Paris is quietly becoming a vegan pastry capital. The city that gave the world the croissant, the éclair and the entremet now has a generation of classically trained pâtissiers proving that all of them can be made entirely from plants — with no compromise on butter-laminated flakiness or glossy, jewel-like finishes. From France’s first 100% vegan pâtisserie to plant-based boulangeries winning over sceptical Parisian neighbours, the sweet side of the city has never been more vegan-friendly. This guide rounds up the very best vegan pastries in Paris, from Michelin-level entremets to melt-in-the-mouth croissants.
The spots below cluster in the 2nd, 11th, 12th and 17th arrondissements, with a couple of mini-chains sprinkled across the city. Like our other vegan city guides, this round-up covers nine of the best vegan pastries in Paris, each with its own story and signature bakes. Let’s dig in.
Best Vegan Pastries in Paris
1. VG Pâtisserie — France’s First 100% Vegan Pâtisserie
VG Pâtisserie is the pioneer that started it all: founded in 2016 by Bérénice Leconte, it was France’s first 100% vegan pâtisserie, and it still sets the standard from its home on Boulevard Voltaire. The counter is pure French pastry theatre — glossy tarts, jaw-dropping entremets, éclairs and seasonal creations — every one of them plant-based, many gluten-free too. This is haute pâtisserie technique applied wholesale to vegan baking, and the results routinely fool traditionalists. A visit here is as close as vegan travellers get to the classic Parisian pastry-window experience, and it remains an essential pilgrimage for anyone with a sweet tooth and a plant-based passport.
💡 Tip: Go for a seasonal entremet and an éclair — and arrive earlier in the day for the best selection. Open Wednesday to Saturday 9:00–19:00, Sundays until 17:00 and Tuesday afternoons, closed Mondays. It’s right by Voltaire métro in the 11th.
📍 123 Boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris | 📞 +33 9 67 80 13 42 | 🌐 vgpatisserie.fr | 📸 @vgpatisserie
2. Land&Monkeys — Plant-Based Boulangerie, Perfected
Land&Monkeys is the project of classically trained baker Rodolphe Landemaine, who set out to prove a traditional Parisian boulangerie could go 100% plant-based without anyone missing the butter — and succeeded so thoroughly it’s now a growing mini-chain across the city. The golden croissants are the stuff of legend (regularly cited among the best in Paris, vegan or not), alongside pains au chocolat, brioche, baguettes, sandwiches and polished pâtisserie. Every site has the warm, everyday feel of a proper neighbourhood bakery, just with an entirely vegan counter. For the quintessential Parisian croissant-and-coffee morning, fully plant-based, this is where you go.
💡 Tip: The croissant and the pain au chocolat are mandatory; go before mid-morning as favourites sell through. There are several Paris locations — Beaumarchais (11th), Turenne (4th), Grands Boulevards (9th), Père Lachaise (20th) and more — check the website for your nearest.
📍 86 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 75011 Paris (plus locations across the city) | 🌐 land-and-monkeys.com | 📸 @land_and_monkeys
3. Boneshaker — Handmade Vegan Donuts in the 2nd
Boneshaker has been hand-making the best donuts in Paris since 2015 — and the fact that they’re all vegan is almost incidental to their fame. Founded by American pastry chef and Le Cordon Bleu graduate Amanda Bankert, the shop turns out pillowy, colourful donuts in constantly rotating flavours, made from scratch every morning with seasonal fruit, alongside fudgy brownies and proper coffee. The Sentier shop has a devoted following of Parisians and travellers alike, and queues at weekends are part of the ritual. It’s Americana filtered through French technique — playful, precise and dangerously moreish. One is never enough.
💡 Tip: Flavours rotate constantly, so trust the case — and go before the afternoon, as popular donuts sell out. It’s in the Sentier district of the 2nd, an easy stop between the Marais and the grands boulevards.
📍 86 Rue d’Aboukir, 75002 Paris | 🌐 boneshakerparis.com | 📸 @boneshakerparis
4. Jo and Nana Cakes — Vegan Tea Time in a Vintage Salon
Jo and Nana Cakes is the sweetest room in the 12th arrondissement: a 100% plant-based pâtisserie and salon de thé decked out in vintage pastels, just a short walk from the Coulée Verte. The counter offers layer cakes, tarts and bakes that are entirely egg- and lactose-free (with plenty of gluten-free options), but the real draw is the proper English-style afternoon tea — a full tiered tower of sweets and savouries, completely vegan, served in the cosy tea room. It’s a charming, unhurried experience that feels like a secret, and one of very few places in Europe doing a fully plant-based afternoon tea this well.
💡 Tip: Book the vegan afternoon tea tower in advance — it’s served Thursday to Monday and slots fill up. The shop is on Rue Abel near Gare de Lyon, perfect before or after a train.
📍 14 Rue Abel, 75012 Paris | 📞 +33 9 86 45 78 42 | 🌐 joandnanacakes.com | 📸 @joandnanacakes
5. Giardino — Elegant 100% Végétale Creations in Batignolles
Giardino is the creation of pastry chef Matteo Deiana, who built his Batignolles maison around a simple idea: pâtisserie that everyone can enjoy. Everything is 100% plant-based, lactose-free and gluten-free — and none of it tastes like a concession. Expect elegant, Italian-accented creations: delicate entremets, macarons, cookies, viennoiseries and seasonal showpieces (the lemon signatures are wonderful), served in a warm, welcoming tea room on Rue des Dames. It’s the kind of place where dietary requirements simply disappear, letting everyone at the table order anything. For refined pastry with genuine inclusivity at its heart, Giardino is one of the 17th’s real treasures.
💡 Tip: Try a citrus entremet with a pot of tea in the salon — everything is gluten-free as well as vegan, so coeliac travellers are fully covered. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00–20:00 and Sundays until 19:00, in the heart of Batignolles.
📍 54 Rue des Dames, 75017 Paris | 🌐 giardinoparis.com | 📸 @giardino_paris
6. Cloud Cakes — Bright Blue Coffee Shop with a Full Pastry Case
Cloud Cakes is the 2nd arrondissement’s happiest room: a bright blue, 100% vegan coffee shop whose pastry case groans with éclairs, cupcakes, croissants, cinnamon rolls and cookies — all plant-based, all made to pair with serious specialty coffee. Beyond the sweets there’s a proper brunch and lunch menu (the pancakes have their own fan club), making it as good for a lazy weekend morning as a quick pastry stop. The vibe is friendly and informal, more Brooklyn café than Parisian salon, and it has become a beloved fixture of the city’s vegan scene. Come for a coffee, leave with a box of cakes — it’s inevitable.
💡 Tip: Weekend brunch is the move (the pancakes especially), but book or arrive early — the room is small. Open Monday to Saturday 9:00–19:00 and Sunday late morning to mid-afternoon, on Rue Mandar near Sentier métro.
📍 6 Rue Mandar, 75002 Paris | 🌐 cloudcakes.fr | 📸 @cloudcakesfr
7. La Mauvaise Herbe — Sourdough & Viennoiserie, 100% Végétale
La Mauvaise Herbe (“the weed”) is where French bakery tradition meets vegan innovation: a 100% plant-based boulangerie-pâtisserie in the 17th, founded by pastry chef Florence Neveux and baker Maxime Raïmi with a promise of “no compromise on taste”. The organic sourdough loaves are serious bread-nerd territory, the almond croissants and reinvented viennoiserie have won over the neighbourhood’s traditionalists, and the seasonal entremets show real pâtissier craft. It’s a proper working neighbourhood bakery — open early, seven days a week bar Thursdays — rather than a destination boutique, which is exactly what makes it special. This is what the future of the French bakery looks like.
💡 Tip: Come in the morning for the almond croissant and a sourdough loaf to take away. Open every day except Thursday, roughly 7:00–20:00, on Avenue de Saint-Ouen at the top of the 17th.
📍 103 Avenue de Saint-Ouen, 75017 Paris | 📸 @boulangerie.lamauvaiseherbe
8. Wild & The Moon — Plant-Based Café with Superfood Sweets
Wild & The Moon is Paris’s stylish plant-based café family, with locations across the Marais and beyond serving a 100% vegan, organic menu of bowls, juices — and a seriously good line in wholesome sweets. The moist olive-oil cakes, raw superfood chocolate truffles, energy balls and seasonal bakes offer a lighter, health-first counterpoint to the city’s butter-free-butter pastries, all made with organic, largely gluten-free ingredients. The spaces themselves are beautiful — plant-filled, design-led and very Instagram-friendly — and the Charlot flagship in the Marais makes a perfect mid-wander pause. For pastry with a wellness streak, this is the Paris go-to.
💡 Tip: Pair an olive-oil cake or raw truffle with one of the cold-pressed juices. The Charlot site in the Marais is the flagship, with further locations near Opéra, Amelot and the 17th — most open daily from morning to late afternoon.
📍 55 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris (plus locations across the city) | 🌐 wildandthemoon.fr | 📸 @wildandthemoon
9. Aujourd’hui Demain — France’s First 100% Vegan Concept Store
Aujourd’hui Demain holds a special place in the city’s plant-based story as France’s very first 100% vegan concept store, open since 2017 in the 11th arrondissement. Part grocery, part bookshop and part pâtisserie, its shelves brim with organic pantry staples, artisan chocolates and a tempting counter of house-made vegan bakes — think babka, brioche, cheesecakes, carrot cake and rotating seasonal pastries, all entirely plant-based. Stylish, ethical and dog-friendly, it doubles as a mini community hub, hosting pop-ups and a monthly vintage market. For travellers who want to stock up on sweet treats and vegan goodies to take away, it’s an essential stop.
💡 Tip: Everything is take-away, so build a picnic — grab a babka or a slice of cheesecake plus a few pantry treats to carry off. It’s a short walk from Place de la Bastille in the 11th; check Instagram before visiting, as opening days and pop-up events change.
📍 42 Rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris | 🌐 aujourdhui-demain.com | 📸 @ajddemain
Tips for Visiting Paris’s Vegan Pastry Scene
Geography is on your side: Boneshaker, Cloud Cakes (both 2nd) and the Marais branches of Land&Monkeys and Wild & The Moon can all be strung into one gloriously sugary right-bank walk, with VG Pâtisserie a short métro hop east. Giardino and La Mauvaise Herbe pair naturally in the 17th, and Jo and Nana Cakes rewards a detour towards Gare de Lyon — especially if you book the afternoon tea.
Two golden rules of Paris pastry apply doubly to the vegan scene: go early (the best pieces sell out by afternoon) and check Instagram before a special trip, as independent bakeries here guard their days off and August closures fiercely. Most spots are take-away oriented, so plan a park bench — the Coulée Verte and Square des Batignolles are ideally placed.
Have you tasted your way through vegan Paris? I’d love to hear which pastry stole the show — drop your favourites in the comments below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Paris good for vegan pastries?
Surprisingly, yes — and it’s getting better every year. Paris now has France’s first fully vegan pâtisserie (VG Pâtisserie), a growing all-vegan boulangerie chain (Land&Monkeys), and independent plant-based bakeries in most central arrondissements, many run by classically trained pastry chefs.
Where can I get a vegan croissant in Paris?
Land&Monkeys is the benchmark — its vegan croissants are regularly ranked among the best in the city, butter or not — with several locations across Paris. La Mauvaise Herbe in the 17th and Cloud Cakes in the 2nd also bake excellent plant-based viennoiserie.
What was the first vegan pâtisserie in France?
VG Pâtisserie on Boulevard Voltaire, founded by Bérénice Leconte in 2016, was France’s first 100% vegan pâtisserie. It’s still going strong, serving plant-based entremets, tarts and éclairs in the 11th arrondissement.
Are vegan pastries in Paris gluten-free too?
Often, yes. Giardino in Batignolles is entirely vegan and gluten-free, VG Pâtisserie offers many gluten-free options, and health-focused spots like Wild & The Moon bake largely gluten-free. Traditional viennoiserie (croissants, pains au chocolat) is wheat-based, though, so plan accordingly.