to find this vegetarian menu option rather uninspiring?

[Melpomene]

Our family are going to stay in a hotel tomorrow night. A relatively smart place, with a spa and a '2AA rosette award winning River Room Restaurant'. The dds and I are vegetarian, so I had a look at the hotel's menu on their website. The options for main course include:

• Line caught skate wing pan fried with capers, lemon, nut brown butter - £17 (sounds nice if you eat fish)

• Roast cornfed chicken breast, sage, onion, bread sauce - £15 (sounds nice if you eat chicken)

• Plate of carrots (vegetarian) - £12.95

To be fair, they do also have a tomato risotto - but on what planet does a 'plate of carrots' count as a main course? And how can you justify charging £12.95 for it?

I think we'll be visiting a restaurant in the town instead.

Plate of carrots? That's beyond awful.

Vegetarian option is always risotto if it's posh. Goats cheese tart for middle of the road aces and pasta bake if it's a pub. That seems to be rule!

That's terrible. I'd be tempted to tell them. Even tomato risotto is a bit of a crap choice.

Thats so funny!

Noodleone - you forgot the veggie all time classic of mushroom straganoff

Maybe they just don't want to cater for vegetarians?

that's so unbelievably crap that I didn't believe you until I googled!
please accept my apologies for questioning your honest nature.

I think someone has been taking the piss and forgotten to delete it. I would be incredibly disappointed with tomato risotto as well though. I'd phone them tonight and ask for an alternative to be available.

Pmsl :)

noodle yes risotto or something with goats cheese seem to be standard options round my way - it does my head in!

But a plate of carrots? Seriously? Yeesh!

Plate of carrots

Unless the plate is made from carrots and has loads of Fat Duck style carrot mini-dishes on or something?

Bet Heston thought of that.

Maybe it's like 'carrot three ways', roast, mashed and gratin

Yes, it could be some sort of selection of carrot dishes. Still not very appealing though.

Or maybe it is some sort of Christmas joke and they're pretending it's a menu option for visiting reindeer?

That's hardly a meal! Absolutely no protein for a veggie. You'll be starving again in an hour.

My DS would pick that if it was in the menu, he loves carrots.

I was on a work trip once in the Alsace region of France and there was a big dinner with traditional food - sausages, sauerkraut etc. the vege option was just a plate of cabbage!!

In light of the price, I would hope they would be gold plated carrots....

24 carat carrots?

That is unbelievably bad. Surely it HAS to be a joke? Am gobsmacked at their audacity.

Are they expecting an influx of rabbits?

That's horrendous.

My local steak house has better options than that.

That's dreadful.

They can't even be bothered to give it a fancy title like carrot d'orange or les petite carrots sur la plate.

That's so awful it's funny! Link and shame OP

Plate of carrots? I'm veggie and would have to phone them up and ask what the hell that is when it's at home.