Pure Lotus Jing Xin Lian Jìng Xīn Lián

We went to Pure Lotus in September 2014 (we have already been there a few years ago . The food is very delicious and it is presented with great love for details. We had fried doufu, rice with herbs, dumplings (with gold foil! and a curry. And an iced tea and a really tasty juice. Great experience as usual and strongly recommended. Still the best vegetarian restaurant in town (although it would be nice if the menu would have pictures or a meaningful description . Unfortunately the prices are so high that we could only eat there once during our holidays (we paid about 174 Euro for two persons including drinks which makes this dinner easily the most expensive two-person-dinner in my life . I really hope they will lower the prices in the future ... BTW: Pure Lotus also provides a full menu which includes soup etc. The price for the menu was 799 RMB per person. When we come back to Beijing we probably will give it a try (although this will be even more expensive than the standard dinner ... .

This was great! The place is very nice, nice lightning, decoration, atmosphere, and the food is delicious, very elaborate. When we visited it was full of people. We order a lot of food, and it was about 50 USD per person [2012 prices] it was definitively worth it for the experience. Watch out there are some very expensive teas. The place is a bit hard to find so write down the phone number and ask your taxi driver to call the place to get instructions on how to get there.

This restaurant which is located close to popular Sanlitun area is unique place that really has the wow effect on people. Customers are normally welcomed by sprinkling fragrant water on their hands and sometimes you are given a real lotus flower when leaving. Restaurant has amazing interior decoration and even though it is really big it is almost always full, so making a table reservation in advance is a good idea. Menu is an art piece in itself. You may find some of the dishes bland, but others are just fabulous. Vegetarian versions of Beijing duck and Sichuan Kung po chicken are the best I 've had.

Came here for dinner in a group of three. It's hidden in the back of a parking lot, but very easy to find as you can see the big sign from the entrance gate. We didn't have a reservation and almost had to wait for who-knows-how-long for a table until they shortly found one available for a good hour or so. It was just by the door though, not at all a desirable spot. So do book ahead! The meal was quite a memorable experience. The menu was the biggest I've ever seen (literally) and had tons of dishes in it, so I just flipped through and scanned, too much work to study the whole thing and decide what to order. Instead, I asked the server for popular dishes and recommendations. We ended up having two appetizers (nori wraps and some fake cold cuts), two mains (Dong Bo Rou and stuffed tofu in a tangy gingery sauce), some rice, and a noodle dish in a tomato-ish sauce. Everything was good except for the noodles...I liked their texture, tasted like one of those hand-made Chinese wheat noodles; problem was the sauce, too bland, didn't really go with this kind of noodles, and the ingredients were all mushy. I highly recommend the cold cuts and the tofu dish though, really yummy! We rounded off our meal with a carrot cake (with cream cheese frosting) and a vegan chocolate cake, both were scrumptious. While the food was decent, the presentation and the decor trumped it all. This is THE restaurant to come to if you are looking for a wow factor. I was also very impressed by the uber cordial service. The total bill for our meal came to around 510 RMB, wasn't bad at all by western standards, and it was well worth it in my opinion.

Main thing about this place is just the venue/atmosphere. There really arent many vege places you can go that make you feel youre somewhere special or where you'd go for a special occasion. Pure lotus definitely fits the bill in this respect. The decor is v cool- loungey chairs, eclectic mismatched furniture with curtains around some of the tables reminiscent of arabian tents. Lighting is subdued and they play old films on a large screen. The staff are dressed in all manner of strange clothing inspired by monks outfits and various other buddhist style stuff. All in all a very cool atmosphere for a vege place. Menus are ridiculous, they probably weight over 5kg. Biggest you've ever seen- guaranteed. The food descriptions can be very confusing so it's difficult to order well. I've had some quite boring dishes but also some great ones so it pays to order carefully. The Peking/Beijing roast duck is one of the best I've ever had. great duck, nice pancakes. The potato wedges or chips (or however they describe them) are actually with blackpepper steaks and a extremely nice. I never normaly order this sort of weestern food from a chinese place but it's lovely. There is another dish called black pepper steak on the menu but it cost about 3 times as much and must surely be the exact same dish but much bigger. the 45 rmb dish is enough for 2 easily. They give you free fruit and some other snacks so you may not need many dishes but there are dessert options if you need something. I had a vegan chocolate cake once that was good but havent tried any others i dont think. All in all this is a fantastic place to come- the food is good if not quite amazing, but the whole theatre makes a great occasion of coming here.