Mellow Mushroom is one of the most innovative pizza restaurant chains. It was established in 1974 in Atlanta, and there are more than 160 stores nationwide. However, the key question is: does this innovative approach include a plant-based diet? Well, you will like the answer for sure! Mellow Mushroom has a simple vegan pizza without cheese and an extraordinary vegan pizza with plant-based cheese and other vegan stuff. Let’s check the details!
Vegan pizza at Mellow Mushroom
Let’s start with the best thing: the 100 % satisfying plant-based pizza.
Choose your Crust
You can choose between
- regular crust, and
- mellow thin-crust
which is a little bit less calorie.
Choose your base
Two vegan options available at Mellow Mushroom there:
- Red sauce, and
- Oil & garlic.
Also, you can order without a base, but I wouldn’t recommend that.
Cheese
Luckily, Mellow Mushroom has vegan cheese, which is added automatically. You can exclude it if you would like it with fewer calories.
Vegan toppings
You can add the following plant-based toppings to your vegan pizza at Mellow Mushroom:
- Tempeh,
- extra cheese,
- mushroom and portobello mushroom,
- onions,
- black olives,
- spinach,
- banana peppers,
- fresh basil,
- garlic,
- roasted tomatoes,
- Roma tomatoes,
- roasted red peppers,
- cucumbers,
- artichoke,
- pepperoncini,
- green peppers,
- pineapple, and
- jalapenos.
As you can see, there are even vegan protein options at Mellow Mushroom. Tempeh is just great!
Other options
Also, there are some other customisable options:
- extra sauce,
- double cut,
- crispy,
- light sauce,
- light bake,
- light cheese,
- no sauce.
This sounds so great!
Vegan Veg-out pizza
Mellow Mushroom offers one if you don’t want to make your own vegan pizza. You can order it in three sizes and choose between two crusts. It comes with red sauce layered with dairy-free cheese, spinach, green peppers, sliced mushrooms, sweet onions, black olives and Roma tomatoes.
Other vegan items at Mellow Mushroom
Furthermore, there are good vegan options besides pizza at Mellow Mushroom.
Vegan enlightened spinach salad
This super green and healthy salad is tasty and flavourful, thanks to fresh spinach, dried cherries, diced apples, and house-made glazed pecans.
Vegan Greek salad
It is also a very healthy vegan option at Mellow Mushroom. The salad combines romaine and iceberg lettuce tossed with shredded carrots and red cabbage. It is topped with sweet onions, cucumbers, green peppers, mushrooms, Roma tomatoes, pepperoncini, banana peppers, and Kalamata olives.
Vegan avocado hoagie
This is a great quick-and-grab option that is also vegan. The sandwich comes with lettuce, Follow Your Heart Dairy-Free Cheese, Roma tomatoes, and sweet onions, topped with avocado slices seasoned in lemon juice, kosher salt, and black pepper.
Vegan tempeh hoagie
This one is even better than an avocado hoagie. Okay, I might be a bit one-sided since tempeh is one of my favourite plant-based proteins. So it is a sandwich with tempeh, lettuce, Roma tomatoes, and melted Follow Your Heart Dairy Free Cheese, finished with grilled onions, mushrooms, and green peppers.
Vegan pretzels
Classic dough without dairy and eggs with salt served with traditional yellow mustard. A vegan side, which is always welcome.
Is there anything else?
There are some vegan side options, such as Spud Puppies and chips. Mellow Mushroom offers only regular soft drinks, iced tea, and lemonades—nothing extraordinary. It also lacks vegan desserts. Cinnamon sugar and honey pretzels are technically free from animal ingredients; however, I am not sure if they count honey as an animal ingredient, so I can be sure that it is vegan.
Mellow Mushroom as a vegan in a nutshell
For me, Mellow Mushroom is an extraordinary choice for vegans. It offers vegan pizza with real vegan protein and dairy-free cheese. Do we need anything else? Nope. Still, the restaurant chain offers some pretty good salad and hoagie options. However, there is no sweetness at the restaurant chain, which doesn’t contain eggs or dairy. But I can live with it.
