tab)
Vegan oat flapjacks with 9g of plant protein each. Filling, and easy to keep in your bag for when the food queues are long.
BRAVE roasted chickpeas, salt and vinegar (12 x 35g) (opens in a new tab)
Crunchy roasted chickpeas in small bags: a savoury, high-protein swap for crisps.
If you’re camping, you can also cook for yourself. Here’s how to cook your own food at a music festival, and check what you can bring to a festival first, as some ban gas stoves or barbecues.
Vegan food at Glastonbury
Glastonbury is the easiest festival in the UK to eat vegan at. In 2025 it had “more vegan [stalls] than ever before”, and over 300 stalls, more than three-quarters of them, sold a meal for £6.3 The Green Fields are full of vegetarian and vegan cafés.4 And the Hare Krishna Tent gives out free food, usually a vegan vegetable stew with rice. Glastonbury took 2026 off, so this is based on 2025. It’s back on 23 to 27 June 2027. More detail: Is there vegan food at Glastonbury?
| Glastonbury | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Great | Loads of choice in my experience. In 2025, fully vegan stalls included Buddhafield Cafe in the Healing Field and Lalita’s Vegan Cafe, and many more had vegan options.5 The Hare Krishna Tent also gives out free food, usually a vegan vegetable stew with rice. |
| Find vegetarian food | Great | Easy. There are lots of fully vegetarian stalls, and most of the rest have a veggie option. |
| Get a cheap meal | Yes | Over 300 stalls had a £6 meal in 2025. Look for the sticker on the menu board. Or eat for free at the Hare Krishna Tent, which gives out free meals6: in my experience, a vegetable stew with rice that’s vegan. |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Allowed for your own use, but no glass jars. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Camping stoves are allowed. Cook outside and away from tents, and keep gas canisters out of your tent. |
Vegan food at Reading Festival
Reading has plenty of vegan food, though it’s mostly vegan options at ordinary stalls rather than whole vegan traders. The festival keeps track of how many vegetarian and vegan options its traders offer7, and the festival app shows what each stall sells. Reading is cashless, and drinking water is free throughout the arena.8
| Reading | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Good | Fine in my experience. Plenty of stalls have a vegan option. Check the festival app to see which. |
| Find vegetarian food | Good | Easy: halloumi, pizza, veggie burgers and noodles are all easy to find. |
| Get a cheap meal | No | There’s no official meal deal. Expect to pay about £10 to £15 a meal.9 |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Enough for yourself only. You can take a small amount into the arena, in a bag no bigger than A4. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Flat-based gas stoves with canisters of 250g or less, in the campsite only. Disposable barbecues and campfires are banned. |
Vegan food at Leeds Festival
Leeds has the same organisers and food rules as Reading, but different traders. In 2024 there was an entirely plant-based stall selling vegan kebabs, pizzas and burritos.10 There’s also a Co-op shop in the Blue campsite, which had a £5.50 lunch meal deal in 2026.11
| Leeds | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Good | Fine in my experience. There’s been a fully plant-based stall, and plenty of others have a vegan option. |
| Find vegetarian food | Good | Easy: halloumi and mac and cheese stalls come back year after year. |
| Get a cheap meal | Yes, but… | There’s no official meal deal, but the Co-op in the Blue campsite had a £5.50 lunch meal deal in 2026. A hot meal was about £12 in 2024. |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Enough for yourself only. You can take a small amount into the arena, in a bag no bigger than A4. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Flat-based gas stoves with canisters of 250g or less, in the campsite only. Disposable barbecues and campfires are banned. |
Vegan food at Download
Download is known for its barbecue, but it’s better for vegans than you might think. In 2026, over 80 of its 165-plus food and drink stalls had a vegan main, and over 114 had a vegetarian one.12 Fully vegan Club Mexicana was there too.13 Download is cashless, so bring a card or phone wallet.
| Download | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Good | Plenty of choice in my experience. Over 80 stalls had a vegan main in 2026, and Club Mexicana is fully vegan. |
| Find vegetarian food | Good | Over 114 stalls had a vegetarian main in 2026. |
| Get a cheap meal | No | There’s no official meal deal. |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Allowed in the campsite, including cool boxes. Hampers, cool boxes and cutlery can’t go into the arena. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | No gas at all. Meths, Trangia, gel and solid-fuel stoves are allowed in the campsite, raised 30cm off the ground.14 |
Vegan food at the Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival doesn’t publish a list of its food traders, so we can’t name its vegan stalls. It’s a big festival, though, and in my experience festivals that size always have vegan options. The catch is that you can’t take your own food into the arena, so once you’re in, you’re relying on the stalls.15
| Isle of Wight | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Not confirmed | The festival doesn’t publish its traders, but big festivals always have vegan options in my experience. |
| Find vegetarian food | Not confirmed | No details published, but vegetarian food is easy to find at any big festival. |
| Get a cheap meal | Not known | We couldn’t find a meal deal or food prices for 2026. |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Allowed in the campsite but not the arena, apart from baby food and formula (not in glass). |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Campsite only, in the designated areas, with gas canisters of 300g or less. Disposable barbecues are allowed in the same areas. |
Vegan food at Boomtown
Boomtown is one of the best festivals for vegans in my experience. On its 2025 trader list, around four in five food and drink stalls said they could cater for vegans, and several were fully veggie or vegan, like Feed the Village and Wholesome Junkies.16 In 2026, some traders did a filling £6 meal deal, marked on the festival map, and water was free from every tap and bar.17 More detail: Will there be vegan food at Boomtown?
| Boomtown | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Great | Loads of choice in my experience. Around four in five stalls could cater for vegans in 2025, and Feed the Village and Wholesome Junkies are all veggie or vegan. |
| Find vegetarian food | Great | Easy: halloumi, Greek food, toasties and mac and cheese are everywhere. |
| Get a cheap meal | Yes | Some traders do a £6 meal deal. They’re marked on the map. |
| Bring your own food | Yes | Allowed, but no glass jars. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Small gas stoves are usually allowed, but Boomtown can ban them in hot, dry weather, as it did in 2026. Barbecues are banned.18 |
Vegan food at Kendal Calling
Kendal Calling asks every food trader to offer at least one vegetarian option.19 Its 2026 list of food stalls shows a vegan option at about four in five of them, though only one stall, Ninas Taqueria, was fully vegan.20 So you’ll eat well, mostly from vegan options at ordinary stalls. Kendal Calling is cashless, with no cash machines.
| Kendal Calling | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Good | Fine in my experience. About 44 of the 54 food stalls had a vegan option in 2026, and Ninas Taqueria’s tacos and burritos are fully vegan. |
| Find vegetarian food | Good | Every trader is asked to have at least one vegetarian option. |
| Get a cheap meal | No | We couldn’t find a meal deal. There’s a Co-op shop on site for snacks. |
| Bring your own food | Yes, but… | Allowed in the campsite for your own use. Only snacks in the arena. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Campsite only, single-burner, with gas canisters of 230g or less. Disposable barbecues were banned in 2026 because of dry weather. |
Vegan food at Green Man
Green Man is a vegetarian’s dream in my experience, and it’s just as good for vegans. The festival says most of its stalls offer plant-based and vegetarian food21, that every dietary need is catered for, and that food is made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.22 It doesn’t publish a trader list, so we can’t name this year’s vegan stalls. Cards and cash are both taken.23
| Green Man | Verdict | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Find vegan food | Great | Loads of choice in my experience. Most stalls offer plant-based food. |
| Find vegetarian food | Great | Most stalls offer vegetarian food, and every dietary need is catered for. |
| Get a cheap meal | No | We couldn’t find a meal deal or food prices. |
| Bring your own food | Not stated | There’s no rule on food. Stoves and raised barbecues are allowed in the campsite, so cooking there is expected. |
| Cook your own food | Yes, but… | Stoves are allowed, with gas up to 5kg. Barbecues raised on legs are fine, but tin foil barbecues and campfires are banned. |
What about Secret Garden Party?
Secret Garden Party ended after its 2024 festival.24 When it was running, it was good for vegans, with a few fully vegan and vegetarian stalls and vegan options at most of the others. If a new festival takes its place, we’ll add it to the checker.
Tips for eating vegan at a festival
- Check the festival app before you go. Many big festivals list their food stalls in the app, and some let you see which ones are vegan.
- Ask. Plenty of stalls will make a vegan version of something on their menu, even if it isn’t listed: a pizza without cheese, or noodles without the meat or egg.
- Look for the meal deals. Glastonbury’s £6 meals have a sticker on the menu board, and Boomtown marks its £6 meal deals on the map.
- Bring protein. Chips are always vegan, but they won’t keep you going all weekend. Pack flapjacks, roasted chickpeas or nuts.
- Refill your water bottle for free. Every festival in the checker has free drinking water, so you don’t need to buy it.
- Check the rules on food and stoves. Our festival banned items checker covers food, gas stoves and barbecues at each festival.
Frequently asked questions
Which UK festivals are best for vegan food?
Glastonbury, Boomtown and Green Man, in my experience. All three have lots of fully vegan stalls as well as vegan options almost everywhere. Reading, Leeds, Download and Kendal Calling are good too, mostly through vegan options at ordinary stalls.
Is there vegan food at every festival?
Yes. Every festival I’ve been to has had some vegan food, usually including at least one fully vegan stall. At a very small festival there might only be one or two vegan dishes, so bring some protein snacks just in case.
How much does vegan food cost at a festival?
Usually about £10 to £15 for a main. Glastonbury had £6 meals at over 300 stalls in 2025, and some Boomtown traders did a £6 meal deal in 2026.
Can you bring your own food to a festival?
Usually, yes, into the campsite. Some festivals, like the Isle of Wight, don’t let you take food into the arena. Check our banned items checker for each festival’s rules.
Is festival food good for vegetarians?
Yes. Vegetarian food is even easier to find than vegan food. At Kendal Calling, every trader is asked to have at least one vegetarian option, and at Green Man most stalls offer vegetarian food.
The short version
You’ll find vegan food at every UK festival. Glastonbury, Boomtown and Green Man are the best for choice, and Reading, Leeds, Download and Kendal Calling have plenty of vegan options. At a small festival, ask the stalls what they can make you, and pack some protein snacks. And before you pack your stove, check what you can bring to a festival.
Sources
- Access All Areas: festivals see huge rise in non-alcoholic drink and vegan food sales, reporting Togather’s figures for UK events (October 2024) ↩︎
- Access All Areas: AGF finds 20% of festivals have gone meat-free, reporting A Greener Future’s 2024 figures for 40 festivals in 16 countries (April 2025) ↩︎
- Glastonbury: food at the Festival and the £6 offering (June 2025) ↩︎
- Glastonbury: Green Futures ↩︎
- Glastopedia: 100% vegetarian traders, a fan-run guide to Glastonbury’s 2025 traders ↩︎
- Evening Standard: an expert’s guide to Glastonbury (June 2024) ↩︎
- Reading Festival: charter ↩︎
- Reading Festival: first timers guide (August 2026) ↩︎
- Racket: Reading Festival 2025 review ↩︎
- Nouse: Leeds Festival food review (September 2024) ↩︎
- Leeds Festival: Co-op is back (2026) ↩︎
- Download Festival: the essentials (2026) ↩︎
- Sonic Abuse: Download 2026, beyond the bands ↩︎
- Download Festival: things you can and can’t bring ↩︎
- Isle of Wight Festival: care and safety (2026) ↩︎
- Boomtown: 2025 trader list (August 2025) ↩︎
- Boomtown: Vibe Check, fuel up, don’t burn out (July 2026) ↩︎
- Boomtown: Chapter Five essential guide (2026) ↩︎
- Kendal Calling: FAQs (2026) ↩︎
- Kendal Calling: 2026 dietary list (PDF) ↩︎
- Green Man: being green ↩︎
- Green Man: food and drink (2026) ↩︎
- Green Man: FAQs ↩︎
- Access All Areas: Secret Garden Party to burn main stage as festival closes for good (July 2024) ↩︎
