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Vegetarian - eating out?

(106 Posts)
Telly Thu 24-Aug-17 17:00:19

It seems to be that opting out of eating meat is becoming increasingly common, with just about everywhere offering some sort of vegetarian option, but why do they have to be so unimaginative? I have sworn that I will not eat another mushroom risotto! I do wonder how vegans cope?

NotSpaghetti Mon 21-Oct-24 07:06:03

durhamjen

Yes, it was just before we moved from York that they moved. I have been here seven years.
It's somewhere to go for a special treat, not an everyday meal. Unless you are millionaires, of course. Take someone you want to impress.

Or take someone you love.

NotSpaghetti Mon 21-Oct-24 07:22:43

I've been vegetarian from age 17 when I left home. I've never liked meat.

I don't often eat Thai food as the choice usually involves a sauce that's pre-made elsewhere and it contains fish in some form.
If you ask "is this using a pre-prepated sauce or paste" they usually admit it - so then you have to and ask them to go and look if it has fish in it on the label. It always seems to - even though the dishes are "vegetarian".

Oyster sauce is considered vegetarian in lots of places too I've noticed.

Restaurants also use parmesan - and that's not vegetarian if it's genuinely Parmigiano Reggiano.

Georgesgran Mon 21-Oct-24 07:26:12

THREAD FROM 2017 - resurrected by comment on a restaurant chain - SPAMMERS.

NotSpaghetti Mon 21-Oct-24 08:41:41

I can't see the spam Georgesgran
and lots of us are still interested in vegetarian dining anyway.
...maybe it's the message that was deleted?

Witzend Mon 21-Oct-24 19:12:16

maryhoffman37, I do so agree about the ubiquitous goat’s cheese tart! I can’t bear the stuff, either.