PHYTO BAR 47 bd SaintGermain 75005 Paris

ROSE BAKERY 2, 30, rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris. Tel: 01.49.96.54.01. Closed Monday. About 18-25 euros.

THE garden of the Marsh, 22, rue Rambuteau, 75003 Paris. Tel: 01.42.74.24.66. Open every day. Menu 22.50 euros, map approximately 20-25 euros.

PHYTO BAR, 47, bd Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris. Tel: 01.44.07.36.99. Open every day. Menu 17.50 euros, map 20 euros.

THE small basket green, 8, rue d'Artois, 75008 Paris. Tel: 01.43.59.20.95. Open only for lunch. Closed Saturday and Sunday. About 10-15 euros.

Four tables Parisian vegetarian or 'bio', where is found the form with pleasure.

Just out of the tunnel of the holiday season, the beginning of this year is the ideal period to change the regime. The "détox" idea is required: a lunch or a light lunch in a small bio or vegetarian restaurant (their number has seriously increased the last two years). Bio of vegetable soup, fresh salad, a pie vegan vegetables or a dish of vegetables steam, to quench a vegetable, fresh pressed fruit juices, green tea or water filtered micro: this is what recover quickly in the form. Demonstration in the capital.

Temple of healthy living

Rose Bakery, the ultra bio bobo of the rue des Martyrs, opened in October last Rose Bakery 2 in the district he also very bobo children-red market. The atmosphere is just as Spartan as the parent. The room while length allowed, on the one hand, counter and fresh, on the other, an alignment of tables in plexiglas. Out of the kitchen Dishes full of vivacity and freshness, always welcome with pleasure. Base of vegetables for a beautiful balance, made of white rice, wild, spices and parsley, cucumber and Sesame rice, grated carrots and seeds of sunflower, parsnips, endives, and "butternut" roasted, quinoa and mushrooms, squash is also delicious in a restaurant "organic" of London or San Francisco. Desserts are the rider clear in their realization: crumble (with a base of Apple, but can contain according to the days of cranberries, etc.), the lemon pie... Brunch on weekends to the map.

A two steps of the centre Georges-Pompidou and close to several important museums, the garden of the marsh provides continuous service the weekend. Instead, a kind of vestibule all in length with very crude wooden tables with each other, is less austere than it seems. The kitchen is pleasantly unbridled celery Curry, full-bodied but delicious soup jumped vegetable tofu and quinoa (mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, Zucchini), tasty and hearty, etc. Bio champagne Fleury House honours the wine selection. Charming hospitality and service.

Next to a bio store belonging to the same owner, Phyto Bar, former troquet transformed into a temple of healthy living, part of the lighthouses of the Maubert district addresses. The kitchen is organic and natural, but not only vegetarian. Full trim, tofu, cereals, vegetables steam and raw vegetables, satisfies, and the macrobiotic plate (cereals, vegetables steam, lentils and algae), but the menu of the day often attractive is preferred by the regulars. In the evening, photophores placed on the tables give a sense of intimacy. Former bookseller in the Val-de-Marne, the friendly Korean owner opened his small canteen modern and very neat the small basket green in April 2007 in the 8th. Limited choice but vegetarian bibimbâp very convincing. In a large bowl, soybean sprouts, spinach, eggplant, cut in thin slices, carrots and courgettes mix with a big spoon of rice, that are seasoned sauces, a lean soy supplemented with balsamic vinegar, either made from a dough of pepper diluted with the juice of mushrooms, softened after cooking with ginger juice. A taste with a roasted green tea. Also discover the sweet (translucent and elastic) noodles, cooked with strips of leeks, carrots and mushrooms.