Vegetarian - eating out?

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

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?

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

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.

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.

I really love the Wagamama Dishes!

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I'll eat mostly vegetarian when having Indian. One of our village pubs does a great Portobello mushroom with grilled halloumi, aioli and spinach burger. Delish!

I was a vegetarian for about 8 years in the 80's and DH hated taking me out for a meal because he was so concerned about the lack of choice for me. At the time, you had a choice of a salad or vegetarian lasagne. No wonder I went off the rails and tucked into a roast turkey sandwich on white bread one Boxing Day! Glad to see things have improved over time.

Lots of chain restaurants now offer a much wider selection of vegetarian and vegan food clearly labelled - Wagamama, Wahaca, The Real Greek, pizza Express has a vegan pizza, as well as lots of vegetarian ones.

My main gripe is that often there is chilli added to a perfectly nice vegetarian dish for no good reason. I hate chilli! I also find the vegetarian option in pub restaurants is often something that I would make at home with leftovers. However, I accept that I am in the minority and the owners have to make a living.

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I must have gone before you, in the late 70s, studying environmental science.

My 10 year old granddaughter caught me with that one today when she phoned up after she had got home from school. Apparently it's part of year six syllabus, to teach them not to believe everything they read on the internet.

Tree octopus, ha, ha. Excellent website, I haven't seen it before and was taken in for a moment. Thank goodness for Google!!

Apocryphal perhaps but it was the very early days (1980s) when the Centre was two ramshackle buildings and some muddy fields with very avant garde displays about living sustainably and we were so thrilled to find vegetarian food that we read them all avidly and admired the quick thinking of the chef! Nowadays vegetarian gastronomy has become mainstream and mushrooms seem bottom of the barrel (or perhaps flower pot!).

You'll be telling us next that there are tree octopuses for them to chop up.

zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

I don't believe that, Azie. It's obviously one of those apocryphal tales.

I hate it that people assume vegetarians eat mushrooms. I dislike the taste, I've also never quite got past a story told in the early days of the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales - the staff menu called for mushroom omelette but there were no mushrooms so the desperate chef collected some slugs, chopped them up and used them, apparently the only comments were that 'mushrooms' were a bit gritty!

Not as fussy as me. I'm vegan. Not even mushroom quiche, although I love mushrooms.

I know durhamjen, there is normally some sort or fish or a chicken dish. I know I'm fussy, but I have never had a problem before, and I don't like to make a fuss

Surprised there was no fish, Nannykay.

I suffer from IbS and cannot eat beef, pork or lamb, which is fine I am happy with chicken and eat most fish. I am also slightly lactose intolerant so have to be careful of my dairy intact, and mushrooms are the only veg I can't eat. Imagine my disappointment when we went out for Sunday lunch this week to the local pub, the menu was, roast beef/lamb/pork or vegetarian option, mushroom quiche ?

There is a new veggie pub, the walnut tree, thwaite nr eye which looks interesting. Quite a way from me, will try and get there some time.

Telly, that does not appeal. And what a rip off too!

In East Anglia we like the Three Blackbirds, Woodditton, New Market area. Lovely food.

I live in East Anglia. to prove my point yesterday went to a posh(ish) place for lunch and had parsnip soup, followed by a mushroom gnocci (can't seem to spell it) £ 27 thank you. I actually think I dislike gnocci more than risotto!