• Meli Restaurant

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Family-run Greek restaurant with vegan options that include dolmas, vegetable platters, veggie meatballs, souvlaki, and more. Open Mon-Sun 12:00pm-11:30pm.


11 Reviews

First Review by alicehirst

magdalang

Points +16

Vegan
16 Sep 2025

Beste Gastro Erfahrung in meinem Leben!

Am besten hat mir gefallen das unser Tisch einen Gruß aus der Küche bekommen hat.
Dieser war aber nicht vegan was unser Kellner sofort bemerkte, meinen Gruß gab der Kellner darauf sofort meinem Freund und ich bekam etwas Veganes.
Wenn man bei ihnen erwähnt man ist Vegan dann muss man gefühlt an nichts mehr denken denn das übernehmen sie für einen.
Auch wenn die Auswahl nicht die grösste ist würde ich immer wieder kommen da es eine mega coole Erfahrung war die ich so noch nie erlebt habe!

Pros: Gastfreundlich, Mega aufmerksam , sie wissen was sie machen

Cons: Räumlichkeiten sind eng

RomanRajchert

Points +91

Mostly Veg
10 Sep 2025

Lot of veggie options

We came here based on the photos from HappyCow, which pictured some sort of vegan meat. Firstly, you really need to ask for veggie menu. We ordered veggie souvlaki and gyros. But they brought us halloumi based dishes instead of veggie meat. So we ate it, but most of us was really dissapointed because we expected the meat, literally the reason we came here. We vould have same food elsewhere. The service wasn't also particularly pleasant. If you really want plant based dish, make sure to discuss it with them first.

Pros: Separate veggie menu, Taste was good

Cons: Halloumi instead of vegan meat, Brought big water when we didn't specify

AnitaTran

Points +376

Vegan
13 Aug 2025

Sweet little taverna in the old town

The staff was very welcoming and had a separate menu listing vegan an vegetarian options. The prices were good considering the location and the food tasted nice as well. The staff was attentive to our needs, as one of the waiters brought us yogurt sauce by accident and another waiter noticed and fixed it without us mentioning. We came back to this lovely place during our stay.

Pros: Welcoming staff, Delicious food

Cons: Not too many vegan options

Schnapsi

Points +16

Vegan
21 Jun 2025

Experience real greek food

Theres a vegetarian Menu with only few vegan options. But if you talk to the owner he‘ll take the time to give you advice on which foods can be made vegan: Pita bread, Olives, Dolmades, Pitaroudia, garlic mushrooms, eggplant salad, stuffed vegetable, vegan Burger, they even offer a vegan Mousaka.

Meli7h

Points +484

Vegan
04 May 2025

👍🏻

Super friendly staff explaining everything that can be made vegan. We ate the Gyros with hummus instead of Tsatsiki.

Swerwegian

Points +19

Mostly Veg
24 Oct 2024

Cosy restaurant with vegan menu

Very cosy restaurant with its own vegan menu. Food is great and they are very helpful with allergies or food preferences.
(We had to ask for the vegan menu)

Pros: Vegan menu, Great food , Friendly staff

Mazapster

Points +93

Vegan
25 Apr 2024

Small vegan options but very very tasty

They offer stuffed veggies and a few other things like bread and dips etc. Note no gyros, meatballs or anything faux meat for vegans

The items on offer are delicious, coming back for the famous dolmades. Yummm

Updated from previous review on 2024-04-25

MrMiagi

Points +28

Fruitarian
22 Jul 2023

Best host and best vegan joint

We had the pleasure to eat at this Greek tavern, they have a vegan menu that you need to ask for. We saw it because they had VEGAN stickers at the front. It’s a small establishment and the host was extremely family friendly. The food was delicious. We had Dolmades, greek salad, roasted mushrooms in garlic sauce, stuffed bell pepper with rice, and hummus / eggplant for dips and some roasted veggies. I can’t stress enough how the host/owner made the experience so much unforgettable. He was a true passionate restaurant owner. And there was old tradition Greek music all along. Definitely the best spot to eat, vegan or non vegan.

Updated from previous review on 2023-07-18

Pros: The owner, Hospitality , Service

Nlhjanto

Points +16

Vegan
21 Jul 2023

Very very good Vegan options

They have a rather extensive vegetarian menu card but are extremely accommodating towards vegans - and around 80% of the vegetarian options could be made vegan. We got 6 difference dishes and all were very good with fresh ingredients and freshly cooked. No frozen food here. Would give a 5 star review if possible

quinnel

Points +53

Vegan
21 Jun 2023

Good for vegetarians, not vegans

Multiple vegetarian options, but only few vegan ones. The vegan options were vegetarian food, but without cheese or tzatiki. I ordered stuffed vegetables (the only vegan item on main menu, according to the owner), so I had fries and one stuffed bell pepper and one stuffed tomato.
Stuffing was only rice and spices, and the rice was al dente. Wait time was approx. 45 minutes, but we were there during rush so it's understandable.
There was a young waiter who was very kind and funny, so all plusses to him.
I wouldn't recommend this establishment if you are vegan, but for vegetarians I definetly would opt here since there were so many vegetarian options.

Pros: Service

alicehirst

Points +25

Vegan
13 Jun 2023

Wonderful greek food with a caring passionate owner

This would have 5 stars if it wasn’t for happy cows policy to only offer that to vegan/veggie restaurants.
We stumbled upon the place and noticed the vegan available sign and browsed the menus. The owner the. Talked us through what they could offer. It was clear he understood exactly what vegan food was and how to tailor the food. We opted for souvlaki, gyro with some homemade dolmades pitta and grilled veggies. All was absolutely delicious especially the dolmades.
Talking to the owner his passion to offer options to all was incredible.
Highly recommended this place and will be back before our time in Rhodes is out!

quinnel

21 Jun 2023

Hi, I went to the same restaurant (you gave a great impression) and went through the vegan menu with the personnel and chef. I learned that the only main menu item that was completely vegan was stuffed vegetables. I specifically asked for the gyros and they said it's not possible to make vegan (but vegetarian is okay). There was no plant-based protein or milk-alternatives. This obviously left me wondering since I saw your recent review and there is a possibility they had some vegan stuff while you where there but it is also possible that you might have eaten vegetarian food.

Schnapsi

21 Jun 2025

I had the Same experience as alicehirst. Theres a vegetarian Menu with only few vegan options. But if you talk to the owner he‘ll take the time to give you advice on which foods can be made vegan: Pita bread, Olives, Dolmades, Pitaroudia, garlic mushrooms, eggplant salad, stuffed vegetable, vegan Burger, they even offer a vegan Mousaka.




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