diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
index a0b8e81f666c..6916d63a56e1 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
@@ -519,11 +519,14 @@ def apply_hf_chat_template(
 def apply_mistral_chat_template(
     tokenizer: MistralTokenizer,
     messages: List[ChatCompletionMessageParam],
-    chat_template: Optional[str],
+    chat_template: Optional[str] = None,
     **kwargs: Any,
 ) -> List[int]:
+    if chat_template is not None:
+        logger.warning(
+            "'chat_template' cannot be overridden for mistral tokenizer.")
+
     return tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
         messages=messages,
-        chat_template=chat_template,
         **kwargs,
     )
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
index 17e318cb5e04..ea1910ed20ec 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
@@ -45,26 +45,25 @@ class MistralTokenizer:
     def __init__(self, tokenizer: PublicMistralTokenizer) -> None:
         self.mistral = tokenizer
         self.instruct = tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer
-        self.tokenizer = tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer
 
-        self.vocab_size = len(self.tokenizer.vocab())
-
-        assert isinstance(self.tokenizer,
-                          (Tekkenizer, SentencePieceTokenizer)), type(
-                              self.tokenizer)
-
-        if (is_tekken := isinstance(self.tokenizer, Tekkenizer)):
+        tokenizer_ = tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer
+        if isinstance(tokenizer_, Tekkenizer):
             # Make sure special tokens will not raise
-            self.tokenizer.special_token_policy = SpecialTokenPolicy.IGNORE
-
-        self._is_tekken = is_tekken
+            tokenizer_.special_token_policy = SpecialTokenPolicy.IGNORE
+
+            self._vocab = {
+                token: idx
+                for idx, token in enumerate(tokenizer_.vocab())
+            }
+        elif isinstance(tokenizer_, SentencePieceTokenizer):
+            self._vocab = {
+                token: idx
+                for idx, token in enumerate(tokenizer_.vocab())
+            }
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(f"Unsupported tokenizer: {type(tokenizer_)}")
 
-        # the following attributes are set to fit VLLM's design
-        self.is_fast = True
-        self.chat_template = True
-        self.all_special_ids: List[Any] = []
-        self.all_special_tokens: List[Any] = []
-        self.all_special_tokens_extended: List[Any] = []
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer_
 
     @classmethod
     def from_pretrained(cls,
@@ -102,6 +101,38 @@ def _download_mistral_tokenizer_from_hf(tokenizer_name: str,
                                          revision=revision)
         return tokenizer_file
 
+    # the following attributes are set to fit VLLM's design
+    @property
+    def all_special_tokens_extended(self) -> List[str]:
+        return []
+
+    @property
+    def all_special_tokens(self) -> List[str]:
+        return []
+
+    @property
+    def all_special_ids(self) -> List[int]:
+        return []
+
+    @property
+    def bos_token_id(self) -> int:
+        return self.tokenizer.bos_id
+
+    @property
+    def eos_token_id(self) -> int:
+        return self.tokenizer.eos_id
+
+    @property
+    def is_fast(self) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self) -> int:
+        return len(self._vocab)
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return self.vocab_size
+
     def __call__(
         self,
         prompt: str,
@@ -117,9 +148,12 @@ def __call__(
 
         return Encoding(input_ids=input_ids)
 
-    def get_added_vocab(self) -> List[str]:
+    def get_vocab(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
+        return self._vocab
+
+    def get_added_vocab(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
         # Mistral tokenizers have no added vocabulary
-        return []
+        return {}
 
     def encode(self, prompt: str) -> List[int]:
         # `encode` should only be used for prompt completion
@@ -141,7 +175,7 @@ def apply_chat_template(self,
         return encoded.tokens
 
     def convert_tokens_to_string(self, tokens: List[str]) -> str:
-        if self._is_tekken:
+        if isinstance(self.tokenizer, Tekkenizer):
             return "".join(tokens)
         else:
             return self.tokenizer.decode(tokens)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
@@ -151,14 +185,11 @@ def decode(self, ids: Union[List[int], int]) -> str:
             ids = [ids]
         return self.tokenizer.decode(ids)
 
-    @property
-    def eos_token_id(self):
-        return self.tokenizer.eos_id
-
     def convert_ids_to_tokens(
-            self,
-            ids: List[int],
-            skip_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True) -> List[str]:
+        self,
+        ids: List[int],
+        skip_special_tokens: bool = True,
+    ) -> List[str]:
         # TODO(Patrick) - potentially allow special tokens to not be skipped
         assert (
             skip_special_tokens
@@ -170,6 +201,3 @@ def convert_ids_to_tokens(
 
         tokens = [self.tokenizer.id_to_piece(id) for id in ids]
         return tokens
-
-    def __len__(self):
-        return self.vocab_size