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Mushroom. Fucking. Risotto.

392 replies

CompleteBarstool · 01/08/2021 12:40

We're on a rare trip away, been looking forward to it for ages especially about having some lovely food.

Now I discover tonight's veggie option is mushroom risotto. Mushroom. Fucking. Risotto.

What's the meal that makes your heart sink?

OP posts:
Ddot · 03/08/2021 07:19

Mushroom risotto, lasagna and jacket potato with cheese. Nothing wrong with any of them but come on put some effort into it, I want something special too. Thee thing I hate the most is going for sunday lunch and my option is PASTA

HumbugWhale · 03/08/2021 07:27

[quote Mothership4two]@pteradactyl

Veggie here
A sodding bean burger
Shove your bean burger up your bum

I hear you sister!

Or a lasagne/generic veg pasta dish or vague veg chilli. Agree with other posters that butternut squash is bland.

The other thing that makes my teeth itch is restaurants and pubs that never change their veggie option. Our closest pub has had mushroom risotto (yep that one) and bubble & squeak, asparagus and a poached egg on the menu for 5 years (both delicious but yawn let's try something else). We are on holiday at the moment and some of the family want to go to a lovely village pub, but it has had the same 2 veg options for about 12 years! I know it's a year since we were last there, but my heart sinks when I go in and read the menu.[/quote]
This annoys me too, the idea that I wouldn't want chips with my burger or the same roasties and veg the meat eaters are getting and that I would prefer a side salad. I see salad as a bit of a chore! It's weird too because when I worked in a pub the chef got really arsey if I allowed someone to swap a side of chips for a side of salad because salad was more expensive.

sue20 · 03/08/2021 07:43

veggie burgers or pizza.

I don't want bread based for my dinner. Usually bad quality bread at that.
A well made risotto lovely but it's the "one option" which is downright insulting.

Ddot · 03/08/2021 07:54

I once orded a vegetable tower, a medley of Mediterranean roasted veg, oh something different I thought. Roasted my arse, touched by a pan maybe. I put my fork into the aubergine and my plate was flooded with brown water 🤢. I sent it back but my partner said the chief would come out, I knew he wouldnt, how could he justify that crap.

pashmina696 · 03/08/2021 07:58

Glad it's not just me - so many horrors over the years... hate mushrooms so if it's mushroom risotto I ask them to make something else... noticed some posters saying eat in a vegetarian restaurant- unfortunately we don't always get to choose!! The rest of my family are meat eaters and whilst we do eat in veggie restaurants on occasion often they get to pick a restaurant or it's booked by a friend or family member- the new vegan only option really annoys me and I was checking afternoon tea options in lovely hotels near me and the vegetarian options had gone.. in favour of vegan ones with oat cream and vegan cheese!!! I am pretty furious about this!!!

Ddot · 03/08/2021 08:00

Oh I could tell you about some horrible meals out BUT if you want a smashing meal and your ever in the north try, THE WAITING ROOM near Yarm, teesside. Its fab absolutely fab and the atmosphere is great too. Right near eaglescliffe train station. Worth the travel.

Fedinbed · 03/08/2021 08:46

Why don’t you look at the menu online before you go and choose somewhere else if the veggie options don’t appeal?

PurpleDaisies · 03/08/2021 08:56

@Fedinbed

Why don’t you look at the menu online before you go and choose somewhere else if the veggie options don’t appeal?
It’s not that easy if you’re going out in a group and you’re the only veggie.
LodgerDodging · 03/08/2021 08:58

@Fedinbed

Why don’t you look at the menu online before you go and choose somewhere else if the veggie options don’t appeal?
Not always possible when you're out with a group of family/friends/colleagues or are out for the day and drop in somewhere because everyone is hungry. Not difficult to imagine surely.
OchonAgusOchonOh · 03/08/2021 09:02

@Fedinbed - Why don’t you look at the menu online before you go and choose somewhere else if the veggie options don’t appeal?

Can't believe none of us ever thought of that!

There are a number of reasons. 1. We don't always get to choose the restaurant. 2. Most of them do the same veggie option. It's like there is an announcement to all restaurants - veggie option is no longer pasta with tomato sauce. It is now mushroom risotto. 3. It's wearing having to ask for something that's not an insult. I actually went home early from a work thing held in a small town with about 5 restaurants, all of which, bar the Mexican one, had mushroom fucking risotto as the veggie main.

KittenKong · 03/08/2021 09:03

I love mushroom risotto. But I won’t eat it outside as I have had way too many gritty ones 🤢

I hate it when the veggie options are all vegan, as is becoming quite common these days. Meaties get more choice now and everyone else gets one choice! It was slowly getting to the stage where there was a few choices for veggies - but it’s definitely going the other way.

NavigatingAdolescence · 03/08/2021 09:04

@Fedinbed

Why don’t you look at the menu online before you go and choose somewhere else if the veggie options don’t appeal?
I’m off to a popular seaside town for a week next week. I must have looked at about 200 restaurants in the area and would estimate 80% don’t have menus online.
BarbaraofSeville · 03/08/2021 09:07

Where are you all eating? 1985?

Just about everywhere I've eaten out within the last few years has had an actual vegetarian menu that's at least a third or even half the length of the main menu and there's a good few restaurants and takeaways that are completely vegetarian. It's probably quite hard to get a mushroom risotto if you do want one, I haven't seen it on a menu for years.

AtomicBronde · 03/08/2021 09:10

There are a few Indian Restaurants I have added to my choice of places to visit, when we go to London. Their veggie options sound AMAZING!

I’ve been literally drooling over their menus.

I do love paneer cheese and spice though, also love tofu (if done right) in Chinese food.

PurpleDaisies · 03/08/2021 09:13

@BarbaraofSeville

Where are you all eating? 1985?

Just about everywhere I've eaten out within the last few years has had an actual vegetarian menu that's at least a third or even half the length of the main menu and there's a good few restaurants and takeaways that are completely vegetarian. It's probably quite hard to get a mushroom risotto if you do want one, I haven't seen it on a menu for years.

Congratulations on living somewhere vegetarian friendly. Is it really that hard to imagine that we don’t all live in the same place and some of our towns and cities aren’t so forward thinking?

My local pub currently has a goats cheese tart and as starter and butternut squash and mushroom risotto for main as their only vegetarian options. Both say they’ve got Parmesan so they might not even be properly veggie.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 03/08/2021 09:52

I ate in a very fancy restaurant a couple of years ago (not my choice) and got goat's cheese and beetroot rissoles to start followed by beetroot risotto. Amazingly common to have the starter and main featuring the same ingredients. I would prefer a bit of variety.

Another, very highly rated, but extremely traditional restaurant (again, not my choice) offered all sorts of amazing choices to meaties. I was offered ravioli. I asked was it made on the premises. No, they bought it in. They offered to make me something else. The chef suggested, wait for it, mushroom fucking risotto. It wasn't a bad risotto but, yawn.

Starlabear · 03/08/2021 10:03

I'm an omnivore but have lots of friends with dietary needs so tend to go with where the they can eat. We have all agreed that one especially annoying thing (similar to veggie burger = no chips) is the assumption that people who can't have gluten/dairy also want to avoid sugar!
Also soy is in everything 😕

Chris08 · 03/08/2021 10:11

OMG that’s exactly how I react when I see mushroom fucking risotto as my only option!

ParrotsAteThemAll · 03/08/2021 10:11

Chickpea curry, served with a small sad pile of very boiled rice and a naan that snaps when you ‘tear’ it.

Now vegans are 10 a penny there’s very few cheesy options like there used to be, no vege lasagne or Mac n cheese! I like a vege buger but not when the burger is just a big mushroom…and there’s no cheese on it!!

senoritarita · 03/08/2021 11:03

I love it now but am a meat eater. I was veggie for 20 years abs grew sick of mushroom risotto

And mushroom bloody stroganoff

LodgerDodging · 03/08/2021 11:05

It looks like I'm in the minority but I love 'meaty' vegan burgers. I don't see them as meat or similar to meat as... Well they're not meat are they? They're just a different food product that to me is a lot more pleasant than crumby, flaky breadcrumbed burger shaped things.

I went to a local chain pub a few days ago. Options encompassed vegan pizza, a vegan option pie and a veggie burger. Veggie burger was gross. I had it because they'd ran out of pizza (how?)
Given Yates and 'spoons are fantastic for vegetarians and vegans I can't even cut them slack for being cheap and cheerful.

Slothkin · 03/08/2021 15:24

Oh fuck @Starlabear is soy sauce not always vegetarian?

Slothkin · 03/08/2021 15:27

Panic over here, my usual brand is vegan, phew.

Elphame · 03/08/2021 15:32

@Slothkin

Oh fuck *@Starlabear* is soy sauce not always vegetarian?
No you're safe. It's vegan. Smile

Soy though is problematic for some

amispeakingenglish · 03/08/2021 16:58

I often wonder why so much vegetarian food is encased in pastry????

Also why is it always GOATS CHEESE??? Who thinks just because you are a veggie you want stinking horrible goats cheese???

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