What Are the Vegan Options at Barro’s Pizza?

Barro’s Pizza is a family-owned Arizona chain, and it publishes something almost no pizza chain this size bothers with: a nutritional guide in which every single row carries a Vegan Yes/No column set by Barro’s itself.

Answer: Yes, and more than we previously said. Barro’s marks 136 rows of its own guide Vegan = Yes, including both gluten-free crusts and a dairy-free cheese. It also marks Vegan = No on four things this page used to recommend — one of which was salami.

This page was rewritten on 31 July 2026 against Barro’s own current guide. It previously recommended salami as a vegan pizza topping, and concluded that Barro’s “does not include vegan cheese” when Barro’s sells one. Full corrections at the end.

The Source

Barro’s Nutritional Guide with Ingredients, 12 pages, at cms.barrospizza.com (fetched 31 July 2026). The PDF’s internal title is “Barro’s Nutritional Guide with Ingredients Jan 2026 V2” and page 1 reads “Printed on: 1/15/26” — this is a current document, not an archived one. Item names, prices and the topping list come from Barro’s general menu, fetched the same day.

The columns, left to right after the nutrition figures, are: Allergen Statement, Contains Beef, Contains Pork, Contains Shellfish, and Vegan. Cell values in the Vegan column are a literal Yes or No (a couple render as YES).

Two Warnings About This Document

First: the guide has no legend. No footnotes, no prose, nothing. Barro’s never defines what it means by “Vegan,” and in particular never says whether the designation accounts for shared equipment. Pair every Yes with Barro’s own cross-contamination sentence, below.

Second: Barro’s Contains Beef / Contains Pork / Contains Shellfish columns are unreliable. Every Pizza, BYO Topping, Bacon row reads Contains Pork = No, and every Salami row reads Contains Beef = No and Contains Pork = No. That is Barro’s error, confirmed against rendered images of the pages, and it means those three columns cannot be relied on. The Vegan column was correct in every case we checked, including on bacon and salami — which is exactly why it is the column worth reading.

Barro’s Own Disclaimers

“While we attempt to identify ingredients that may cause allergic reactions for those with food allergies, potential allergens are present in our kitchen and there is a risk of cross-contamination.”

“Please note some items may not be available at every Barro’s location. Choose your preferred location to view their full menu.”

Barro’s Does Sell a Vegan Cheese — Under Two Different Names

This is the headline correction, and it is a naming trap that is easy to fall into.

On the menu, the custom topping is listed as “Dairy-Free Mozzarella (Vegan)**”. In the nutritional guide, the word “Dairy” does not appear once in all twelve pages. The same product is listed there as Pizza, BYO Topping, Vegan Cheese, in seven size variants, and every one of them is marked Vegan = Yes, with the allergen statement “Contains Tree Nuts (coconut)”.

Search the guide for “dairy-free” and you conclude Barro’s doesn’t have one. It does. Two caveats travel with it:

• It declares tree nuts (coconut). That is Barro’s own wording, quoted as published.
• The ** on the menu is the “not available at every location” footnote. Barro’s attaches it to the vegan cheese specifically. Check before you plan a trip around it.

The Gluten-Free Crusts Are Marked Vegan

The previous version of this page said: “there are no gluten-free pizzas that are also vegan-friendly. Since gluten-free pizzas are made with eggs, they are definitely not good for your vegan plate.” It cited Barro’s nutritional guide while saying it. The guide says the opposite:

• Pizza, Crust Gluten Free Thick — Allergen Statement blank, Vegan = YES
• Pizza, Crust Gluten Free Thin — Allergen Statement blank, Vegan = YES

Neither declares egg. And Barro’s carries Vegan = Yes rows on the GF crusts for pizza sauce, BBQ sauce, black olive, garlic, green olive, green pepper, jalapeño, mushrooms, onions, pepperoncini, pineapple, tomato and vegan cheese — so a gluten-free crust with sauce, vegetables and dairy-free mozzarella is an entirely Vegan = Yes build in Barro’s own guide.

Do not merge this with the sub roll. Sub Roll, Gluten Free is itself marked Vegan = Yes with no allergens — but every gluten-free sub built on it declares Egg and Milk (for example Sub, Club on GF Sub Roll — Contains Egg, Milk, Soy). The GF pizza crust and the GF sub are different products with different answers.

What Barro’s Marks Vegan = Yes

136 rows in total. Condensed:

• Crusts — both gluten-free crusts (no allergens); the BYO wheat crusts in every size (Wheat, “may also contain Gluten”)
• Pizza sauces — Pizza sauce and BBQ sauce in every size including both GF crusts (no allergens); Teriyaki (Soy, Sesame, Wheat)
• Pizza toppings — Black Olive, Garlic, Green Olive, Green Pepper, Jalapeño, Mushrooms, Onions, Pepperoncini, Pineapple, Tomato (no allergens), and Vegan Cheese (tree nuts/coconut)
• Dipping sauces (3 oz) — BBQ, Mango Habanero, Marinara, Pizza (no allergens); Teriyaki (Soy, Sesame, Wheat)
• Dressings — Balsamic Vinaigrette and Italian, both in the 3 oz and salad-bar sizes (Contains Soy)
• Salad bar — Black Olives, Broccoli Florets, Carrots, Cucumber, Green Peppers, Iceberg Lettuce, Lemon, Mushrooms, Pineapple, Tomato, Yellow Onion (no allergens)
• Sides and dessert — Chips (no allergens); Cinnamon Bread Sticks (Soy, Wheat) — the only dessert Barro’s marks vegan
• Kids — Apple Juice (no allergens); Kids Meal Spaghetti (Wheat)

What This Page Previously Recommended That Barro’s Marks Vegan = No

• Pizza, BYO Topping, Salami — Vegan = No on all seven size rows. It is cured meat, and it was sitting in a bulleted list headed “the Bring-Your-Own-type pizzas you can play with… to be suitable for your vegan diet.” This was the worst error on the page.
• Sauce, Honey BBQ — Vegan = No
• Sauce, Honey Hot — Vegan = No
• “Sauce, Garlic” — no such row exists. The garlic dipping sauce is Sauce, Garlic Parmesan: Vegan = No, Contains Milk, Soy. (A BYO garlic topping — fresh garlic on a pizza — is a different thing and is marked Vegan = Yes.)
• Dressing, Poppy Seed — Vegan = No, Contains Egg, Milk, Soy.

Barro’s Trap List

Items whose names invite the wrong guess. All are Vegan = No:

• Veggie Salad (large and small), Garden Salad, Simple Salad — all declare Milk and Wheat
• Salad Bar Croutons — Milk, Wheat
• Salad Bar Dressing, Honey Mustard — Egg, Milk
• Dressing, 1000 Island — Egg, Soy
• Bread Sticks (no sauce) and Garlic Bread — Milk, Soy, Wheat
• BYO Sauce, Spicy BBQ and Hot Wing — Milk, Soy
• Sauce Sweet Red Chili / Mild / Medium / Hot / Fire — Milk, Soy
• Pizza, White — Milk. Barro’s own description: “Brushed with Oil, Fresh Garlic, Italian Seasoning, Parmesan, Mozzarella, Ricotta Cheese & Tomato.”
• BYO Topping, Anchovy — Fish, Soy

And the reverse trap: Salad Bar, Bacon Topping and Salad Bar, Pepperoni carry no allergen statement at all — because meat is not an allergen. Barro’s correctly marks both Vegan = No. A blank allergen cell has never been a vegan verdict; on this menu the Vegan column is the only thing that answers the question.

What Barro’s Does Not Cover

The guide is not a complete mirror of the menu, and gaps are gaps — not permissions.

• Spinach, Feta Cheese and White Sauce are menu toppings with no row in the guide. Unverifiable.
• The Vegetarian Special pizza has no row in the guide, despite being a headline specialty pizza.
• Beverages, beer, wine and cocktails have no rows, apart from Kids Apple Juice.

Corrections to the Previous Version of This Page

We correct errors in the open rather than deleting them quietly. Removed or replaced:

• Salami listed as a vegan pizza topping. Barro’s: Vegan = No.
• Honey BBQ, Honey Hot, “Garlic” sauce and Poppy Seed dressing listed as vegan. All four Vegan = No; Poppy Seed declares egg and milk.
• “Sbarro’s Garlic Sauce is also Vegan-friendly.” Sbarro is a different company entirely. The sentence also compared it to a third chain’s garlic sauce with no source. Removed.
• “Vegetarian Special Pizza. A pizza specially made for vegan customers. It only contains mushrooms, onion, green pepper, black olive, and tomato, with just 128 to 576 calories per slice.” Contradicted on every count. Barro’s defines its base pizza as “Made-To-Order Pizza — Mozzarella Cheese, Pizza Sauce & Your Choice of Toppings”; there is no guide row for the Vegetarian Special; and the calorie range had no source (“128” matches the menu’s Chips line). The claim was repeated in the old conclusion as “which is 100% vegan” — also removed.
• The white-sauce hack — “ask them to use the white pizza mix as the sauce. The sauce is 100% vegan because it only contains herbs, garlic, and oil.” The White Pizza declares Milk and Barro’s names Parmesan, Mozzarella and Ricotta in it. The standalone White Sauce topping has no guide row at all.
• “There are no gluten-free pizzas that are also vegan-friendly. Since gluten-free pizzas are made with eggs…” Flatly contradicted by the document the sentence cited. Both GF crusts are Vegan = YES with no allergen statement.
• “There are many vegan menus in Barro’s Pizza, but it does not include vegan cheese.” Contradicted. See above.
• “Vegan-friendly roasted vegetables, potato wedges, and roasted vegetables.” None of these items exists in the guide or on the menu — and the sentence listed roasted vegetables twice.
• “Over 45 locations across Arizona.” Barro’s own story page says “over 48 locations across Arizona and Texas.”
• “Started when grandma Angelina Barro arrived from Italy in the 1930s and created a pizza like no other.” Barro’s own timeline: born 1913 in Sarconi, Italy; moved to Chicago in the 1930s; first family restaurant 1961, in Chicago; Southern California 1968; first Arizona location 1980, in Mesa. Fifty years were compressed into one sentence.
• “Many of the honors the family has garnered… are listed below.” Nothing was listed below. Dangling sentence, removed.
• “Barro’s Pizza offers vegan beverages Diet Pepsi, Pepsi, Water, Tea, and Apple Juice for kids.” Only Kids Apple Juice has a guide row. The others are on the menu but unverifiable from Barro’s data.
• The cross-contamination and location-availability warnings were missing entirely. Both are now quoted above, in Barro’s own words.
• The “Is Eating Pizza Healthy?” section — roughly 140 words of unsourced nutrition advocacy with a spliced “In 2025” and a keyword-stuffed closing line — has been removed.
• A “Vegan Pizza Alternative Options” block promoting a competing chain, plus a PETA framing line in the conclusion, have been removed. Neither made a claim about Barro’s, and the “list of restaurants to hop in” contained exactly one entry.

Conclusion

Barro’s is the rare chain where you can order from the brand’s own designation rather than from guesswork. A gluten-free or standard crust, pizza or BBQ sauce, the vegetable toppings and the dairy-free mozzarella are all Vegan = Yes in Barro’s guide. So are the salad bar vegetables, the Italian and balsamic dressings, the chips, and the cinnamon bread sticks for dessert.

Skip the salami, the honey sauces, the garlic parmesan and the poppy seed dressing. Ask whether your location stocks the dairy-free mozzarella. And carry Barro’s own line with you: potential allergens are present in the kitchen, and there is a risk of cross-contamination.