Ladurée Beverly Hills
An entirely Plant Based French Restaurant
Last March, we drove up to LA from San Diego to run the LA Marathon. Since we rarely brave the traffic to go to LA I had asked my husband if we could make a trip to Beverly Hills to eat at Ladurée. Why would I want to do that? Well it is or was at the time the only completely plant based Ladurée location in the world & being vegan it isn’t easy to find good vegan French food, especially croissants & macaroons. After finding them on Instagram I had been dreaming of visiting this incredible restaurant.
We drove in to Beverly Hills after picking up our race packets with no reservations & or any idea that we would need one. We were just hungry & really wanted to get some yummy food.
So on that note, I will say, we were extremely lucky & got the last table as a walk-in. We waited about 15 mins before being seated watching super yummy dishes being brought out to other diners.
I would recommend heading over to open table to get a reservation if you want to eat at the location. Note: at this time I believe it is only outdoor seating but they are also doing carry out & delivery via delivery services in the Beverly Hills/LA area.
The menu while not huge does have a lot of options & we could have tried everything honestly, but it is an upscale restaurant that isn’t inexpensive. This definitely was a splurge meal for us but looking back now, it was an incredible meal to have as our last in restaurant meal.
From bottom to top:
Ladurée French Toast - I love French Toast and it’s really hard to find vegan French toast so I jumped on this. Ladurée french toast has raspberries, pistachios, rose flavored coconut whipped cream & raspberry sauce. It was incredibly yummy and the rose & coconut in the whipped cream were incredible mild which was a huge plus (neither of those are my preferred flavors). If this version doesn’t float your boat, they do have 2 other versions of French toast as well, classic & chocolate.
Ladurée Omelet - Vegan eggs have become a lot more popular in the last year but last year they weren’t as easy to come by especially in a restaurant setting. When we were deciding what to get we thought it would be cool to keep on with Ladurée’s signature dishes & picked this omelet. It is gluten free & made with mushroom, tomato confits, tofu ham & cashew gruyère. This was probably the best omelet I have ever eaten vegan or real egg. It literally melted in your mouth & was so flavorful. It doesn’t look like much on the plate but it did not disappoint!
Lastly was the Ladurée Club, we got this thinking that the other 2 entrees probably wouldn’t be super filling & since we were sharing everything it was a hood idea to get a more filling option. The club came with a side salad & fries in addition to a pretty decent sized sandwich. Made with tofu ham, lettuce, tomato, avocado & rice bacon it was super yummy. I was never a fan of ham before going vegan but the tofu ham was really good as was the rice bacon. As a fry addict I can tell you that these were really yummy fries & the salad was nicely & flavorfully dressed.
Overall we really enjoyed our meal. But it wasn’t over yet!
We had to get dessert! I mean how could you come to a fancy French restaurant & not get dessert lol.
We chose the Tartelette Passion Framboise with passion fruit cream, fresh raspberry & a sweet dough crust. It was incredible a super yummy flavor, the passion fruit & raspberries were a great combination.
Looking back I wish we had tried a different pastry for photo sake because we had 2 raspberry dishes but this was incredible!
Last on the list was getting macarons to go!
We got a mix of different flavors, vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel and lemon, to take back to my sister in laws place & then cut them all up to share.
They have a few other flavors, raspberry, rose & hemp but we didn’t get those instead getting a few extra of our fav, passion fruit.
If you are looking for a great & a little fancier plant based restaurant for your next visit to LA, look no further!