How to Order Vegan Options at Panera Bread in 2025
Panera Bread is an American restaurant chain most known for its freshly baked bread, also serving sandwiches, salads, and more. While I wrote this article, I learned that “Panera” is related to a Latin word for “breadbasket,” which is fitting since the chain offers a basket’s worth of menu items that are vegan or can be made vegan. With over 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada, it’s a great spot to grab a quick breakfast or lunch. Let’s explore all the vegan options at Panera Bread in 2025 and items that can be made vegan with a few easy changes.
Vegan Breakfast Options at Panera
Panera offers vegan breakfast items until 10:30 a.m., including the Steel Cut Oatmeal with Strawberries & Pecans, Classic Avo Toast, and Seasonal Fruit Cup.
Are Panera Bagels Vegan?
If you’re like me and you often sleep in and miss breakfast hours, you’re in luck because Panera serves bagels all day. Panera offers several vegan bagels, including Blueberry, Everything, Multigrain Bagel Flat, Plain, and Sesame. Ask for hummus or avocado to add to your bagel for a hearty meal.
Panera Breads That Are Vegan
Most of the breads at Panera are vegan. The vegan breads include:
- Artisan Ciabatta
- Black Pepper Focaccia
- Country Rustic Sourdough
- French Baguette
- Sourdough Bread Bowl
- Whole Grain Lavash Wrap
Vegan Salads at Panera
Several salads at Panera can be made vegan with a few tweaks.
If you order the Asian Chicken Sesame Salad without the chicken, it’s vegan. The salad features greens, almonds, sesame seeds, wonton strips, and a vegan Asian Sesame Vinaigrette.
If you order the Mediterranean Greens with Grains Salad without the feta, it’s vegan. It’s a mix of farro and rice blend, greens and veggies, hummus, Shawarma seasoning, and a vegan Greek dressing.
Forget Feta: Feta is typically made from milk stolen from mother sheep. Sheep are intelligent, social, emotional beings who feel love, joy, and pain, just as cats and dogs do. But sheep used for their milk suffer from confinement, pain, and stress. Workers separate mothers from their lambs shortly after birth and slaughter them when their milk production declines. Opt for vegan feta products instead!
Salad Dressings That Are Vegan at Panera
- Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Greek
- White Balsamic Apple Flavored Vinaigrette
- Asian Sesame Vinaigrette
Vegan Drinks at Panera
Panera serves an assortment of coffee, tea, and flavored drinks and even offers a monthly subscription service called the Sip Club, which provides members with unlimited drinks all month! The following items on its drink menu are vegan:
- Agave Lemonade
- Americano
- Blueberry Lavender Lemonade
- Citrus Punch
- Coffee (Hot or Iced)
- Hot Tea
- Iced Teas (Unsweetened or Sweetened)
- Passion Papaya Naturally Flavored Green Tea
- Pomegranate Hibiscus Herbal Tea Infusion
In 2020, following talks with PETA, Panera dropped the vegan milk surcharge on its coffee drinks! Help us urge Dunkin’ to do the same.
For a kind and dairy-free smoothie, Panera’s Tropical Green Smoothie is vegan!
Drop Dairy: On dairy farms, workers separate calves from their mothers shortly after birth—a routine horror and a cruel “necessity” for humans to steal milk that was never meant for them. The mother-calf bond is strong, and cows will cry out, search for their babies, and even chase after the vehicles that take them away.
Vegan Sandwiches at Panera
Panera’s Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich can be made vegan if you order it without the feta and replace the tomato basil bread with one of the vegan breads (see list above).
Other Chains Like Panera With Vegan Options
Restaurant chains like Panera Bread are taking notice that more people than ever are choosing vegan options to take action against cruelty to animals and the climate crisis.
Check out our guide to restaurants offering vegan-friendly menus and our list of the best vegan-friendly restaurants to eat with non-vegans.
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