Posts Tagged ‘vegan’

Paris Restaurants: Gentle Gourmet Café

by Richard NahemRichard Nahem

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From the outside, Gentle Gourmet Café, near the Gare de Lyon, looks like one of many modern Paris restaurants/cafés. But if you look closely at the menu on the window, you will see some classic dishes like pain perdu, hamburgers, pumpkin soup and salade lyonnaise, with a twist: they are made with all vegetables and no animal products. Gentle Gourmet is the first 100 percent gourmet vegan restaurant in Paris. Owner Deborah Pivain doesn’t advertise or promote the restaurant as vegan, as eating vegan is the norm...

Vegetarian in Paris

by Kate Ross

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Being a vegetarian in Paris can make you something of an odd entity. Explanations, you may find, are necessary to really underline that you really, truly eat no chicken, fish or—and the French will be shocked at this...

Day-Trippin’: London

by Sylvia SabesSylvia Sabes

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Last week I had a day trip in London. I felt like Alice in Wonderland as I descended into the metro, passing the iconic red signs and inhaling the fragrant blend of diesel fuel and expensive perfume that is unique to Paris, emerging 2 hours and 15 minutes later to uniformly black taxicabs, red double-decker buses and English. Lovely...