GYVAS baras
Opened in spring 2015, and few months after cooking vegetarian food, GYVAS baras became all vegan on July 13 and is the first vegan restaurant in Lithuania. Prepares vegan food with large variety, including weekly new flavors of burgers made with ingredients like tofu or sweet potato or bean. Offers daily changing business lunch Mon-Fri. Features a selection of beer and cider including authentic Lithuanian beer ALUS. Open Mon-Wed 11:30am-10:00pm, Thu 11:30am-11:00pm, Fri 11:30am-12:00am, Sat-Sun 12:00am-12:00am, Sat 12:00pm-12:00am, Sun 1:00pm-8:00pm.
Category: Vegan, International, Western, Beer/Wine
Reviews (74)
First Review by lauravi
Contributions +27
Nice vegan place - Edit
Nothing special. Food is tasty, especially sweet potato burger. I tried the meal of the day quite a few times and I got a bit disappointed. But it's not enough just to be a vegan place. I could recommend this place only for burgers. I would go there again but as I said nothing special.
Pros: Good value, Big portions
Cons: Kinda sleepy atmosphere , That's not low salt of low fat place (just saying)
Contributions +61
Good and cheap - Edit
The restaurant is nice and the staff really friendly. Me and my friends tried each one different main dishes. And all of them were delicious.
It is cheap and yummy.
Pros: Price, Tasty, Friendly staff
Contributions +11
Uuuuhu!! - Edit
Recommended recommended! :)
Great food, staff, music and location.
Pros: Indian options are delicious!!, Music
Cons: Nothing I noticed
Contributions +11
Wonderful - Edit
Delicious and ethicaly responsible food, friendly stuff, good music and very good place in the centre of Vilnius! One of the best and my favourite places in this city!
Pros: Deliciuos food, Friendly stuff, Good music
Cons: No
Contributions +18
amazing place - Edit
very cozy, amazing music and atmosphere. the food was good too. really reccomend this place.
Contributions +27
flavour bomb - Edit
Lovely place, funny posters and interior. Staff is friendly, and menu has lots of choice. I tried the burger and let them surprise me, so got the marinated soya nuggets served with potato chips. Amazing!!!
Contributions +8
Chockolate cake - Edit
Need to taste the no sugar no flour chocolate cake...
Best...
Pros: Staff, Location, Chocolate cake
Cons: Sleepy atmosphere
Contributions +11
super tasty burgers - Edit
Me and my boyfriend (who is not vegetarian) tried the seitan burger and the soy nugget burger, and we really enjoyed it👍 the food was very tasty and the atmosphere was also very good 😃 we will definitely recommend this place to some of our not vegetarian friends 😃👍
Contributions +9
Underwhelming - Edit
Maybe the cook had a bad day, but the food was not really convincing.
Updated from previous review on 2016-08-28
Pros: Nice looking restaurant at a central location., The soup was delicious.
Cons: The fries and potato chips were soggy and oily., The chilly was not spicy, contrary to description.
Contributions +77
Great - Edit
We tried 3 main courses and cake with the ice-cream. Everything was delicious. I am not a massive sweets fan, but the cake my boyfriend ordered was so good that I ate half of his portion. The Vanilla ice-cream was the most milky milkless ice-cream I have ever tried. The cheese tasted like normal cheese as well, so I recommend to take there your not vegan friends. They will love the food there.
Pros: cheap, tasty, fully vegan, very nice waitress
Cons: a little bit heavy and not super healthy
Contributions +64
amazing - Edit
I've been to this restaurant like 6 times in one week.
Plates are amazing, and quantity is very good.
The best vegan I've been in Vilnius by far !
Contributions +170
good food Nice place - Edit
A really cosy place with a mix of local And national guests. A bit alternative, With fresh affortable food And nice but crowdy outdoor seating. A lot of vegan options.
Pros: Nice people, cosy outdoor seating
Cons: a long wait before being served
Contributions +15
Best vegan food I've ever eaten! - Edit
It's placed in small street near to main one. Quiet place with really great peaceful and chilling music. Sweet potatoes soup was heaven! My burger was perfect like not dry (it happens that vegan / vegetarian burgers are so dry). Falafeles of course we're greate with their hummus. You don't have to be afraid that you might be a little bit hungry after your diner here because dishes are really big. And their Lithuanian beer is also great like a little bit sour and light.
Pros: Near to main street, Place where you can chill out, Friendly staff
Cons: Small bar- not many people can be here at once
Contributions +16
The worst vegan restaurant in Vilnius. - Edit
I was looking forward to visit this restaurant, but I was very, very disappointed. The room was gloomy and bare. The food was tasteless - I ordered a dish with Tandoori masala, but it was as the number of the tongue out of the window. I was not pleased.
Pros: Friendly staff
Cons: Tasteless food
Contributions +14
good, but very expensive - Edit
place is nice, our waitress (blonde lovely girl) was very profesional and friendly. we ordered soups: sweet potato a bit spicy was fantastic we liked it a lot, but soup pf the day - tomato soup was like diluted pizza souce. main dishes - soya nuggets burger with fries - very nice, big and tasty, second dish was a bit dissapointing - fallafel salad - good but no fireworks.
summarizing - that was good expirience, but we paid for 2 beers, 2 soups and 2 main dishes almost € 23. in my opinion for that price food should be much better.
Pros: sweet potato soup, soya nuggets burger
Cons: expensive
Contributions +13
Very disappointing diner experience - Edit
After an excellent vegan restaurant experience in Tallinn, I was looking forward to eat here on my last day of a 1 month trip. Especially after all these very positive reviews here.
It couldn't be more disappointing. I love falafel, which I ordered.
It didn't look like falafel...
It didn't taste like falafel,
man It really wasn't falafel but some balls with beans and....?
no pita no decent salad, the humus wasn't humus but also something else
Atmosphere was also not ver social a bot sleepy maybe, I just wanted to leave as soon as possible....
No happy, positivity is great, but this place is not that good
Contributions +19
Excellent and affordable. - Edit
I stayed in Vilnius for 2 days and was looking for a vegan restaurant. I found Gyvas and read the reviews, all of them said it was amazing and it indeed was. I ate there the 2 days I stayed in Vilnius, it's fully vegan and inexpensive. Lithuanian food is not vegan friendly thus Gyvas was an amazing option. I ate the burger and the tofu tikka masala and the chocolate cake; they were amazing and they filled me up considering I always eat big portions. Service was excellent and the food was ready quite quickly. Overall, an amazing restaurant.
Pros: Location, Price, Excellent food
Cons: None
Contributions +20
Sipsari is pleased! - Edit
Made the trip to Lithuania solely because of this restaurant. I tried the burger (it came with potato chips, the crispy kind!!!), sweet potato soup, tortilla and chocolate cake with ice cream and loved every bite. Quite cheap and lovely!
Pros: good service, calm and pleasant atmosphere, great food
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