Ou Bien Encore
A Geneva vegetarian and vegan cafe near Plainpalais, serving wholesome plates, cakes, juices and a gently polished brunch mood.
Ou Bien Encore is a Geneva cafe with an excellent name and the good sense to live up to it. Near Plainpalais and the city’s museum quarter, it is a vegetarian and vegan-friendly address for wholesome plates, cakes, juices, tartines, salads and the kind of brunch that makes a second visit feel like common sense.
Expect an eco-chic interior, heartwarming plates and an extensive menu, with the vegan-mayonnaise burger and salads as standouts. The plant-forward identity covers vegetarian and vegan cuisine, desserts, fresh drinks and a weekday daytime rhythm that suits Geneva’s polished-but-practical tempo.
This is not the place for performative deprivation. It is the place for avocado toast, tartines, cakes, chai latte, fresh juices and the agreeable feeling that lunch can be both pretty and useful. Vegans should still read the current menu closely, because the kitchen sits in the vegetarian-vegan spectrum rather than presenting as a single hard line.
What Ou Bien Encore does best is make plant-forward eating feel urbane. There is no hemp-sack theatre, no moral lecture, just a bright cafe where the food is careful and the room has enough style to keep things from drifting into canteen territory.
Use it as a pause between galleries, errands and lakefront wandering. Geneva can be formidably expensive; a good vegetarian cafe is exactly the sort of civility one should applaud.
