[Taipei 台北] Plants

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Plants

Add: 1F, No 10, Ln 253, Sec 1, Fuxing S. Rd., Da-an Dist., Taipei
Tel: (02) 2784-5677
Hours: [Tue-Fri] 11:30am-9:30pm [Sat-Sun] 10am-9:30pm
Price: 500-800 TWD/person
Visited: Jun 2016

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m far from being a vegetarian – as a food blogger, I pretty much eat everything and anything the restaurants serve. When on my own, however, I rare order or cook any meat, preferring light meals filled with lots of veggies. So when my friends in Taipei took me to Plants, a recently opened vegan/gluten-free/whole foods cafe, I was immediately charmed by it.

我本身並不是素食主義者,不過最近的確是吃的越來越輕盈了。這次在台北被朋友帶去了才剛開幕的 Plants,馬上喜歡上這家由兩個女孩子 Square 和 Lily 經營的 “植物性、無麸質、全食物小食堂”。

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Plants prepares their food based on three principles: “plants-based” – their food is free from eggs, dairy, honey and all other animal products; “gluten-free” – they do not use any wheat, barley, rye nor any grains with gluten, and instead use certified gluten-free oats, carefully choosing their sources to avoid cross-contaminated with gluten; “whole foods” – they use whole ingredients, unrefined sugars, and no overly processed food nor funny additives.

“植物性” (plant-based),以不傷害動物爲原則,完全采用全植物食材,也沒有蛋、奶、或蜂蜜;“無麸質” (gluten-free),不使用引起麸質過敏的食材;“全食物” (whole foods),指的是未精致過、可看到天然樣貌的食材。光聽就知道是家用心的好店。

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“Count nutrients, not calories”. Word.

小小的食堂清新明亮,牆上寫著 “Count nutrients, not calories”,透過櫃台能隱約看到後面的廚房。

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[Paris] Bears & Raccoons

Bears & Raccoons

Add: 21 rue Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris
Tel: 09 51 67 87 71
Hours: [Mon-Fri] 11am-6:30pm [Sat] 11am-9pm
Website: bearsandraccoons.com
Price: €7.50/sandwich, €7.50/formule, €2-3.70/tea and coffee
Visited: Apr 2015

A cute gluten-free cafe/epicerie fine in Paris 11eme. Pleasant ambience, friendly service, tasty (though rather small in size) sandwiches made to order, not bad pastries and ok coffee.

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[Paris] Chambelland

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Chambelland

Add: 14 Rue Ternaux, 75011 Paris
Tel: 01 43 55 07 30
Hours: 9am~8pm
Website: www.chambelland.com
Price: 3.50~5/pastry and bread
Visited on: Nov 2014

I’m not gluten-free, but the photos from Chambelland look so tempting that I just had to pay a visit. This boulangerie opened up earlier this year, and I had actually first heard about it from a friend who was just visiting Paris. Having stayed at an apartment just around the corner from Chambelland, she came here frequently and raved about all the breads and pastries she’d had. The fact that she never mentioned, or perhaps she was unaware of, the fact that this place is gluten-free, was a good sign for me.

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Chambelland offers an assortment of breads, pastries, cookies (including the Browkie, an in-between of brownie and cookie), but no viennoiseries at the moment.

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Our picks for the afternoon: moelleux chocolat, cheesecake, and tarte aux myrtilles (3.50~4.50 each for dine in). All were simple and quite delicious, and taste surprisingly similar to regular pastries –  I doubt that I’d be able to tell that they are gluten-free if someone just offered them to me like this.

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