Me and my
wife currently honor a couple of New Year resolutions. Two are related to our
eating and drinking habits. For one, January will be our dry month – meaning no
alcohol for the first 31 days of 2018. The other one is to adjust our eating
habits towards more vegetable, less fat and sweets. At least for January, I am
therefore trying a bit of a diet by reducing my meat intake, albeit not
canceling it for good of course. This however does not mean one cannot eat well
and go out dining. Also in Frankfurt, there are plenty of good healthy food
options and the vegetarian/vegan trend did not go unnoticed in our city – even
though it might not be as hyped as in Berlin.
One great
place to eat and stay in our January diet is Vevay. This is a contemporary vegan/vegetarian
restaurant right at the heart of Frankfurt’s financial district. It is located
directly at Willy-Brandt-Platz in downtown, administratively still belonging to
the Altstadt. I have to admit that I never really noticed it despite its
prominent location and me passing by there many times. It is a small place, but
has two floors. It seems popular and thus crowded. One is definitely advised to
reserve beforehand. We went spontaneously though and were lucky to get a seat,
not upstairs, but fair enough.
The interior
is modern and has been decorated with a great attention to detail. The menu is
written with chalk on a blackboard and offers innovative dishes – salads,
noodles, falafel burgers – featuring classic ingredients of the healthy
lifestyle cuisine: beet roots, hummus, avocado, lentils and so on. They also have
a few breakfast options, but I am sure their main business is during lunch time
as the blue-collar people descent from the bank towers surrounding nearby Taunusanlage.
Vevay has smoothies and coffee – to take-away – as well.
We chose to
go for a quinoa wild rice dish and the Vevay platter. The first was rice – refined
with plenty of small vegetable cuts – below some delicious pieces of avocado,
sweat potato, beet root and parsnip. The other was an assortment of salads and
lentils with a falafel ball, hummus, guacamole and couscous. So overall, it was
a wild mix of everything healthy and trendy. But it worked well and was
delicious. Importantly, each ingredient was prepared with great care. For example,
the lentils were not overcooked, the falafel not too fatty, the rice refined
with nice extra ingredients. To sum up, it was a tasty visit that left not only
my stomach satisfied but also my mind, because I know that I respected my diet
while still enjoying eating.
Style: Casual
eatery/Dinner
Cuisine:
International
Location: Altstadt
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen