Elaichi Vegetarian Street Food

C'est l'adresse VEGAN pas cher par excellence. Dans ce restaurant, le rapport qualité/prix/quantités est vraiment justifié, contrairement à d'autres restaurants ...
L'accueil chez les indiens est une approche avec un savoir-être au service des clients. C'est un vrai plaisir de retrouver cela dans une ville aussi active que Paris après être parti en Inde plusieurs fois. On s'y sent vraiment bien.
Les propriétaires ne sont pas végan mais flexitarien et ils l'assument clairement et veulent offrir la possibilité aux parisiens d'accéder à une cuisine indienne végan avec des légumes bio à moins de 10 euros. Le bar incroyable situé à l'arrière est omni.
bref je recommande!!

I had dinner at Elaichi and enjoyed my meal. You have to choose 4 out of 6 dishes to put in your plate, most of them being curries, vegetables and rice. They were good and portion are generous. I also tried their samossas that were good even if they use pastry sheet instead of dough. For dessert, I took the vegan milk rice that was simple but good too. On the whole, I enjoyed the experience, the waiter was friendly, the price was really fair and you can have some Indian beer. The choice is rather limited but it worth a try sometimes when in the area.

Le concept est totalement vegan et bio selon le serveur qui nous l'a indiqué plusieurs fois. Cependant il est possible d avoir des nans au fromage (partage avec un autre restaurant ? ). le restaurant est également l entrée d un bar à cocktail. Nous avons pris les entrées (samoussas et raita) et le plats -possibilité de choisir 4 légumes. Le ambiance est agréable et le serveur sympa.

Visited in October 2016.

Elaichi is a fully vegan cantine serving indian food, which is something Paris didn't have (yes, the name is misleading).
It's located very close to the Strasbourg-St Denis station on metro lines 4, 8 and 9; and it's walkable from Republique station.

They offer about 6 different dishes (curries + rice/lentils) each day, and also side dishes such as samosas, raita, roti, etc.
Desserts include halwa, rice pudding or tapioca.
There are two sets to choose from, one costs €10 and includes 1 appetizer or dessert + small portions of 4 dishes; and the second set costs €12 and includes all of the above.

On the day we visited we had curries of aubergine, potato, pumpkin, zucchini and red lentils; and also the rice pudding and tapioca.
We found the food not to be spicy, compared to what normal Indian restaurants offer; but it worked for us.
The desserts were ok; too bad they didn't have Halwa available. We also had a lassi and a lemonade, which were quite good.

The cafe is not so big (accommodates around 20 people I guess); and, as I understood from the staff, during weekdays it gets busy; so if you could make a reservation that would help.

The staff was friendly and attentive; and assured me many times that they are vegan, even by explaining the ingredients they used.

Strange restaurant. We went because the food was all vegan. When we went it is buffet-style and you choose 4 (out of 6) curries which you can eat with rice or roti. I would have preferred that you could choose less (like 2 or 3 curries) as I wasn't that hungry for 4). During our meal we found out that the room at the back was a separate omni restaurant. The waiter insisted that there were different kitchens for both restaurants (personally important to my family) but a waiter from the other restaurant brought a plate out so I am really unsure about this. If we had known this earlier we would've gone elsewhere. The waiter also kept encouraging us to go to the omni restaurant which to us was a bit WTF (maybe this was because he wasn't veg*n). The food was okay, pretty bland but they do give some chutneys which are quite spicy.

Updated from previous review on 2016-09-18