For a long time, being vegan in Paris meant eating a lot of falafels and a lot of nothing else. That is no longer true. In the last five years the city has built a real plant-based scene: bourgeois bistros where a chef cooks vegetables with the sauces he used to reduce for veal, Vietnamese and Japanese canteens that erase meat without you noticing, a Michelin-starred dining room built around a vegetable tasting menu. This guide is arranged by what kind of meal you are after: a proper sit-down restaurant, an Asian bowl, a quick street-food lunch, or a serious kitchen that does not happen to be vegan but treats its plant options with real care.
The best plant-based cooking in Paris does not ask you to be vegan. It asks you to sit down and pay attention to what an aubergine, a carrot or a wild mushroom can do when a good cook takes them seriously.
Maslow 1er €€
Maslow is not a strict vegan kitchen, but about half the menu is fully plant-based and clearly marked, and it is the place I send anyone who says they want somewhere nice to eat that also happens to work for their vegan friend. The room, a big loft on the Seine with windows onto the Île de la Cité, does not look like a vegetarian restaurant at all. It looks like a Brooklyn canteen that landed at Châtelet by accident.
The food is small plates to share: kohlrabi carpaccio with a praline dressing, cauliflower wings, leek satay with a spicy peanut sauce, polpette of mushrooms in a tomato and comté sauce, portobello katsu. The texture can occasionally feel soft if you are used to a bistro steak, but the flavours are big and the kitchen understands umami. Opened in May 2023, the house has since grown into a small group with Fellows (pasta, 10th) and Maslow Temple at 32 rue de Picardie in the 3rd.
Faubourg Daimant €€
Alice Tuyet opened Faubourg Daimant in September 2023, five years after starting her vegan sandwich shop Plan D near the Canal Saint-Martin. The premise is disarmingly simple: take the French bistro tradition, keep everything that makes it good (the sauces, the generosity, the unapologetic pleasure) and remove the animal. The chef, Erwan Crier, spent years developing the plant-based technique to make it work.
The signature dishes lean into the joke with a straight face. "Croquettes cochonnes" are mushroom and smoked-soy croquettes with ravigote sauce. "Jus de carcasses de légumes" is a vegetable-bone reduction served with roasted celeriac. Guacamole de brocoli, rillettes du Puy, chou farci, oreilles de chardon laquées. You can eat several courses here without once feeling the absence of butter or cream, which is the whole point. Carte around 25 to 45 euros, tasting menu 45 to 50. Listed in the Michelin guide as a Bib Gourmand.
Daimant Saint-Honoré €€
Opened in March 2024 in the former Absinthe of Michel Rostang, Daimant Saint-Honoré is the chic older sister of the Faubourg. Three floors, a protected terrace, a wine bar, oxblood walls, raspberry-crushed carpet: the look is closer to a Belle Époque hotel than a health-food restaurant. Erwan Crier stayed on as chef, and a number of the classics travelled across town with him. The croquettes are still on the menu. The vegetable caviar, the mashed potato with its flight of sauces, and the miso-white butter are all there.
What is new is the vegetable rotisserie. Flames now lick chardon ears that are lacquered and glazed, cauliflower heads grilled with a café de Paris butter, and the menu starts to read less like a parody of bourgeois cuisine and more like its own thing. The two addresses of Daimant are worth visiting on different evenings: the Faubourg for the neo-bistro pleasure, Saint-Honoré for a more elaborate dinner and a proper wine list.
Aujourd'hui Demain €€
Opened in November 2017, Aujourd'hui Demain was the first 100% vegan concept store in France and remains the most complete. On 150 square metres in the 11th you will find, in this order: a coffee shop with proper specialty coffee and matcha, a canteen, a pastry counter, a small grocery of plant-based products, a rail of ethical clothing, a cosmetics shelf and a bookshop corner. It is half Berlin, half Melbourne, and entirely at home in the Chemin Vert.
The food leans into the comfort-food register rather than the gastronomic one. The Ultimate Burger uses Beyond Meat. The Fish and Peas uses a plant-based fillet that gets closer to the real thing than it has any right to. The Tan Tan ramen yakitori is warming and spiced. Desserts are the weakness: try the pancake stack or the mi-cuit chocolate cake with hazelnut filling. Sunday is brunch day, generous, from noon to three.
Maora €€
Maora opened in the former Bloom Sushi space in the Batignolles with a deliberately ambitious acronym: Make All Omnivores Rethink Again. The kitchen calls its style "fusion botanique", which here means French technique applied to ingredients and flavours drawn from East and Southeast Asia. The room is light, modern, and the calmest of the addresses in this guide: a room for a proper slow dinner rather than a lively share-plate evening.
The signature is the "tigre qui crie", a lion's mane mushroom preparation with a texture that genuinely reads as meat, and the Wrapita Trufflegar, a truffle-forward roll. Cauliflower beignets are consistently mentioned in the reviews. Desserts are a strong point, particularly the Mille Fleurs and the Mont Blanc. Small plates 6 to 10 euros, mains 16 to 19, and the total is reasonable for a fully 100% vegan kitchen cooking at this level.
Les Amants Verts €€
For twenty-five years this corner of the 11th was known as Q Bar, one of the first Thai bistros in Paris. In 2025 the founder, Alexis Huynh (also behind Bep Viet in the 13th and Didi Saigon), pulled the whole menu in one direction and turned the restaurant fully vegetarian, rebranding it Les Amants Verts. The room is unusual for this type of address: the decor was signed by a Thai architect who spent time at Dior, and the result is a warm mix of bamboo, fishing nets and low pendant lighting. It feels cosy rather than clinical.
Ninety per cent of the menu is fully vegan; the rest uses egg, principally in the pad thai. The signature is a Khao Soi Kai, northern Thai noodles in a coconut-milk curry, fresh noodles on the bottom and crispy ones on top, rich and aromatic. The green curry is the other reliable order. What sets this kitchen apart in the Paris vegetarian scene is that the faux meats and faux prawns are made in-house, by a technique the chef developed himself. Almost nobody does this in town, and it shows in the texture.
Bep Viet €€
Bep Viet opened in 2024 near avenue d'Italie, in a neighbourhood that is already the city's unofficial Vietnamese quarter. The project comes from the team behind Ngoc Xuyen Saigon, one of the best Pho kitchens in Paris, who saw a vegetarian restaurant on a trip back to Vietnam and decided Paris needed one too. The decor is clear: wicker, bamboo, green shutters, the style of a Vietnamese country inn.
The menu is short and tightly focused on the southern Vietnamese canon. The nems are stuffed with mushroom and taro. The "canard" and the "poisson" are textured soy proteins that work convincingly well with the traditional sauces and aromatics (lemongrass, galanga, fermented sauces). Plates between 15 and 20 euros. This is not a place for a quick lunch but for sitting down with a table of friends and ordering six or seven things to share.
Mori Café €€
Mori is the first fully vegan Japanese restaurant in Paris, opened by Julia Boucachard, who has a French-Japanese family, a biology degree and a cookbook ("Japon Vegan") to her name. The room is a small jewel: exposed beams, a vertiginous ceiling, a mezzanine with low tables and tatamis where you sit cross-legged with your shoes off.
The menu stays inside the Japanese tradition rather than reinventing it. Ramen in a soy-milk broth with leek, sweet corn and togarashi. Japanese curry with rice. Don-buri bowls with miso-roasted aubergine. Seasonal bentos. Everything is organic, everything is made in-house, and the matcha is genuinely good. Count around 16 to 20 euros for a full meal. The space is small, the Friday and Saturday evenings get crowded, and there is no reservation policy. Come early, or come at a quiet time.
Saravanaa Bhavan €
Saravanaa Bhavan is a chain, and normally that word would be enough to disqualify an address from any honest guide to Paris. This one is the exception. Founded in Chennai in 1981, it has grown to over a hundred restaurants in more than twenty countries, and throughout that expansion it has held on to a very particular discipline: authentic South Indian vegetarian food, mostly from the Tamil Nadu, with the vegan options clearly marked and plentiful.
Come for the dosas, the rice-and-lentil crepes from the south, stuffed with spiced potato (masala), or with ghee (not vegan) or with onion (vegan). Order a thali, the compartmentalised tray that lets you try several curries, a dal, a rice, a raita and a dessert in one go. The idli, the vada, the pongal. The South Indian filter coffee is worth the trip on its own, though made with milk. Prices are low for Paris, around 10 to 20 euros for a generous meal. This is the kitchen that feeds the Indian expats of the Gare du Nord neighbourhood, which is how I know it is real.
Jah Jah by Le Tricycle €
Coralie Jouhier and Daqui Gomis started Le Tricycle in 2013 as a food bike parked on Paris pavements, serving vegan hot dogs with a rasta accent. Ten years and two addresses later, they run Jah Jah by Le Tricycle, the grown-up version: a full sit-down restaurant decorated in reggae pinks and greens, with a kitchen that is one of the most original plant-based voices in the city.
The food is Ital, the Jamaican plant-based tradition tied to Rastafari culture, with strong Caribbean and West African seasonings. Cauliflower wings in a BBQ lacquer. The vegan hot dog is still here, five euros, with a bissap-hibiscus juice on the side. Bowls of the day, three versions: raw, cooked, cold. Sweet potato, plantain, coconut, chili sin carne. The chocolate-avocado dessert sounds wrong and is not. Everything is gluten-free. Prices sit between 5 and 15 euros.
Land & Monkeys €
Land & Monkeys is the first 100% plant-based bakery in Paris, which is a bigger thing than it might sound when the city you live in treats butter as a sacrament. It was opened in February 2020 by Rodolphe Landemaine, who knows what he is doing: fifteen years at Pierre Hermé's Ladurée, then at Paul Bocuse, then at the Bristol, before building his own bakery group with fifteen shops from Paris to Tokyo. He became vegan after reading an article by the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, and decided to open a bakery that would stop existing categories from being a problem.
The baguette is a baguette. The croissant laminates and layers the way a croissant should, with a plant-based butter he spent two years developing. The jambon-beurre has no ham and no butter and tastes like a jambon-beurre. There are cookies, financiers, a pain au chocolat, a chocolate tart, sandwiches for lunch, a specialty coffee counter and an airy back room to sit down. The ingredient list is 100% natural and the carbon footprint is up to 90% lower than that of a traditional bakery. Flours come from Les Moulins de Brasseuil, less than 200 km from Paris. Six Paris addresses, including Beaumarchais, rue de Turenne (4th), Ramey (18th), Losserand (14th), Roquette (11th) and rue d'Amsterdam (9th).
Le Daily Syrien Veggie €
The Daily Syrien family has three addresses around the Faubourg Saint-Denis, and the Veggie one is the third. It sits inside a former butcher shop, and the decor was left intact: meat hooks, white faience, the cold display case that now holds salads and pickles instead of meat. The joke is good. The food is better.
Seventeen mezze at six euros each, chalked on a slate on the wall. Moutabal (aubergine and tahini), houmous, falafel, tabouleh, feuilles de vigne stuffed with rice, moujadara (lentils and rice), cigars of feta, zaatar flatbreads. A good detail: in the Syrian kitchen "veggie" means vegan, without any dairy, so the veggie tasting plate at thirteen euros is fully plant-based by default. Homemade lemonade, fresh carrot-ginger-lemon juice. This is the best mezze table in the neighbourhood and one of the great cheap lunches of the city.
Anona €€€
Anona is the most ambitious entry in this guide. It is the restaurant of Thibaut Spiwack, a former Top Chef candidate with a quietly extraordinary CV, and it has two Michelin stars in the specific sense that it holds both a red star (for the cooking) and a green star (for the environmental work behind it). Anona got the green star in 2019, and the red one in 2023.
The menu is not vegan, but it is built around the vegetable. The lunch menu has a six-course blind vegetarian version, available Monday to Friday, that can be adapted to vegan, lactose-free or gluten-free on request. The evening tasting menu has one vegetarian course, one seafood, one fish, one meat, in no particular order, and it too can be reworked in a plant-based direction if you ask. A sand-carrot cooked in its own juice with verbena, timut pepper and an "earth emulsion" is the kind of dish you get here. The service is discreet, the room is small and low-lit with wood, stone and copper, and the kitchen is run with obvious seriousness. Count around 65 euros at lunch, over 100 in the evening.
Alegrías €€
Jeannett Rosales Galán is from Guadalajara, in Jalisco, and she opened Alegrías in this corner of the 11th as a personal project: regional Mexican cooking as she remembers it, rather than the fusion style that most Parisian Mexican addresses default to. The menu includes meat and fish, but the plant-based dishes are not an afterthought. Gault & Millau classifies the place as Mexican, Modern, Vegan and Vegetarian at once, which is a fair summary.
Quesadillas with squash blossom and cheese. Chilaquiles. Tacos that change with what the market is doing. The tepache pineapple tartar with coconut gel, pineapple purée, coconut-amaranth alegrías (the little sweet that gave the restaurant its name) and tagete flowers is one of the most elegant dishes in this guide, and it happens to be vegan by construction. The tequila list is serious and the cocktails are worth ordering. The room is small and the service is warm.
Marcus Pizze Amore €€
Rue Bichat, near the Canal Saint-Martin, Marcus serves Italian pizza with real seriousness. The dough has a three-day fermentation, blended from a complete flour and a multi-cereal flour, and the oven is a traditional copper dome. That is for the non-vegan side of the menu, which also happens to be very good. What makes this address useful here is that the kitchen treats the vegan pizzas as a genuine equal line of work rather than as a single sad option at the bottom of the card.
Eight of the fourteen pizzas on the menu are fully vegan, with a plant-based fior di latte that genuinely melts: the Umami, the Spianata, the Tartufo, the Apollo, the Esther, the Star, the Margherita 2.0, the Al Pollo (with a plant-based "chicken"). Pizzas sit between 14 and 21 euros, a reasonable price for the quality. A vegan tiramisu with speculoos ends the meal. A fair number of the regulars are not vegan: they come because the pizza is good, which is exactly the point.
The Paris vegan scene moves fast. Places open, close, and change hands from one year to the next. What you read here is true as of April 2026. When in doubt, call before you go.