Tous Les Jours: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Tous Les Jours works well if you’re vegetarian, since the bread and pastry case that makes up most of the business rarely touches meat. The catch is a handful of items with vegetable-sounding names that hide fish sauce or pork, so you need to know which shelf to skip.

What to order at Tous Les Jours

The Multi-Grain Loaf and Olive Basil Loaf are both officially plant-based, making them vegetarian and vegan. Milk Bread, soft rolls, croissants, and cream cheese breads are vegetarian, built on butter, milk, and egg. The Egg Salad Sandwich is a solid vegetarian lunch option, and the Plantastic vegan mini cakes, in Raspberry and Blueberry Chocolate, show up at participating stores for a genuine vegan dessert. Coffee and tea drinks made with Oatly oat milk are vegan too.

What to watch out for

The Kimchi Croquette looks like a vegetable dish but contains fish sauce, and the Croque Monsieur is filed under Bread even though it’s built on ham. The Bulgogi Sausage Roll, Spicy Sausage Bread, and Garlic Ham Cheese Bread all contain meat despite sitting in the same case as the vegetarian breads. If you don’t eat dairy, the Caprese Sandwich has an unconfirmed rennet type in its mozzarella, and Cloud Cakes and mousse cakes may use a gelatin stabilizer, so ask before ordering either one.