The Veggie Table is a great place to while away the afternoon, with its homely and relaxing atmosphere. The mushroom burger was good (although the patty fell apart very easily) and the fries were crispy and a clear winner. The juices and coffee are passable.

My main gripe is that it is WAY too expensive for what it is (easily over 100RMB per person for something to eat and 1 drink, pushing 150+RMB if you get another drink). So whilst I would like to be a weekly Veggie Table customer, its exhorbitant prices prevent me from being so.

My experience was consistent with many other reviews: overpriced food and decent taste. The menu also didn't have quite the selection I was hoping for. Surprisingly, there weren't really any salads listed.
I'd only be excited about this place if they take 15rmb or so off most items, and add a little more variety.

We have been quite curious to try out this restaurant for a while, however it is closed many times when we pass by. Finally we tried, and we surely regretted it. We ordered sundried tomato pasta, (60kuai), and vegetable curry, also 60kuai, both were inedible, not to say exuberant pricing for ingredients costing less than 5kuai. The pasta used perhaps one to two sundried tomatoes, blended, with absolutely no flavour, and way too much oil, that it tastes just like the 5kuai fried noodles you can find on the street, at least they don't charge you vegan tax. The curry, was simply the worst curry we ever had, with mainly potatoes as the ingredient.

We also ordered the baba ghanoush, which looks and tastes the same before as well as after digestion, and poorly severed. I also ordered a peanut butter shake(40kuai?!), which was just full of ice, so much for a smoothie. If you're looking for a good smoothie, go to grandma's kitchen for an amazing thick shake, with real ingredients, for nearly half the price.

The environment was also pathetic, with so much music dissonance enough to make me to throw up. The service was also dismal, with the food being served in the opposite order. This was not to blame the staff as they did sincerely try their best, but I guess it's hard to stay motivated while the curly manager was lounging around reading city weekend as the remaining staff runs around like headless chickens, which is ironic for a vegan restaurant.

In total we spent 300 Kuai for two, with only one drink (non alcoholic), which makes this the worst valued restaurant in beijing, if not china.

On the way out, we noticed that we were not the only unsatisfied mouths, as most dishes were left untouched.

I'd give the restaurant a minus five rating if it were possible, it's a wonder that this restaurant is still open.

By the way, if you notice the review by 'veganpunx' was suspiciously fake, I'm pretty sure it's written by the owner of the restaurant. Don't be naive!

China is possibly the world's best place for healthy, tasty vegan food. Go into any half-decent Chinese restaurant and they'll offer you dozens of excellent vegan dishes for about a third of the price of The Veggie Table. Naturally, on food, service and price, The Veggie Table just doesn't stand up to the competition.

The food is small and not particularly inventive. Most of the dishes are "fake meat", "fake cheese", and "fake coleslaw" rather than a natural celebration of delicious vegetables. The food is not filling: not from a lack of meat, but because it's small, cold and flavourless. By comparison, the vegetarian Chinese restaurant just 300m to the west of this one (in the opposite hutong) has a much better selection of dishes (and is always crowded).

The service is bizarre. They told us the wrong subway exit multiple times on the telephone then met us with a mixture of surprise and confusion when we asked to sit down. I felt unwelcome.

We paid an extortionate 90 yuan per person (120 with drinks). For half that price, you could order vegetable-based food from any reputable restaurant and ask them to, "make sure it's vegan". There are many great restaurants in Beijing (especially the one I mentioned above), and most of them would comply. I left The Veggie Table feeling ripped off and hungry, and ate ¥8 noodles on the way home.

The furniture is not vegan. The sofas are so deep and soft that they'll swallow any human being who sits on them. I can't eat lying down. Going to this restaurant was quite an unpleasant experience.

I love vegan food. I cook and eat vegan food at home every day. Recipes that disguise vegetables as meat are destined to disappoint. Vegetables should be hot, cheap, tasty and filling without looking like meat, and that's a skill that The Veggie Table has failed to master.

This is a simple place where you could get vegetables though a huge variety but nothing is delicious.
The prices can talk about if the food is really good which doesnt. So there is no reason to visit this place at all.

Went to VT with 5 friends last night, and I was very disappointed with both the food and the service.

The place had a number of customers, but wasn't heaving in any sense of the word. Meaning, it wasn't that busy. Despite that, we had to wait upwards of 45 minutes for our starter platter of 5 spreads and some pitta. Drinks also took 15 minutes, with subsequent refill orders being forgotten as soon as the waitress walked away, requiring re-ordering 10 minutes later.

I didn't try the dips, but my friends said they were really good.

Our main courses arrived about 25 minutes after we had finished our starters. I originally wanted a vegetable curry, made without hot spices, but was told that they are all pre-made and can't be changed. If things are pre-made, why does it take so long to serve everything?

So I ordered the mushroom burger, and while everyone will have their own tastes, I have to say it was the worst thing I have eaten in a long while. The bean burger was somewhat better, but still not something I would ever order again. The side of potato wedges were also not good, seemingly to have been made from old potatoes, and very under cooked.

Everyone wanted dessert, so we ordered one each of the three desserts they had on offer, the fondant, the carrot cake and the chocolate cake. The fondant was probably the worst, having been made 100% organically (whatever that means) with what ingredients I do not know, and almost everyone around our table agreeing it was terrible. The chocolate cake was only a bit better, but seemed to have been sitting on the counter under a class lid for the majority of the day, judging from it's very dry texture and almost complete lack of taste. Finally, the carrot cake did actually taste like a carrot cake, abet very stodgy and too moist.

So yeah, maybe others will like the taste of the food there, but I would definitely not recommend this place. One of my accompanying friends, who was a frequent customer there, said the bad service was simply because they were not used to or equipped for the level of business they have received since various magazines publishes stories about them. Sorry, but if you put that number of tables in your restaurant, then you should have enough, well trained staff to cater for that many customers. And if you're not ready for the the amount of business that courting the media will generate, don't talk to the press until you are.

So. Lots of hype about Veggie Table. Foodie friends were all atwitter, internet people were banging on about organic produce and one burger-loving food critic cinched it for me with his glowing shiitake-sammich review. So I dragged my Dining Companion there one Sunday lunch, and severely regretted the Y155 plus round trip taxi fare.

Service -
Slow. Ridiculously slow. The place was full but not beyond capacity, and they were slow. We waited for menus, water, and eventually for about forty minutes for food. I get that you're new and busy, but c'mon, we ordered a dip. It shouldn't take half an hour to come out.

Food -
Unimpressive to awful. The ajvar dip was just OK - the flavors didn't pop, the pita bread it came with was cold. Dhal bhat had a nice mix of veggies and lentils, but was under-seasoned. We added salt, but it still tasted fairly mediocre. Mushroom burger was a gluey, grey mess that rather made me want to hurl two hutongs later. Good baked potato wedges but. All up, I can't believe I paid what I paid (and waited how long I waited) for under-seasoned lentils and "mushroom" paste.

Ambience -
Fixed-gear bikes next door give appearance of hipsters inside. Hipster rating: Skinny Black Jeans in Summer.