A 100% vegan restaurant near Omotesando Station serving Mediterranean-influenced plant-based dishes and desserts across breakfast, lunch and dinner, from the team behind the former Pure Cafe.
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Vegan
私はヴィーガンです。肉・魚・卵・乳製品は食べられません。
Watashi wa vīgan desu. Niku, sakana, tamago, nyūseihin wa taberaremasen.
I'm vegan. I can't eat meat, fish, eggs or dairy.
出汁に魚やかつおは使っていますか？Is there fish or bonito in the dashi (stock)?
野菜だけで作れますか？Could you make it with vegetables only?
Restaurant 8ablish was a fully vegan dining room that anchored the Minami-Aoyama food scene for more than two decades, growing out of Cafe Eight, the pioneering vegan cafe that opened nearby in 2000. Two minutes from Omotesando Station's B1/B2 exits, it built its name on Mediterranean-leaning plant-based cooking -- tempeh souvlaki skewers with grilled vegetables and pita, a tempeh cutlet in pomodoro sauce, nut-cheese toast piled with jackfruit -- served as part of multi-course lunch and dinner sets. The room itself read more like a friend's dinner table than a restaurant: charcoal walls, warm pendant lighting, a shared communal table, and a wine list that leaned French (with a few Greek bottles) through dinner service that ran until 9:30pm most nights.
8ablish left this Aoyama address in November 2023, relocating to a larger space inside the newly opened Azabudai Hills complex in Toranomon, where it kept serving vegan dishes built around organic produce from Ome Farm alongside a menu of vegan sweets -- lemon rare cheesecake, homemade ice cream, gluten-free muffins. That chapter has since closed too: 8ablish's own announcement confirms its Tokyo operations ended on June 1, 2026, with the team relocating to Imizu City in Toyama Prefecture, where a small shop, 8ablish TOYAMA, has since opened for eat-in and takeout vegan ice cream (cake and cookie production is on hold until March 2027).
Practical note: there is no 8ablish location left in Tokyo as of this writing -- don't plan a trip to either the old Minami-Aoyama or the Azabudai Hills address. If you're chasing the brand specifically, the only storefront still running is in Toyama; for the same style of vegan Mediterranean cooking in Tokyo, look to the city's other plant-based kitchens instead.
✓ Last verified Jul 2026
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