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.

[oopslateagain]

We used to go to a lovely little bistro-style restaurant where there were no vegetarian dishes on the menu at all. You simply asked the waiter for a vegetarian meal, and the chef would come to your table and chat about what you fancied eating today - he made the most amazing veggie meals.

[spg1983]

Well nothing yet from the hotel on their Facebook page but the question has attracted quite a lot of attention! 2 more posts and 33 'likes'!!

[Melpomene]

OP here again. After breakfast I asked a waitress about the plate of carrots.

Me: I saw on your dinner menu there is a vegetarian option of a plate of carrots. I'd that just a plate of carrots, or something else?

Waitress: it is a plate of carrots, but not as you know it. There's carrot and sweet potato mash, a savoury carrot cake, and grated carrots with...swede...or something. It's very nice.

[5dcsinneedofacleaner]

do you know I love carrots - if it was what the waitress described I would order it!
It sounds like one of the dishes they do on masterchef - "carrots three ways"

[Cahoots]

It still sounds mostly like 'a plate of carrots' albeit vamped up with the addition of , err, more orangy root vegatables

[NorbertDentressangle]

PMSL at Tiggy D'Amour's comment on their facebook page

[JugglingWithPossibilities]

Sounds like they were trying to be understated in their description, but agree "Carrots three ways" might have sounded more tempting.

[Namechangeforapropertythread]

But no protein?

[JugglingWithPossibilities]

Or maybe after all this attention, Mumsnet, Facebook etc. they've quickly decided to fancy up their carrots a bit

[ErikNorseman]

Carrots three ways?! PMSL. That's 3 side dishes, not a meal. And I wouldn't choose three carrot based side dishes anyway.

[TiggyD]

Anybody on here ever had a carrot threeway?

[fallingsun]

So it sounds like a main course of mash and coleslaw?!with carrot cake?!for £13?are they crazy?

[MichelleObarmy]

'Carrots three ways' sounds like some sort of torturous BDSM practice.

12.95 for a plate of carrots, though...that is a BRAVE piss taking price.

[AnnIonicIsoTronic]

Rofl @ the Facebook

(& it's also so meeeean towards some hapless duty manager having to deal with this somewhere!!)

[AnnIonicIsoTronic]

Op - if I PayPal you £12.95 will you go & order it & post a full review with pictures?

I know otherwise my curiosity will get the better of me & I'll find myself on the train heading to Bedford...

[MissWinklyParadiso]

TiggyD I actually knew some people at uni that had a carrot four-way...

OP please let Ann paypal you and review!

[ToffeeCaramel]

It's carrots Jim, but not as we know it...

[fallingsun]

Should this thread be linked to the Bedford Swan somehow so the management can understand how poor their vegetarian option is?can it be linked on their facebook page or something?!

[Melpomene]

Sorry, we've left the hotel and are back at home now so it wouldn't be possible for me to order it even if you paid me! I don't think I would have wanted to have it even if someone paid me, anyway.

[FeckOffWithYourXmasBollocks]

Tiggy! norty norty!

[thenightsky]

Ahhhh.. they have got back to me on FB!

'Plate of carrots is a warm carrot mousse , carrot & potato terrine, spiced & coriander carrot cake, butter sauce, baby carrots, carrot puree, I will post a picture of one Chef has just made'.

[joanbyers]

don't they have any other vegetables?

[Woozley]

Sounds great. Can I get a side of broccolli with it though? :)

[SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood]

Have they never heard the saying 'variety is the spice of lifex'?
And that does sound suspiciously like what the poster further up the thread said

[joanbyers]

parsnips, say?