Sacred food

Explore prasāda, devotional cooking and the culture of offering food with love.

• Govinda's Soho

  A welcoming Soho dining room serving vegetarian and vegan prasadam in simple, generous plates. The food is cooked with devotion and offered to Lord Govinda before reaching the counter.

• Govinda's Holborn

  The younger sister of Govinda's Soho, offering the same tradition of food prepared with care and offered to Krishna. It is a peaceful place for a thali, curry or sweet away from the busiest West End streets.

• Govinda's Dublin

  A warm city-centre canteen with changing curries, dhal, rice, paneer and vegan dishes prepared fresh each day. The atmosphere is humble and unhurried, with hearty plates made for everyday nourishment.

• Govinda's Restaurant Radhadesh

  The public restaurant of the Radhadesh spiritual community, set among wooded hills beside its château temple. Visitors can sit down for vegetarian thalis, samosas, drinks and sweets before or after exploring the estate.

• Radhadesh Bakery

  Radhadesh's public bakery offers breads, biscuits, baklava and other handmade treats within the château community. It is a gentle stop for something sweet, a warm drink and a quiet moment near the temple.

• Govinda Restaurant Budapest

  This established Budapest Govinda's serves vegetarian prasadam in an easygoing city-centre setting. Expect filling soups, grain dishes, vegetable preparations and traditional Indian-inspired plates.

• Govinda Vega Corner

  A compact Govinda's lunch spot close to Budapest's university quarter. The counter focuses on affordable vegetarian plates, soups and sweets served without fuss.

• Govinda Copenhagen

  A small vegetarian and vegan restaurant near the lakes and Forum metro station. Its changing Indian-inspired dishes are cooked with a spirit of care, simplicity and conscious living.

• Govinda's Swansea

  A community prasadam gathering run by the local Hare Krishna centre, welcoming newcomers as well as regular devotees. Meals are shared in a relaxed setting where food, mantra and friendship naturally meet.

• Govinda Étterem Krishna Valley

  The visitor restaurant of Hungary's Krishna Valley eco-village, surrounded by gardens, farmland and temple life. Its vegetarian dishes offer travellers a direct taste of the community's devotional and land-conscious way of living.

• Govinda's at Goloka Ecofarm

  A devotee-run Govinda's connected with Goloka Ecofarm in the green hills of northern Italy. It brings offered vegetarian cooking into a rural setting shaped by bhakti, community and care for the land.

• Centre de Bhakti Yoga Brussels

  A city bhakti centre where Sunday gatherings bring together mantra meditation, spiritual discussion and prasadam. The shared meal is part of an open programme designed to make first visits feel natural and unpressured.

• ISKCON Amsterdam Sunday Love Feast

  Amsterdam's Hare Krishna community opens its Sunday programme to visitors for chanting, philosophy and a generous prasadam meal. It is an easy doorway into temple life for people arriving alone or for the first time.

• Bhakti Centre Eindhoven

  An ISKCON-affiliated community centre gathering for kirtan, teachings and vegetarian prasadam. The programme is friendly to newcomers and gives the shared meal a central place in the afternoon.

• Goloka Dhama

  A rural bhakti community in Germany's Hunsrück region, hosting retreats, festivals and devotional gatherings. Public event tickets commonly include vegetarian prasadam shared among guests and resident devotees.

• Govinda's Natural Foods Buffet

  A long-loved vegetarian buffet within the ISKCON Tucson grounds, serving prasadam in colourful dining rooms and a peaceful courtyard. The menu moves between Indian preparations, salads, soups and familiar comfort food.

• Govinda's Vegetarian Cuisine

  Houston's Govinda's serves a wide vegetarian buffet beside the Hare Krishna temple and cultural centre. Fresh curries, rice, breads, salads and sweets form an abundant meal offered in a calm, family-friendly room.

• Govinda's Toronto

  Located inside the ISKCON Toronto building, this restaurant serves vegetarian and vegan meals whose proceeds support the temple. Its thalis, curries, snacks and sweets offer a quiet pause from the streets of Yorkville.

• Govinda's Ottawa

  Operating on a non-profit basis, Govinda's is one of Ottawa's longest-standing vegetarian places. Its compact evening service offers freshly prepared meals at a modest price, with dine-in and takeaway options.

• Govinda's Montreal

  A vegetarian and vegan dining room connected with Montreal's Hare Krishna community. It serves approachable plates, snacks and sweets in a setting where the temple's devotional life is close at hand.

• Govinda's Los Angeles

  The public restaurant of ISKCON Los Angeles, beside the New Dvaraka temple in Culver City. It serves a changing vegetarian buffet, salad bar and sweets within one of North America's historic Hare Krishna communities.

• Kalachandji's

  Set beside the Radha-Kalachandji temple, this long-running restaurant opens onto a leafy courtyard with fountains and old brick walls. Its buffet blends Indian dishes, soups, vegetables, breads and desserts into an unhurried communal meal.

• Govinda's Cafe Las Vegas

  A devotee-run vegetarian cafe serving homestyle Indian dishes in the southern part of Las Vegas. It offers a calm, alcohol-free meal far from the noise and bright lights of the resort corridor.

• Divya's Kitchen

  Divya Alter's plant-based restaurant brings Ayurvedic care and a devotional cooking tradition to New York's East Village. Familiar dishes are gently reshaped around digestion, season and balance, then served in a graceful but relaxed room.

• Govinda's Québec

  Opened with the city's new ISKCON centre, Govinda's brings offered vegetarian food into a welcoming community space. The restaurant is intended as both an everyday dining place and a gentle introduction to bhakti culture.

• Krishna Lunch at Krishna House

  A Gainesville tradition since 1971, serving inexpensive vegetarian prasadam with rice, a changing main dish, salad and its much-loved dressing. The Krishna House service keeps the meal available even when arrangements on the university campus change.

• Govinda's at New Vrindaban

  The public restaurant of New Vrindaban, a rural Hare Krishna pilgrimage community in West Virginia's wooded hills. Visitors can eat vegetarian prasadam close to the temple, Palace of Gold, gardens and cow sanctuary.

• ISKCON New York Sunday Love Feast

  The Brooklyn temple welcomes visitors for a Sunday programme of kirtan, spiritual discussion and a shared vegetarian feast. It carries forward the open-house tradition begun in New York during the earliest years of the Hare Krishna movement.

• Bhakti Center

  An urban spiritual centre offering kirtan, study, yoga and public celebrations in the East Village. Major bhakti festivals conclude with lovingly prepared prasadam shared among regulars and first-time guests.

• Govinda's Restaurant ISKCON Juhu

  The flagship restaurant within Mumbai's landmark ISKCON Juhu complex serves an extensive range of Indian and international vegetarian dishes. Everything served is first offered to Krishna, making the meal part of the temple's living devotional culture.

• Govinda's East of Kailash

  Set inside the ISKCON East of Kailash complex, Govinda's serves a wide sattvic vegetarian spread in a comfortable dining room. Its food is prepared according to devotional standards and offered before service.

• Govinda's Dwarka

  The public restaurant at ISKCON Dwarka offers Indian, regional and international vegetarian cooking prepared without onion or garlic. The meal is served as prasadam within one of western Delhi's major bhakti centres.

• The Higher Taste

  ISKCON Bangalore's signature restaurant serves a broad sattvic menu within the Hare Krishna Hill temple complex. Traditional Indian flavours are presented with care while remaining rooted in the principle that food is first an offering.

• Govinda's Restaurant Vrindavan

  Located at the Krishna-Balaram Guesthouse, Govinda's serves pilgrims close to one of Vrindavan's most visited temples. Its varied vegetarian menu offers a comfortable place to pause between darshan, kirtan and walks through the sacred town.

• Govinda's Restaurant Mayapur

  Mayapur's Govinda's serves residents and pilgrims inside ISKCON's international spiritual campus. The menu brings together Indian and international vegetarian dishes in a place where people from many cultures gather around prasadam.

• Govinda's ISKCON Pune

  The restaurant at Pune's New Vedic Cultural Centre serves sattvic vegetarian dishes within a large and active temple complex. It is a comfortable stop for families, pilgrims and visitors seeking a full offered meal.

• Govinda's ISKCON Ravet

  Govinda's at ISKCON Ravet serves sattvic vegetarian food beside the Sri Govind Dham temple. Its menu gives local families and visitors a straightforward place to share prasadam after worship or an evening programme.

• Govinda's Minto Park

  The Minto Park branch is closely woven into the life of ISKCON Kolkata's Albert Road temple. It serves sattvic vegetarian cooking in the city where the Hare Krishna movement's founder was born.

• Govinda's Ballygunge

  This Ballygunge branch carries ISKCON Kolkata's prasadam cooking into a residential part of the city. Guests can settle in for vegetarian Indian dishes prepared according to sattvic devotional standards.

• Govinda's International Ahmedabad

  A recently opened Govinda's within the ISKCON Ahmedabad complex on the S.G. Highway. It offers visitors a full vegetarian prasadam meal alongside the temple's worship and cultural programmes.

• Govinda's ISKCON Gurugram

  The Gurugram temple's Govinda's prepares vegetarian food for restaurant guests, gatherings and catered events. Its cooking follows the temple's sattvic standards and is offered before being served.

• ISKCON Bangkok Sunday Feast

  Bangkok's welcomes the public for a weekly evening of chanting, philosophy and vegetarian prasadam. The shared feast offers a quiet and friendly contrast to the speed of the surrounding city.

• Govinda's Restaurant Ao Nang

  A pure vegetarian restaurant near the sea, founded through its owners' connection with the Hare Krishna movement. The changing selection moves between Indian and Asian dishes, with many vegan choices and a gentle devotional spirit.

• Govinda's Sydney

  A Darlinghurst legend: an all-you-can-eat vegetarian feast followed, if you wish, by a film in the cushioned movie room upstairs. The not-for-profit restaurant has shared devotional cooking with Sydney for more than four decades.

• Gopal's Pure Vegetarian Restaurant

  Upstairs on Swanston Street, Gopal's serves generous meal deals, salads, curries, pies and sweets in a relaxed dining room. Everything is made in-house and offered with devotion to Lord Krishna.

• Crossways

  A central Melbourne institution serving low-cost, all-you-can-eat vegetarian and vegan meals from late morning onward. Its simple dining room keeps the focus on warm food, generous portions and the Hare Krishna spirit of feeding everyone.

• Govinda's Perth

  Perth's Govinda's carries a Hare Krishna restaurant tradition in the city that reaches back to the 1980s. Its vegetarian and vegan dishes are cooked with devotion and sanctified through prayer before service.

• Hare Krishna Food for Life Melbourne

  The Albert Park temple opens its prasadam hall to the public for free breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. The meals are served as a direct act of hospitality, with newcomers welcomed without needing to attend a ceremony.

• Kadamba Kafe

  A bright cafe on the ground floor of the Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir in Downtown Brooklyn, opened as part of the temple's renewal and named in memory of Kadamba Kanana Swami. The kitchen is strictly plant-forward and cooks without onion or garlic, turning…

• Govinda's Kitchen

  A nonprofit temple kitchen that began in the basement of the Brooklyn Hare Krishna temple in 2019 and now feeds several hundred people a week. Cooking is sattvic, with no meat, fish, eggs, onion or garlic, the menu rotates daily, and every dish is offered…

• Doughnut Plant

  Mark Isreal's Lower East Side bakery grew out of his grandfather's doughnut recipe and his own practice of Krishna consciousness. Everything is made from scratch, without eggs or preservatives, and the deities are worshipped on the premises with the doughnuts…

• Mohini

  A calm vegetarian and vegan restaurant cooking by Ayurvedic principles since 2010, with fully organic ingredients from Swiss farms. There is one fresh lunch menu each day, with salad, dessert and tea, and gluten-free or lactose-free on request.

• Govinda's Cardiff

  A vegetarian café and events space in the Capitol Centre, run by Cardiff's Hare Krishna community. Each dish is cooked as an offering first and served second, as prasadam: thalis, curry and dal, chaat bowls, naan wraps and home-made chai.

• Góvinda Prague

  A simple lunch restaurant in the New Town, open since 1995 and listed among ISKCON's centres. There is a changing daily menu, with many vegan dishes, in a large or small portion.

• Góvinda Bratislava

  Run by the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) since 2004, Góvinda cooks fresh sattvic food every day, without onion or garlic, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes. Lunch is all you can eat.

• Radha Govinda

  A self-service vegetarian and vegan buffet in Šiška, next door to the Krishna consciousness community at Žibertova 27. You pay by weight, choosing from hot dishes, a salad bar and home-made desserts that change through the week.

• Govinda's Buffet Spanish Fork

  The buffet inside the Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The temple says the food is blessed by Lord Krishna. It is vegetarian with vegan options, and the meal can be paired with a temple tour.

• ISKCON Baltimore Sunday Feast

  Every Sunday ISKCON Baltimore holds an open programme of kirtan and a talk, followed by a vegetarian prasadam feast for everyone who comes.

• Higher Taste Hare Krishna Restaurant

  A Hare Krishna restaurant that offers its food to Lord Krishna before serving it. Fully vegetarian, with no meat, fish or egg, and plenty of vegan Indian dishes.

• Hare Krishna Auckland Sunday Feast

  The Sri Sri Radha-Giridhari temple in Kumeū, north-west of Auckland, holds a free Sunday Feast open to everyone, with arati and a vegetarian prasadam meal. Several hundred people come most weeks.

• Govinda's Shuddha Sattva

  The restaurant of ISKCON Chennai at Hare Krishna Land. Every dish is first offered to Lord Krishna and served as prasadam, cooked without onion or garlic.

• Govinda's ISKCON Chowpatty

  On the ground floor of the Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Govinda's offers its food to the Lord before serving it, without onion or garlic. Dine in, take away or order delivery across South Mumbai. The bakery is eggless.

• Govinda's ISKCON Jaipur

  At ISKCON Jaipur's Sri Sri Giridhari Dauji temple in Dholai, devotee cooks prepare the meals as prasadam, without onion or garlic. The restaurant has been serving for about fourteen years.

• Govinda's ISKCON Patna

  Inside ISKCON Patna's Golok Dham temple on Buddh Marg, meals are first offered to the deities and served as sattvic prasadam, from breakfast to dinner.

• Govindas Burleigh Heads

  Opened by volunteers in 2009, Govindas serves food offered daily as prasadam, in the Hare Krishna kitchen tradition. Choose up to four dishes or salads from the counter, with many vegan and gluten-free choices.

• Govindas Coolangatta

  The second Govindas, opened in 2019, with the same pure vegetarian counter as Burleigh Heads: food offered daily as prasadam, with vegan and gluten-free choices.

• Govinda Milan

  A Hare Krishna restaurant in central Milan, with a small temple to Krishna inside. The food is served as prasadam, with thalis that change every day.

• Góvinda Palmovka

  One of Prague's first vegetarian restaurants, listed by ISKCON Czech Republic among its own. Many ingredients come from the movement's farm, Krišnův Dvůr, and the four-course daily menu is all you can eat, with home-made paneer.

• Hare Krishna Helsinki Sunday Feast

  The Krishna temple in the old Malminkylä manor holds a Sunday festival open to everyone, ending in a vegetarian meal. The temple says the food is blessed by Krishna before it is eaten.

• Govinda's Durban

  Run by the Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple of Understanding in Chatsworth, Govinda's serves vegetarian meals and takeaway inside the ISKCON temple complex. The day's menu is shared on the temple's WhatsApp channel.

• Govinda's Café Cape Town

  ISKCON Cape Town's café cooks vegetarian and vegan food without onion or garlic, prepared with love and offered first. It sits behind the temple, opposite Rondebosch station.

• Govinda's Buffet Honolulu

  Run by ISKCON Hawaii at the temple since 1991, Govinda's serves sanctified vegetarian food, mostly vegan, as a pay-by-weight buffet. You can sit indoors or outside under a giant banyan tree.

• Govindas Kingscliff

  The third Govindas, on Kingscliff's beachfront strip, with the same food offered daily as prasadam as Burleigh Heads and Coolangatta. Rice with your choice of dishes, and many vegan and gluten-free options.

• Govinda's ISKCON Mira Road

  At ISKCON Mira Road's Sri Sri Radha Giridhari temple, everything served is first offered to Lord Krishna and cooked without onion or garlic. The restaurant seats about a hundred and does takeaway too.

• Govinda's ISKCON Pandharpur

  The restaurant of ISKCON's Sri Sri Radha Pandharinath temple at Hare Krishna Dham, where everything served is first offered to Lord Krishna. It seats 275, with buffets at lunch and dinner.

• Govinda's ISKCON Tirupati

  At ISKCON Tirupati's Hare Krishna Land, everything served is first offered to Lord Krishna. There is an open-air section and an air-conditioned hall, with a buffet on weekend evenings.

• Govindas ISKCON Noida

  The restaurant inside ISKCON Noida serves sattvic vegetarian food prepared with devotion and offered to the Lord first, with thalis, a buffet and a special thali on Ekadashi.

• Govinda's ISKCON Ujjain

  Govinda's sits opposite ISKCON Ujjain's temple at Hare Krishna Land and serves pure vegetarian, sanctified food, cooked without onion or garlic. It also hosts birthdays and special occasions.

• Govinda's ISKCON Raipur

  On ISKCON Raipur's temple campus, Govinda's serves food offered to Lord Krishna, cooked without onion or garlic: thalis, South Indian dishes and more.

• Govinda's, Govardhan Ecovillage

  The restaurant of Govardhan Ecovillage, ISKCON's eco-community in the hills north of Mumbai, serves sattvic prasadam for breakfast, lunch and dinner, cooked without onion or garlic. At weekends there is a regional Madan Mohan thali.

• Govardhan Annakshetra

  Govardhan Ecovillage's free prasadam hall serves a full lunch to whoever comes, and khichadi through most of the day. It suits day visitors on the free tour of the Ecovillage.

• Govinda's ISKCON Kharghar

  On the ground floor of the Sri Sri Radha Madanmohanji temple in Kharghar, opened in January 2025, each meal is offered to Lord Krishna. The menu runs from thalis and sweets to Italian, Mexican and Thai.

• Radharani's Café, Bhaktivedanta Manor

  The café at Bhaktivedanta Manor, ISKCON's main temple in Britain, serves vegetarian and vegan snacks, meals and bakes, with the temple room and the cow sanctuary a few steps away.

• Govindas Göteborg

  A Hare Krishna lunch restaurant in the same building as Gothenburg's temple, which guests are invited to visit. One dish of the day with bread, salad, rice, papadam and lassi, as much as you like, with a vegan version of every dish.

• Govindas Lund

  Listed among ISKCON's centres, Govindas Lund serves a fixed daily lunch with soup, salad, bread and tea, cooked without onion or garlic, with free refills.

• Comedor del Templo, ISKCON Barcelona

  Upstairs in Barcelona's Hare Krishna temple, every dish is offered to Krishna before it is served: a vegetarian and vegan lunch with salad bar, soup, main course, dessert, tea and bread.

• Govinda's Tenerife

  ISKCON Tenerife's restaurant serves prasadam lunches, with a temple on site and a free Sunday feast at 18:00. Beside the daily menu there are falafel, pizza, lasagne, cakes and ice cream, and everything can be made vegan.

• O Oriente no Porto

  The restaurant of ISKCON Porto's centre, which also holds a temple, serves a fully vegan menu of the day with soup, main course, dessert and tea, with a terrace looking over the Douro.

• Govinda Debrecen

  Run by members of Debrecen's Krishna-conscious community, Govinda serves a vegetarian Indian menu that changes every day, with vegan choices, to eat in, take away or have delivered.

• Radharanė

  Listed among ISKCON's centres, Radharanė is a calm vegetarian restaurant with vegan choices and generous portions, and a lunch offer every working day.

• Rāma

  In the same building as the Riga Hare Krishna temple, Rāma has served sattvic vegetarian food for many years, without onion or garlic: sabji with paneer, kitchari, sweets and lassi.

• Govinda's ISKCON Muskoka

  Inside the Muskoka Krishna Cultural Centre, the same kitchen cooks for the deities, the Sunday Feast and this 32-seat restaurant, modelled on Govinda's at ISKCON Toronto.

• Krishna Lunch So Cal

  A food truck in Westwood Village that serves meals sanctified by offering them to Krishna, five days a week, at a student price.

• ISKCON Chicago Sunday Feast

  Every Sunday evening ISKCON Chicago holds its temple programme and gives everyone a free vegetarian feast, served in boxes to take away.

• Govinda's Adelaide

  Run by ISKCON Adelaide inside its temple, Govinda's serves an all-you-can-eat vegetarian plate in the evenings, cooked without onion or garlic, to eat in or take away.

• Govinda's Brisbane

  ISKCON Brisbane's restaurant in the city centre serves a karma-free vegetarian lunch, with koftas and vegan curries, and is busy at lunchtime.

• ISKCON Brisbane Saturday Feast

  Every Saturday the Sri Sri Gaura Nitai temple in Darra holds kirtan, a class and arati, followed by a prasadam feast for everyone.

• ISKCON Melbourne Sunday Feast

  Melbourne's Hare Krishna temple in Albert Park gives free sanctified meals, all vegetarian or vegan, at its Sunday Feast, open to everyone.

• ISKCON Sydney Sunday Feast

  The Sri Sri Radha Gopinath temple in North Sydney serves more than 350 sanctified vegetarian meals at its Sunday Feast, and everyone is welcome.

• Govinda's Snack Bar, ISKCON Punjabi Bagh

  At ISKCON Punjabi Bagh, everything Govinda's serves is first offered to Lord Krishna: around 160 sweets, savouries, cakes, ice creams and juices.

• Govinda's Kampala

  Downstairs from the ISKCON Kampala temple in Nakasero, Govinda's cooks Indian vegetarian food without onion or garlic, with vegan choices and an all-you-can-eat thali at weekends.