Vegetarian Döner in Berlin: Every Kebap on Our Menu, Your Way
A vegetarian döner is a döner kebap without meat, with something just as satisfying in its place. At Kebap with Attitude in Berlin Mitte, every kebap on our menu can be made vegetarian. You choose between three options instead of meat: crispy falafel, grilled halloumi or Planted, a plant based meat. Add homemade sauces, fresh bread from a Neukölln bakery and a few vegetarian mezze for the table, and you've got a full meal that nobody will call the side option.
CONTENTS
What Is a Vegetarian Döner?
Vegetarian or Vegan: What's the Difference?
Three Ways to Go Meat Free at Our Place
Every Kebap on Our Menu Can Be Vegetarian
Sauces for Vegetarians and Vegans
Complete the Table With Vegetarian Mezze
How Many Calories Are in a Vegetarian Döner?
Vegetarian Döner in Berlin Mitte: Come By
FAQ
What Is a Vegetarian Döner?
In Germany, the döner has become more of a format than a single dish. Warm bread, fresh salad, crunchy vegetables, a generous amount of sauce and something hearty in the middle. A vegetarian döner keeps all of that and simply swaps the meat for something else. For a long time, that something else was grilled vegetables and feta, which is still how a lot of Berlin shops make it, and it's why "Gemüse Döner" became a Berlin classic in its own right.
The problem is that in many places, the vegetarian version still feels like an afterthought. A few extra salad leaves, some cheese, and a sense that you've ordered the backup plan. We've never seen it that way. If you don't eat meat, you should still get a kebap that's built properly, with real texture, real flavour and the same care that goes into everything else we make. That's why we don't have one vegetarian dish on our menu. We have a vegetarian version of every single kebap.
Vegetarian or Vegan: What's the Difference?
It's worth getting this one straight, because the two words get mixed up all the time. Vegetarian means no meat and no fish, but dairy and eggs are fine. Vegan means nothing from an animal at all, so no cheese, no yoghurt, no mayonnaise and no butter either.
In a döner, that difference mostly comes down to two things: the cheese and the sauce. A kebap with halloumi or feta is vegetarian, but not vegan. The same goes for creamy sauces made with yoghurt or mayonnaise. So if you're vegetarian, you can order pretty much anything on our menu once the meat is swapped out. If you're vegan, you'll want to choose your protein and sauces a little more carefully, and we'll help you with that. Tell our team how you eat when you order, and we'll build your kebap around it.
Three Ways to Go Meat Free at Our Place
Instead of meat, you can choose falafel, halloumi or Planted in any of our kebaps. All three are good, but they do very different things, so here's how to pick.
Falafel are small fried balls of ground chickpeas, fresh herbs and spices. They're crispy on the outside, soft and green on the inside, with an earthy, herby flavour that works beautifully with fresh salad and our homemade sauces. Falafel are vegan on their own, which makes them the most flexible choice on the menu. We've written a whole post on the falafel döner if you want to know more.
Halloumi is a firm, salty cheese that keeps its shape when it's grilled. It's rich, a little squeaky and very satisfying, which makes it the comfort option for vegetarians who want something hearty. It's not vegan, because it's cheese, but if you eat dairy, it's hard to beat.
Planted is a plant based meat made from pea protein. Of our three options, it comes closest to the texture of meat from the spit, so it's the one to choose if you miss the feeling of a classic döner. It's fully vegan, and it's what we use in our Vallah Vegan.
So in short: falafel for crunch and herbs, halloumi for something rich and salty, Planted for the closest thing to a classic döner.
Every Kebap on Our Menu Can Be Vegetarian
This is the part we're most proud of. You don't have to settle for one vegetarian dish. Every kebap on our menu can be made vegetarian, so you get to choose based on what you're in the mood for, not on what's left over.
Love the classics? Our Klassik comes with salad, red cabbage, red onions, tomatoes, pickles and parsley, and it works just as well with falafel as it does with beef. Want something fresher? The Tschick brings grilled vegetables, cucumber, feta, mint and lime, and with halloumi it becomes a proper Mediterranean feast. Feeling indulgent? The Truffle Delüks, with green asparagus, roasted potatoes, pomegranate, freshly grated truffle and truffle mayo, doesn't lose any of its charm when Planted takes the place of the beef. And the O.G., with grilled peppers, tomatoes, yoghurt, butter and tomato sauce, is a natural home for halloumi.
You also get to choose your format, just like everyone else at the table. Order your kebap as a Pide in our crispy flatbread, as a Dürüm wrapped in thin yufka bread, or as a Tray, which is a larger portion with a side. Some kebaps also come as a Sandwich. Whatever you pick, the bread arrives fresh every day from our bakery in Neukölln.
That's the idea behind our Natural Attitude: honest ingredients, prepared in house, and a menu where nobody gets the short end of the stick. Our meat is local and free range, but our vegetarian options get exactly the same attention.
Sauces for Vegetarians and Vegans
Our sauces are homemade from natural ingredients, and they're a big part of why our kebaps taste the way they do. The good news for vegetarians is that almost every sauce on our menu is fine for you, including our creamy garlic and herb sauces, which are the classic pairing for a döner.
If you're vegan, four of our eleven sauces are fully plant based: Tomato, Spicy, Smoky BBQ and our Vegan Cacık. The Vegan Cacık is our homemade plant based white sauce with garlic and herbs, so you still get something cool and creamy without any dairy. Pair it with falafel or Planted and our Spicy sauce, and you've got a completely vegan kebap that still has everything a döner should have.
Complete the Table With Vegetarian Mezze
A kebap is great on its own, but it's even better when the table is full. Our mezze menu has plenty for vegetarians, and sharing a few small plates is the best way to try more of what we make.
Start with our Hummus or Mama Ganoush, a smoked eggplant purée with garlic, olive oil and parsley, both served with bread for dipping. Add our Homemade Turşu, Turkish pickled vegetables with sumac and parsley, for something sharp and crunchy between bites. If you'd like something warm, our Mini Falafel come with sweet tahini, pomegranate, mint and sesame, and our Zucchini Feta Fritters are homemade fried nuggets served with a garlic dip. The Cauli Tahini brings spicy fried cauliflower on tahini with sesame, pomegranate, cilantro pesto and garlic, and it's one of those dishes people order a second time. For something fresh, our Beetroot salad combines beetroot with grapes, walnuts, mint and yoghurt.
Coming as a group? Our Mixed Mezze Tray lets you choose six mezze for the table, served with bread. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone gets a bit of everything before the kebaps arrive.
How Many Calories Are in a Vegetarian Döner?
A vegetarian döner usually lands somewhere between about 500 and 900 calories, depending on the filling, the bread, how much cheese goes in and, most of all, the sauce. That surprises a lot of people, because "vegetarian" sounds like it should mean lighter.
Here's why it isn't always the case. Halloumi and feta are cheese, so they bring a fair amount of fat. Falafel are fried, which means they soak up some oil. Planted tends to be the leaner choice of the three. On the other hand, all three bring protein, and falafel and Planted add fibre too, which keeps you full for longer.
If you're watching calories, the filling matters less than you'd think. The biggest difference comes from the sauce. Going a little lighter on creamy sauces or choosing a tomato based one changes the total far more than any swap in the middle.
Vegetarian Döner in Berlin Mitte: Come By
We've been making kebaps at Gipsstraße 2 since 2019, just around the corner from Rosenthaler Platz. We're a full service restaurant with space for up to 120 guests, inside, on our front terrace and in our backyard garden, so it's an easy place to bring friends who eat differently from you. Meat eaters, vegetarians and vegans can all order from the same menu and sit at the same table, and nobody has to compromise.
If you'd rather stay in, you can order your vegetarian döner through Wolt, Lieferando or Uber Eats. And if you're planning a get together, our mezze and vegetarian kebaps work just as well for groups and events.
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