BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is a big casual-dining chain built around deep-dish pizza and craft beer, and the long menu works in your favor if you don’t eat meat. Between vegetarian pizzas, hearty salads, a vegan soup, and a full row of plant-based sides, there’s enough here for a real meal.

What to order at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

Order the Cheese, Margherita Fresca, or Mediterranean pizza straight off the menu, all vegetarian as built, or go fully vegan with a cheeseless tavern-cut pizza loaded with vegetables. The Vegan Lentil with Ancient Grains soup is a rare find, genuinely plant-based rather than just dairy-free by accident. Share the avocado egg rolls or spinach and artichoke dip to start, then round things out with fries, roasted vegetables, or the House Salad without cheese or croutons. The Chips, Housemade Guacamole & Salsa combo is another easy vegan starter to add to the table.

What to watch out for

BJ’s doesn’t carry a veggie burger or plant-based patty, so the build-your-own-protein move that works at a lot of chains isn’t available here. The avocado egg rolls contain cream cheese, and the Broccoli Cheddar and Tuscan Tomato Bisque soups both carry dairy, so they’re vegetarian but not vegan. Mozzarella sticks, cheese curds, and the Pizookie dessert all include dairy too, with egg in the Pizookie as well, so save those for vegetarians rather than vegans at the table.