Croissant Marche - Hiroshima

When we arrived at 3:30pm we were too late for their lunch meal, but still they were so nice to make us fresh vegan bento boxes! Very friendly staff and good food!

I longed for a healthy vegan menu after having had vegan Okonomiyaki the previous day and found everything I wished for at Croissant Marché. The dine-in area is small but I didn't have to wait for a seat when popping in around 13:00. The bentos and the desserts for dining in had already sold out by that time, though. I opted for the vegan set menu with five vegetable sides nad no dessert that comes at 1.000 ¥ plus tax, i.e. 1.100 ¥ in total. The food was very good. The soup had a round and rich umami flavour. The brown rice with some adzuki beans was so sticky that even someone with little chopstick skills should easily be able to eat it. The veggie selection came with a little pot of ground sesame that I could add to my liking, and it perfectly fit the little salad on the top left. I am not a big fan of mock meat in vegan meals, so I was a bit irritated by two of the five items on the veggie plate looking like mock meat. The taste then was better than expected and not as meaty as I had feared, but I would have preferred less processed vegetable dishes instead. The content of the veggie plate obviously changes with the season, so you might happen to get one without mock meat. I browsed the little shop after my meal. It has a great variety of vegan products that you can grab for eating in your accommodation in case you have access to a kitchen or at least a microwave and a kettle. I bought an Iburigakko (smoked pickled radish) that I had with some bread from Andersen's later and it was delicious!

A small shop that sells different vegan items. Unfortunately all the bentos were gone by 4:30, when we visited. Be sure to get there early if you want one.

They offered a 2 different vegan bento. I also found vegan chocolate (iChoc chocolate and even vegan ramen (labeled as vegan in 3 different flavours (soy sauce flavour and miso and sesame flavour . The staff was very nice. The second time I went there, I wanted to buy vegan bento once more to bring with me the next day because I was going to Okunoshima and I needed to bring food, but it was already evening and they didn 't have more bento to sell and they opened at 10am and I would be gone before that time. So the woman told me that she will be at the shop since 8:30am and I could come and she will have my bento ready. And that 's exactly how it was. Updated from previous review on 2022-08-23

Nice little shop with lots of vegan groceries you can buy.They have vegan bento box( that sadly had sold out) and other little salad pots that are vegan. I got a vegan quiche and blueberry cake that both tasted amazing! It’s quite small so there’s not a huge eating area but it’s nice and cosy and ran by a very sweet couple.