AIBU to hate the veggie option?

[BabooshkaKate]

It's always halumi.

Why? Why must it always be halumi?

How many different ways can you do halumi?

Why do restaurants never think outside the box?

As far as I know Dixiewishbone, kale is a vegetable, like cabbage, not a seaweed, and the Irish people I know don't have strange seaweed seeking tastebuds.
"Do Irish people like seaweed in their grilled cheese sandwiches?"
To me you sound racist and rather sneery in that post, generalising that way.

Maybe ask for your post to be deleted as it breaks talk guidelines.
Substitute Blind/ Jewish/ African Americans/ deaf/ Chinese for Irish and you have your answer.

It's always goats cheese or mushroom risotto here for set menus. The one cheese that I don't like is goats cheese, I hate it in the same way that people hate brussel sprouts. The smell and taste coats the back of your throat and nose and can only be obliterated by several glazes of wine.

Mushroom risotto is dull but edible.

Bah, you lot don't know you're born. I'm vegan and recently attended a wedding where the vegan option turned out to be..... pulled pork. As in, actual pulled pork from an actual pig.

They were very apologetic about it (turned out they'd mixed up coeliac and vegan ) but still!!

I always take the view that a boring option won't kill me for one evening (curiously there is always something I can eat).

We have a couple of restaurants around here that have several types of veggie burger on the menu. Chickpea, spicy bean, lentil etc so there must be a big enough market.

Abel I'm not going to a club Christmas do because the menu was so laden in meat and cheese. Apparently I could have had the "veggie" starter minus the cheese filling and parmesan, and the main minus the 7 meat options/cheese bake and stuff cooked in dairy or goose fat. An empty baked bell pepper followed by two vegetables. Well worth £25. Will be going out for a nice meal with DP instead.

Luckily a lot of places around here do decent vegan friendly options, and our favourite beach trip pub does a really lovely stew with these potato dumpling things that are so good.

I'm one of those "moaning minnies" that can't eat spicy food though. Even a very mild curry would leave me in agony for the rest of the night and probably the day after too. Some people really can't eat it. It's improved a bit as I have gotten older but having people whinge at you for being fussy until you point out your body turns into a volcano raining liquid fire out your ass and everyone gets embarrassed gets tedious.

I used to work as a chef in a place that served different food every day depending on what had been sourced locally and fresh that morning, that was its USP.

Our most popular vegetarian dish was a lentil Shepardless pie! Not a slice of cheese in sight.

Inspired by this, I've just checked out the menu for a pub I was planning on going to for a pre-Christmas catch-up with friends. The only vegetarian main? Butternut squash and quiona salad. SALAD. For Christmas fucking dinner

Contessa I feel your pain but I just spat tea reading that

Our work Christmas do veggie option for once is edible but it's mushrooms. Thankfully I adore them, but for those of you who don't like them, this would be hell. Also it doesn't say explicitly that the suet is veggie!
Mushroom & spinach suet pudding with white truffle oil, root vegetable, thyme & cannellini bean cream sauce.

My usual complaint is that the veggie option invariably has nuts in. And phoning ahead to see if they can do it without usually gets me the comment that they don't actually make it on the premises so no they can't.

And then there's the puddings that you suspect have gelatine in but nobody actually knows... sigh

It could be worse, you could be a vegetarian who's allergic to mushrooms like me.

We were going to do something like this at Xmas for veggie friends.

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/creamy-root-vegetable-and-chickpea-crumble/

With all the other Christmassy dinner stuff like potatoe and leek dauphoise, various roasted veg, etc.. or are they going to think 'wtf'

I'd be thrilled with that!

That was for Artandco

I still remember going to Rick Stein's fish restaurant when I was vegetarian, ordering the sole vegetarian main, and thinking it was the best damn thing I'd ever tasted. It was a flaky kind of tart. Beautiful. Quantity of options or choice doesn't matter if the quality's there.

I own a restaurant and we are in the process of re-doing the vegetarian section of the menu which imo isn't good enough. Chef is resistant, and hasn't come up with anything very inspiring.

I'd be really grateful if some of you could give me an idea of 3 vegetarian/vegan options you would like to see on a menu?

I love halloumi and goats cheese. What I object to is the constant bloody mushrooms.

So what would you like to see on the menu?

Give some examples please so I can offer fabulous options to my veggie and vegan friends when they come to dinner.

YANBU! I can't eat cheese at all so most veggie options at restaurants are a no go.

I went to a Christmas dinner once, the vegan pudding was oranges in Cointreau, all very nice, but then they put cream on it.

Sounds good to me, Art, I love chickpeas and parsnips

foxtrot what kind of food do you serve?

Ignore the random ? in there. I edited it about 50 times....

Speak Fine dining, with a lower key 'gastro' edge at lunch time. Hill walking area so hot and hearty is very popular at lunch. Evening people prefer something a bit more special.

I'm a chef and all the dishes we do are made from scratch. Our most popular veggie dishes are the balti, cheese and veg bake, and garlic mushroom lasagne. We also cater for school groups do have a lot of dietary requirements to deal with, and it can be very testing to make dishes that suit everyone, that won't end up wasted.