There was good reason for locals to wax rhapsodic about the arrival of the food truck. More than just unprecedented, it was a force capable of going up against pettifogging bureaucrats and a city resistant to change, with Kristen Frederick as the movement’s captain. It was also a welcome diversion from the overwrought New York City decor that began to define every new bistro and even the renovations of old favorites. Line the walls with photographs of the Manhattan skyline and you had yourself a theme, it seemed.
Now that Paris’s besotted love affair with its imposing sister city of the West has somewhat tempered, attention can be refocused on more interesting, emerging trends on the food scene.
After ‘sans gluten’ found a place in the Parisian lexicon last year thanks to Helmut Newcake and more recently Noglu, vegan is the next buzzword to be embraced by locals. Marked by limited, starch-heavy menu options, dining out in Paris was once a daunting prospect for vegetarians. For vegans, it was nearly impossible. But as Anglo influences, both good and bad, began to seep into the collective consciousness, locals bemoaned this paucity of…
