I'm used to vegetarian places going above and beyond on taste and freshness to draw in non-veg folk. This place smashes that stereotype with a fistful of mediocrity. Combine the joyless hog-trough experience of your average Old Country Buffet or nameless Chinese buffet, with the pretentious pricing you'd expect from someplace with hippy inclinations, and you've got Le Commensal.
I opted for the cheaper hot plate, and picked up small doses of potatoes, seitan, broccoli au gratin, chili, rattatouile, and fried rice. Having not put any of it in my mouth yet, I was contemplating going back for seconds, until the register rang me up at $15. I continued to my table, hoping to get my $15 worth from the taste, but it was not to be. Everything was soggy, bland, and tepid. The rattatouile was indistinguishable from the chili, the broccoli unremarkable, the seitan salty and limp, the potatoes cold, the fried rice utterly without flavor. I shoveled it down and got the heck out of dodge, never to darken their door again. I'm leaving two stars in the assumption that the food probably won't make me sick, but given the chef's obvious apathy, handwashing has to come into question, so I reserve the right to upldate this in about 8 hours if need be. tl;dr - go just about anywhere else.