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Healthy fast food à la française is yours at Cojean, where the food is both good and good for you. Owners Alain Cojean and Fred Maquair take their food seriously and turn out daily fare that appeals to both hard-core vegetarians and freewheeling carnivores. It has become a popular lunch destination and may in time help to improve the street, which houses several peep shows and sex shops. It is perfectly safe during the day, and you don't have to worry about the night because Cojean is closed. Seating is at chrome-pedestal bar tables in a large room decorated with changing art exhibitions and pots of wheat grass. Meat is featured only in the club sandwiches, never in the four daily soups or the two or three plats du jour. Try the roasted vegetable sandwich, a winning combination of eggplant, tomatoe, zucchini, spinach, onion, and the house pesto. Salads and quiches are popular orders, and so are the pastries, which are made by a pastry chef formerly at Lucas Carton. If you don't want to have wine or beer (theirs is from Brittany), go for one of their inspired fruit drinks. Everything can be eaten here or bagged to go.
Comments courtesy of Great Eats Paris by Sandra Gustafson, (c) 2004, Chronicle Books LLC.