diff --git a/components/lib/menu/Menu.vue b/components/lib/menu/Menu.vue
index 259cc459e..ce075c173 100644
--- a/components/lib/menu/Menu.vue
+++ b/components/lib/menu/Menu.vue
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
                     <template v-for="(item, i) of model" :key="label(item) + i.toString()">
                         <template v-if="item.items && visible(item) && !item.separator">
                             <li v-if="item.items" :id="id + '_' + i" :class="cx('submenuHeader')" role="none" v-bind="ptm('submenuHeader')">
-                                <slot name="item" :item="item">{{ label(item) }}</slot>
+                                <slot name="submenuheader" :item="item">{{ label(item) }}</slot>
                             </li>
                             <template v-for="(child, j) of item.items" :key="child.label + i + '_' + j">
                                 <PVMenuitem v-if="visible(child) && !child.separator" :id="id + '_' + i + '_' + j" :item="child" :templates="$slots" :exact="exact" :focusedOptionId="focusedOptionId" @item-click="itemClick" :pt="pt" />
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ export default {
     resizeListener: null,
     container: null,
     list: null,
+    beforeMount() {
+        if (!this.$slots.item) {
+            console.warn('In future versions, vue-router support will be removed. Item templating should be used.');
+        }
+    },
     mounted() {
         this.id = this.id || UniqueComponentId();
 
diff --git a/components/lib/menu/Menuitem.vue b/components/lib/menu/Menuitem.vue
index cd355c357..f19af7ad1 100644
--- a/components/lib/menu/Menuitem.vue
+++ b/components/lib/menu/Menuitem.vue
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                     <span :class="cx('label')" v-bind="getPTOptions('label')">{{ label() }}</span>
                 </a>
             </template>
-            <component v-else :is="templates.item" :item="item"></component>
+            <component v-else-if="templates.item" :is="templates.item" :item="item" :label="label()" :props="getMenuItemProps(item)"></component>
         </div>
     </li>
 </template>
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import BaseComponent from 'primevue/basecomponent';
 import Ripple from 'primevue/ripple';
 import { ObjectUtils } from 'primevue/utils';
+import { mergeProps } from 'vue';
 
 export default {
     name: 'Menuitem',
@@ -83,6 +84,30 @@ export default {
         },
         label() {
             return typeof this.item.label === 'function' ? this.item.label() : this.item.label;
+        },
+        getMenuItemProps(item) {
+            return {
+                action: mergeProps(
+                    {
+                        class: this.cx('action'),
+                        tabindex: '-1',
+                        'aria-hidden': true
+                    },
+                    this.getPTOptions('action')
+                ),
+                icon: mergeProps(
+                    {
+                        class: [this.cx('icon'), item.icon]
+                    },
+                    this.getPTOptions('icon')
+                ),
+                label: mergeProps(
+                    {
+                        class: this.cx('label')
+                    },
+                    this.getPTOptions('label')
+                )
+            };
         }
     },
     directives: {