Végét'Halles — Restaurant in Paris

This place was amazing!!!!!!! I had my very first "fake chicken" and it tasted amaziiiiiiing! I went for dinner so I got the evening menu and have no regrets. They have a ton of different choices so I had a hard time choosing, buuuut I want to try the fake prawns next 🤩 I'll definitely go back as often as possible and try and bring my friends. Honestly the food is so tasty that I bet even non-vegans/vegetarians would like it and enjoy eating there! I'll try to bring my dad next time he visits 😉 Also definitely recommend as a place to visit when in Paris and vegan/vegetarian and want to actually sit and have a meal and not just a quick bite. The staff is super friendly and nice, the place is super central (literally next to Châtelet and Les Halles), and quite spacious for Paris standards. Another plus point is the bathrooms! They're big, clean and nice. They are used to parisians and tourists, so much so that even their menu is English/French. In terms of accessibility, I would say it gets a 7/10 as it could be slightly difficult to get into the restaurant but once inside there's plenty of space. 10/10 for...

Vegetarian restaurant which seems to specialise in lots of fake meat/fish dishes using soya, seitan etc. Some vegetarians aren't really into that sort of thing, but I quite like the textures of these kinds of foodstuffs, as well as the reassurance I'm actually getting a decent helping of protein without lots of fat. I had the vegetarian "chicken" - kind of nuggets I suppose. My wife had the vegetarian "fish" which I think was a daily special. Both dishes came with similar sides of quinoa and some kind of lentil ?) puree, plus a few sauteed potatoes. I wasn't too keen on the quinoa, but the rest of it was fairly good. Also enjoyed the ocean salad (with vegetarian "shrimps") as a starter - we shared this, it was pretty large.

I think I really want to give it a 1.5 for food - "very good" might be overstating it a little, but "good" is perhaps underselling it slightly. We had been to Le Grenier de Notre Dame a few days before this, and I think of the two I preferred this place overall. The menu here seemed more appealing - I'd like to come back and try some different dishes - and it was...

I have eaten at this restaurant before and the food was alright. I was back in Paris again, and being a vegetarian it's hard to find food around here so I went back to dine here.

The place was fairly empty and the person who seated me came back saying that his colleague would be back to take my order. Sure enough he was shown where I was seated and he walked past me at least 5 times just checking on the other already seated guests and ignored me. Then the initial waiter came out and looked at me and went back inside. He and the other waiter were seated at another table having their dinne . How ridiculous is that. Finally I had to voice myself out a little louder so that I could be attended to. Not the way customer service should be.

Finally another waiter came out and took my order. The food was nothing great. I'm never going back...