Vegan Paris

French law has reserved the word boulangerie, a bakery, since 1998 for shops that knead, shape and bake their bread on the premises, and Paris guards that title fiercely. So it is a joy that the city now has fully vegan boulangeries turning out flaky croissants and glossy éclairs without a gram of butter or cream.

This guide covers nine fully vegan places, from a seasonal tasting menu in the 11th to Afro-Caribbean bowls in the 10th and French onion soup in the Marais. Every address comes with its arrondissement (city district), so you can plan your eating by neighbourhood. For more cities, browse all my vegan travel destinations.

Vegan Paris at a Glance

• Best for a special dinner: Le Potager de Charlotte
• Best tasting menu: The Friendly Kitchen
• Best French classics: Le Potager du Marais
• Best cheap lunch: Jah Jah
• Best brunch: Cloud Cakes and Mesa
• Best croissants: Land & Monkeys
• Best cakes and macarons: VG Pâtisserie
• Best quick breakfast: Wild & the Moon

Best Vegan Restaurants in Paris

1. Le Potager de Charlotte: Seasonal Plant-Based Bistro Cooking Vegan

Order the rigatoni with smoked paprika and broccoli, the main diners in 2026 keep coming back for. The chocolate mousse is the other repeat favourite, dark and rich enough to make the case for dessert on its own. Start with the avocado dressed up to look like a hard-boiled egg, a playful opener that shows off the kitchen’s sense of humour.

Chef David Valentin runs two restaurants, this one in the 9th arrondissement and a second at 21 rue Rennequin in the 17th. The menu follows the seasons, built on organic produce from French growers and short supply chains, and it changes often enough to reward a second visit. I would book this first for a proper sit-down dinner in Paris.

💡 Tip: The 9th arrondissement restaurant serves dinner only Monday to Wednesday, adds lunch Thursday to Saturday, and does brunch on Sunday from 11:30AM to 3PM. Book online, because tables go fast.

📍 12 rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, 75009 Paris | 9th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 44 65 09 63 | 🌐 lepotagerdecharlotte.fr | 📸 @lepotagerdecharlotte

2. Wild & the Moon: Açaí Bowls, Banh Mi and Matcha Vegan

Start with the açaí bowl, the order that comes up most in reviews, thick and cold and piled with fruit and granola. The banh mi, a Vietnamese-style sandwich, gets praise for its filling, and the matcha and chai lattes are the most-ordered drinks. Banana bread and a cold-pressed green juice make an easy breakfast to carry out the door.

Wild & the Moon is an organic, fully plant-based café chain with eight branches in Paris, from Saint-Honoré and the Marais to the Champs-Élysées. The original café on rue Charlot, in the upper Marais, opens at 8AM on weekdays and 9AM on weekends and stays open until 7PM. It works best as a fuel stop between museums and shops.

💡 Tip: Opening hours differ from branch to branch, so check the one nearest your hotel on the website before you walk over.

📍 55 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris | Upper Marais, 3rd arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 86 95 40 44 | 🌐 wildandthemoon.fr | 📸 @wildandthemoon

3. The Friendly Kitchen: Vegan Tasting Menus in the 11th Vegan

Book the tasting menu, the order diners in 2025 and 2026 rave about for its run of small, surprising plates full of contrasting textures. Recent menus have brought garam masala hummus with tempeh crumble, a vegan Caesar salad, spanakopita (Greek spinach pie) and a herb frittata with crispy asparagus. Desserts get singled out too, and a vegan cheese plate often appears.

The restaurant sits at 8 rue Popincourt in the 11th, a short walk from Bastille. Everything is organic, seasonal and 100% vegan, and most of the menu is gluten-free, so it suits a table with mixed dietary needs. It also holds the Ecotable label for sustainable restaurants. I would come here for a long, slow dinner with a bottle of organic wine.

💡 Tip: Lunch runs only from 12PM to 1:45PM, Wednesday to Saturday, and Tuesday is dinner only. Sunday and Monday are closed, so plan your week around it.

📍 8 rue Popincourt, 75011 Paris | 11th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 43 57 33 42 | 🌐 the-friendly-kitchen.com | 📸 @thefriendlykitchen

4. Cloud Cakes: Pancakes, Croissants and Cupcakes Vegan

Order the salted caramel pancakes, which win over non-vegan friends, or go straight for the croissants, praised in reviews as flaky and buttery. The cupcakes are the other big draw and the treat people take away. For something savoury, the grilled cheese and the hummus salad both get good words, and an oat latte rounds the whole thing off nicely.

Cloud Cakes is a small, fully vegan coffee shop and bakery on rue Mandar, a side street off the Montorgueil market street in the 2nd. It serves brunch, toast and cakes all day, and visitors in 2026 called the value terrific for central Paris. It is the easiest place in this guide for a slow breakfast before sightseeing.

💡 Tip: Weekend brunch gets busy, so arrive at opening: 9:30AM Monday to Saturday and 11AM on Sunday, when it closes at 4PM.

📍 6 rue Mandar, 75002 Paris | Montorgueil, 2nd arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 42 33 95 45 | 🌐 cloudcakes.fr | 📸 @cloudcakesfr

5. Jah Jah: Afro-Caribbean Bowls and Cauliflower Wings Vegan

Order the hot bowl, the dish reviewers mention most, with yam, plantain and acheke (fermented cassava couscous) under a rotating mix of toppings. Add the barbecue cauliflower wings, which get almost as many mentions, and the tempeh skewers with peanut sauce. Wash it all down with bissap, a cold hibiscus juice, or ginger juice to calm the chilli.

Jah Jah grew out of Le Tricycle, a vegan hot dog cart, into a colourful Afro-vegan canteen in the 10th with reggae on the speakers. It is fully vegan, cheap for Paris at around €10 to €20 a head, and lively at lunch. One diner in 2026 called it the best vegan restaurant they found in the whole city.

💡 Tip: There are no reservations, so arrive at 12PM when the doors open. It closes on Sunday, and Monday is lunch only.

📍 11 rue des Petites Écuries, 75010 Paris | 10th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 46 27 38 03 | 🌐 jahjahparis.com | 📸 @jahjahparis

6. Le Potager du Marais: Vegan French Classics Vegan

Order the French onion soup, the dish diners mention most by far, which one diner in 2026 called absolutely spectacular. Follow it with the seitan steak or the bourguignon, a red wine stew, and save room for the crème brûlée, the second most-praised plate. The mushroom pâté and the potato dauphinois (creamy baked potatoes) have plenty of fans too.

This small bistro on rue Saint-Paul serves fully vegan versions of the French classics, so it is the place to eat the dishes your non-vegan friends order everywhere else. Expect tight tables and old-school Paris charm. Reviews in 2025 and 2026 run hotter on the soup and dessert than the mains, so I would build the meal around those.

💡 Tip: It opens Wednesday to Sunday, 12PM to 3PM and 7PM to 10:30PM, and closes Monday and Tuesday. Book ahead for dinner on weekends.

📍 26 rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris | Le Marais, 4th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 57 40 98 57 | 📸 @lepotagerdumarais

7. Mesa: Latin-Inspired Plates at Hoy Paris Vegan

Order the banana bread with miso praline, served warm and moist with a salty, nutty edge that keeps you going back for another forkful. The ramen gets praise for a balanced broth, and at brunch the pancakes and the ube drink, made from purple yam, are favourites. Arancini, roasted cauliflower and a light salted chocolate mousse also turn up in reviews.

Mesa is the restaurant of Hoy, a plant-based hotel with a yoga studio on rue des Martyrs, a food shopping street in South Pigalle. The cooking draws on Latin American roots, the mocktails are good, and the dining room is full of flowers. Service can be slow and portions small, so order an extra plate to share and settle in.

💡 Tip: Brunch runs from 8AM to 2:30PM on Saturday and Sunday. Dinner is Monday to Saturday from 7PM, so Sunday evening is out.

📍 68 rue des Martyrs, 75009 Paris | South Pigalle, 9th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 77 37 87 20 | 🌐 hoyparis.com/mesa | 📸 @mesa.paris

8. Land & Monkeys: Croissants, Babka and Flan Vegan

Order a croissant and a pain au chocolat first, then the chocolate hazelnut babka, which a 2026 visitor could not believe was vegan. The flan, a set custard tart Parisians eat on the go, and the madeleines get plenty of love too. For lunch, the quiches and the tofu or plant-based tuna sandwiches travel well to a park bench.

Land & Monkeys is a fully plant-based boulangerie chain from baker Rodolphe Landemaine, with about a dozen shops across Paris, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence. The Turenne branch in the Marais opens at 7:30AM on weekdays and 8AM on weekends, and has seating upstairs. It is the obvious first stop for a proper Paris breakfast.

💡 Tip: Go early for the full spread of viennoiserie (croissants and other laminated pastries), and take a babka back to your hotel for later.

📍 2 rue de Turenne, 75004 Paris | Le Marais, 4th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 86 04 31 87 | 🌐 land-and-monkeys.com | 📸 @land_and_monkeys

9. VG Pâtisserie: Macarons, Éclairs and Cruffins Vegan

Order the macarons, praised for their rich filling, and an éclair, then try a cruffin, a croissant-muffin hybrid filled with nutty cream or compote and crème pâtissière (pastry cream). A regular in 2026 called the croissant glacé, an iced croissant, one of the best things she had ever eaten. Plenty of visitors could not tell anything was dairy-free.

VG Pâtisserie opened on boulevard Voltaire in 2016 as France’s first fully vegan pâtisserie, and the counter still rotates seasonal tarts, flans and cakes. Prices are fair, and there are a few seats for a coffee with your pastry. It also takes orders for celebration cakes if you are in town for a birthday.

💡 Tip: It closes on Monday and opens only from 1PM on Tuesday. Other days it opens at 9AM and closes at 7PM, or 6PM on Sunday.

📍 123 boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris | 11th arrondissement | ☎️ +33 1 48 87 13 42 | 🌐 vgpatisserie.fr | 📸 @vgpatisserie

How Paris Addresses Work: The Arrondissement Snail

Paris is split into 20 arrondissements, numbered in a clockwise spiral that starts at the Louvre in the 1st and coils out to the 20th on the eastern edge. Parisians call the shape l’escargot, the snail. The last two digits of a postcode give the district away, so 75011 is the 11th and 75004 is the 4th.

For eating, that spiral is handy. Three entries in this guide sit in the Marais, across the 3rd and 4th, within a short walk of each other. The 9th and the 11th have two each. Pick one cluster a day and you can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner without stepping onto the Métro.

Vegan Paris: What to Know Before You Go

• Sunday and Monday are the tricky days. The Friendly Kitchen closes both, Jah Jah closes Sunday, and Le Potager du Marais closes Monday and Tuesday.
• Lunch service is short, usually 12PM to 2:30PM, and most kitchens close until 7PM. Bakeries and cafés fill the gap in the afternoon.
• Book dinner online for the sit-down restaurants. Jah Jah takes no reservations, so go at opening.
• Végétalien means vegan and végétarien means vegetarian, so cheese and eggs can turn up under the second word. “Sans produits laitiers ni œufs” means without dairy or eggs.
• A baguette de tradition, by a 1993 decree, can contain only flour, water, salt and yeast or sourdough, so it is vegan at any boulangerie. Croissants outside vegan bakeries are made with butter.
• Service is included in French bills by law (service compris), so rounding up is plenty. Ask for une carafe d’eau and tap water arrives free.

When to Visit Paris

April to June and September to October are the sweet spots, with mild days, long terrace evenings and the full run of seasonal menus. Spring brings asparagus and strawberries to the market stalls, and autumn brings squash and mushrooms, which the seasonal kitchens in this guide cook with.

August is quieter, and many independent restaurants close for two or three weeks of congés annuels (annual holiday), so check before you build a trip around one table. December is cold but glittering, with lit-up boulevards, Christmas markets and bakery windows dressed for the holidays.

Vegan Paris FAQ