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• Excellent veggie self-service, but...

La Verriere is a freshly opened, self-service like vegetarian restaurant. It's a one of a kind in Paris, where most veggie options turn out to be either simili-burger joints, posh bistros or cold macrobiotic places. The space is big, white and full of light -- quite unusual for the French capital. It's part of a health center & art gallery. The food in itself is great: an amazing buffet and a variety of dishes and salads, all of this fresh and tasty, including homemade pies and bread. Maybe it lacked some gluten-free choices, as well as more beans & legumes. The prices are amazingly low for Paris, and particularly this part of the city: 10€ for the buffet (it´s not an all you can eat buffet, but you can fill up your plate as much as you want), single dishes around 7-8€, 25cl of red wine for 3,5€. Finally, the staff is warm and helpful, and the place run by real passionate lovers of food & cooking (not some stern nutritionists). Updated from previous review on Friday October 03, 2014 EDIT: the price have gone up. Last time, the buffet was 12€ instead of 10€, which was a little disappointing. Quality hasn't changed though, and is still very good. NEW EDIT: the price has gone up again, 14€, and unfortunatey the quality has gone down... The legumes options are still scarce, and the salad buffet & desserts didn't look very inspiring any more. Also, two times I came at a normal time (around 13pm, there was no more soup, and a third of the "tartes/quiches" missing). Maybe something changed in the cuisine/management? I'll come back yet again to double check this trend, but it doesn't look good. Updated from previous review on Tuesday April 14, 2015 Updated from previous review on Monday August 31, 2015 Updated from previous review on Monday August 31, 2015