Mesa
HOY Paris’s plant-based restaurant, serving Latin-influenced, locally sourced food with natural wines and low-waste cocktails.
Mesa is the table at the centre of HOY Paris’s softer, more holistic universe. The hotel is known for its yoga studio and pared-back rooms; the restaurant carries that same mood into the kitchen, with plant-based food that feels festive rather than corrective.
Mesa carries a Franco-Mexican influence rooted in founder Charlotte Gomez de Orozco’s heritage, with a menu developed by Lauren Lovatt and Carolina Rodriguez of London’s Plant Academy. MESA de HOY now sits around Latin American roots, conscious and locally sourced ingredients, small independent producers where possible, and a “no shortcuts, no chemicals, no compromise” approach to plant-based cooking.
That could sound pious in the wrong hands. Mesa keeps it pleasurable. Expect bright, nourishing plates, seasonal produce, natural wines and brewed-batch cocktails on tap, designed partly to reduce waste. The restaurant also works across the day, which makes it useful in a city where plant-forward dining can still swing between saintly lunch and elaborate tasting-menu theatre.
The address, 68 Rue des Martyrs, helps. This is Paris with a little neighbourhood rhythm: coffee, dinner, a private room if you are gathering the right people, and enough Latin warmth to loosen the city’s sharper edges.
Come for plant-based Paris without the hair shirt. Stay for the rare feeling that wellness has remembered how to flirt.
