VeggieTalk

Bonjour from Paris, where I am on vacation this week. My friend Wendy and I are doing a lot more walking than eating, but since this is a food blog, I will focus on the latter. On this trip, I wanted to check out a few more of the veg restaurants than we did on our last trip. There seems to be a kind of style of food presentation in many of these places that I really appreciate. These are called “assiettes,” which are platters that have a number of raw and cooked dishes presented quite asthetically. You’ll rarely find, in an sort of eatery, big heap o’ something on a plate, as is often the case in American restaurants (no matter what kind).

What I also didn’t find, in these veg meals, were any spicy or even big flavors. Everything is rather simply prepared, but very good, since the food is so fresh. Here is one such presentation, one of the platters we ordered to share at Le Piccolo Teatro on Rue des Ecouffes in the Marais. Yesterday we had a similar experience at Le Grenier de Notre Dame on Rue de la Bucherie, close to the famous Anglophone bookstore Shakespear and Co., and indeed across from the Notre Dame Cathedral