'Goat’s cheese and roasted vegetable ciabatta panini, 6.90€.'
The huge mural featuring flocks of tropical birds on the otherwise white and clinical walls is a good metaphor for this chic new organic eatery. You may not be excited by the refrigerated shelves of prepared salads and smoothies, but order from the blackboard menu a freshly prepared toasted sandwich filled with goat’s cheese and grilled vegetables, or a freshly squeezed juice, and wow! The taste bursts out. Feeling virtuous after your healthy lunch, you can splash out with a real coffee (it’s not all decaf and herbal teas) and a deeply satisfying, dense chocolate brownie. The Eames chairs and plate-glass windows draw waiflike fashion people and Japanese tourists – it’s the new canteen for the Faubourg St-Honoré. But can all those paper cups and plastic containers be good for the planet?