Mushroom. Fucking. Risotto.

[CompleteBarstool]

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?

Small menu boards that consist of:
A burger
A pie
Fish and chips.
A chicken dish that sounds lovely until it’s served with some too out there and totally unnecessary sides/sauces.

I hate not having much to choose from.

For me it's pasta. Everywhere I go, the vegetarian option seems to be pasta based. With tomato sauce.

Ugh.

For those asking what veggie/PBWF should look like, look towards the East. So many many many ideas.

I like small menus. It usually means that they're going to do a few things well, rather than dozens of things quite badly, because it's all factory food.

I don't want to pay restaurant prices for someone to heat up a cheap ready meal.

Plus if there's only a few things on the menu, it's much easier to choose, rather than me thinking, well there's about 10 things there that I want to eat, and I have to whittle them down to one.

Oh yeh, mushroom risotto or stuffed peppers!

Both boring, unoriginal and stuffed peppers are so unfilling! I do feel most veggie/vegan food has come a long way, but especially at a "Modern British" restaurant you find a mushroom risotto and it's just rubbish!

I also hate quiche that is just a slab of egg. Gross. But what's worse is tart or tartlet which turns out to be quiche/slab of egg. I wouldn't have ordered it if I'd thought it was quiche! Especially because quiche is usually a slab of egg!

Mostly the options aren't any better than something you'd throw together as a mid week meal at home. That's the disappointing thing.

Anything with fucking aubergine in it. It's basically 100% slime.

Favourite is pasta dishes and don't skimp on the cheese.

I find the mushroom risotto craze has mostly passed and i miss it because i prefer not to eat wheat and i love mushrooms! I'm vegan now but when i was veggie my bugbear was the dreaded endless goats cheese, bleugh. Bean burgers are also pretty ick.

hate mushroom risotto here as well. I am not veg. DH is. Meals that make our heart sink are mushroom risotto; halloumi burgers and spinach and ricotta tortellini in restaurants that somehoiw manage to create interesting meals for everyone else.

'cauliflower steaks' for 8 quid (or actually £8.50 written 8.5)

I don't mind cauliflower steaks I just wish someone would acknowledge they should not be priced the same as an actual steak given they are probably about 40p's worth of food.

Stuffed peppers for me. For awhile that seemed to be the go to fancy vegi option, I’m not fussy at all but unfortunately peppers are the one vegetable I can’t stand!

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Anything with fucking aubergine in it. It's basically 100% slime.

You have clearly not tried waganmamas vegan katsu curry. It's an absolute delight!

But I forgot about jackfruit which is lumpy vomit from satan's digestive tract in my opinion.

Try being a veggie coeliac. All they can usually offer is a lick of the menu.

I recently cooked a Korean meal for my vegetarian teen nephew. Jasmine rice, spicy tofu gochujang soup, spinach salad banchan, aubergine gaji-Namul banchan made without the fish sauce, Korean veg pancake with vinegar soy dipping sauce, japchae noodles cooked without the meat element, and a tamagoyaki style egg roll with cheese on the inside. Not as much work as it sounds and a very simple cuisine to vegetarianify as Koreans are practically addicted to vegetables… but pre-made kimchi’s often have anchovies and fish sauce in them so I wouldn’t have it on the side unless homemade. (Although it is traditionally indispensible!)

sloppy, mushy texture

Clearly a very poor risotto then

@LunaNorth

Try being a veggie coeliac. All they can usually offer is a lick of the menu.

Yep!

I like mushroom risotto.
Worst veggie meal ever was on Malaysia airlines.

A raw pepper filled with cold plain rice.

More pescetarian these days (only white fish) but with a tomato/nightshade allergy and opting not to eat carbs is pretty impossible to eat veggie these days.

I lobbied hard for the local gastropub to do a veggie Sunday lunch that wasn’t pasta based. They didn’t even have a veggie gravy to go with the veg. I used to take granules with me.

They now do an amazing nut roast with a thick gravy, and the veggies get even more different veg than the meat eaters.

I make lovely mushroom risotto

@roseinthedark that sounds amazing! Any links to recipes?

@roseinthedark that sounds amazing! Yutaka brand kimchi is suitable for vegans 🙂

Agree with anything goats cheese. Does anyone actually like it?

@ThePlantsitter

'cauliflower steaks' for 8 quid (or actually £8.50 written 8.5)

I don't mind cauliflower steaks I just wish someone would acknowledge they should not be priced the same as an actual steak given they are probably about 40p's worth of food.

Where are you going that serves both those things for the same price? Although imo £8 for a main is good value.

Stuffed peppers

Mushrooms are disgusting imo I've been vegetarian for over 30 years and remember restaurants not being able to offer anything other than a cheese omelette or salad. Then there came the vegetable lasagne which wasn't too bad.

But I always begrudged (and still do) going out for a meal and having no choice of dish. Meat eaters could choose anything off the menu but vegetarians had to have whatever was on offer as an afterthought and vegans often just got a look.

It is at least better than it used to be then.

Even Toby Carvery can do a decent vegetarian and vegan selection.

You can get everything on the carvery without the meat (vegetarian gravy is available), or a toad in the hole or several pastry based options (this would annoy me because I don't really want pie, plus roast potatoes, stuffing and Yorkshire pudding, but at least you won't feel like they've under catered).