Vegetarian - eating out?

"Vegetarian meals are the most boring on earth apart from what is served in Indian restaurants."

This is what you said, lemongrove. The implication there is that vegetarian food is the most boring, but food served in Indian restaurants is even more boring.

But I wouldn't want to pay the same price for a tiny goat's cheese tart with a salad and chef's special beetroot as someone else's hearty steak pie with accompaniments

I must add IMHO which as they are my own taste buds is very much the case.

I said that I never eat meat in India.I also said that apart from Indian vegetarian menus that vegetarian food is boring.Which means, if I need to spell it out, that I find vegetarian food bland and uninspiring except for Indian menus.Simples.

Varian I put chopped sun dried tomatoes in with the asparagus. Tasty and gives it a nice colour.

Yes, a goat's cheese tart with a tiny portion of beetroot done in some kind of chef's way, I don't know how.

mmm beetroot, I have an urge to eat beetroot

sorry to those who don't like it.

At the same time Jalima? ?

How weird, lemongrove. Have you forgotten that you said vegetarian meals were the most boring, but now you have said that you eat them in India.
Delicious vegetable menus are vegetarian, are they not?

I love asparagus risotto, varian.

I eat meat but love a goat's cheese tart and beetroot

had, sorry!

which is probably a good thing.
Perhaps M0nica but my vegetarian friend has commented (and complained) a couple of times on the tiny portions she has chad in comparison to the meat dishes other people had - and she had to pay the same price!!

Just the truth durhamjen to my taste buds.Yes Smithy
It is the norm in India, although many do eat meat as well.
There are so many delicious vegetable menus that I never eat meat in India or in Indian restaurants.

Asparagus rissotto is delicious. I make a stock with the woody ends of asparagus, but sometimes cheat by liquidising a tin of asparagus and mixing with vegetable stock then adding fresh chopped asparagus stems halfway through and the tips near the end of cooking time. I always start with onion or leek and finish with some grated veggie cheese , butter or vegan marge, a little garlic and a lot of black pepper.

I found in India the vegetarian dishes were often listed first followed by meat meal choices - vegetarianism being normal in India. And the veggie dishes were out of this world! Long way to go though for a good meatless meal.

How nasty, lemongrove. Nobody is forcing you to eat one.

Vegetarian meals are the most boring on earth apart from what is served in Indian restaurants.

antonio-carluccio.co.uk/recipes/risotto-di-primavera-alle-verdure/

For those who don't like mushrooms.

antonio-carluccio.co.uk/recipes/risotto-con-funghi/

Ham and parmesan in a vegetarian risotto, railman?
You'll be suggesting the bits can be fished out next.

Why do people put mushrooms in a risotto.

Never been able to find one in Italy - and whenever I've seen on in the UK it just looks like decomposing tapioca

Ham, peas, peppers and plenty of cheese - especially parmesan, a good knob of butter added at the end of the cooking process makes it look like a proper risotto.

Have you come across Vanilla Black, Eloethan?
Cnacery Lane area; no idea where that is in relation to where you are.

For people living in or visiting central and outer London, we have been visiting these (exclusively vegetarian/non-chain) restaurants for around 30 years and have always found them good:

Vijay's Chawallah, Green Street, Forest Gate
Diwana, Drummond Street, Near Euston

(both more like upmarket cafes than restaurants but excellent food and very good value)

and for the last 5 years:

Tibits in Heddon Street, off Regent Street
(extensive buffet, food charged by the weighed plate) Very nice atmosphere and good value for the West End. I've just rolled back and seen this has already been recommended.

(I think Carluccios, though not exclusively vegetarian and a chain, is pretty good)

I find many places that serve vegetarian food but which aren't exclusively vegetarian are generally disappointing - and I agree about the often tasteless mush otherwise known as mushroom rissotto.

I don't eat meat because I just don't like it, it's a texture thing. I so find it funny tho, because when invited to dinner I mostly am served quiche and carrot cake !! If someone is doing a roast, I am quite happy with a plate of veg I don't even need a meat substitute. I don't have too many problems eating out but there are some venues that I would not return to because of a total lack of imagination ??

Unless it's a totally vegetarian or vegan eaterie, I never order soup. If you ask the waiters whether the soup's been made with meat stock, they will often say no without checking.