Paris Ditches Fancy Foie Gras for Hip Veggies and Georgia BBQ

KEY POINTS

•Since 2016, Paris has seen its traditional layered dining pyramid flatten into an accessible veggie-centric scene.
•Young chefs like Youssef Marzouk at Aldehyde challenge the expensive, stodgy haute cuisine status quo.
•In 2025, American influences arrived with L’Arret by the Grey from Savannah and Carrie Solomon’s California-Mediterranean Chez Carrie.
•Les Collonges in Montmartre offers a changing chalkboard menu focusing on inventive, vegetable-forward dishes beloved by locals.

Since 2016, Paris's food scene flipped like a crepe gone rogue: traditional haute cuisine is now a wallet-obliterating relic as pricey as a vintage Chanel bag at auction. Meanwhile, hungry hipsters flock to places like Youssef Marzouk's Aldehyde where veg stars and meat plays the backup dancer. 2025's cameo appearances include L’Arret by the Grey, a transplant from Savannah, Georgia, and Carrie Solomon’s wild California-Mediterranean mashup Chez Carrie in Sentier. Montmartre’s Les Collonges serves a chalkboard menu that changes more than a Parisian weather forecast, all while staying sincere and veggie-forward. Oui, even the Parisians are joining the plant parade.

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When the French insist meat is just the opening act and veg is the headline, you know Paris dining flipped the script on snobbery, with a side of American pit BBQ crashing the party.

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