To be disappointed with a veggie only menu?

[Chewbecca]

We booked an event at our local wine shop ‘summer Mediterranean supper club’. £45 for 3 courses including paired wines. Menu tba.

Event is tomorrow and the menu has arrived today and it is 100% veggie. I do enjoy veggie food but can’t help but feel a bit ‘short changed’ and my committed meat eater DH is really unimpressed.

It is a fab venue with great owners that always put on a good evening.

AIBU to be disappointed?
Would you tell the venue you were a bit disappointed?
If you would, how would you say it, terribly nicely?

Thanks.

I wouldn’t be annoyed about a veggie only menu, but I would be annoyed at that menu. Smacks of trying to get insane markups to make money rather than any thought at all going into the wine/food pairing. I’m going to guess the wine will be shite also.

Would you say to a vegetarian What's wrong with having a non-vegetarian evening?

Obviously not

Vegetarians don't eat meat. Meat-eaters can and do eat vegetarian food.

Not quite sure why saying that makes me arrogant though 😂

I'm dairy intolerant and cannot abide the taste of goat cheese, either, so wouldn't be able to eat any of that but would never go with a 'tba' menu for that reason, but honestly, that menu sounds disgusting. I sure wouldn't go back. Cheap.

It would depend how much you paid. If I paid steak prices, I’d be disappointed to get cauliflower.

That’s a good point Caterins - OP you should double check with the venue.

Meat-eaters can and do eat vegetarian food.

I can’t think of many vegetarian dishes I would happily choose to eat. I don’t eat vegetarian food.

If there's gelatin and parmesan in the cheesecake it isn't even vegetarian!

Yeah I would be disappointed too, I feel like bloody veganism is being forced on us at all angles.

I occasionally get recipe boxes and they sent plant based butter! I’m not a vegan don’t force it on me. I make the choice to only eat responsibly sourced meat/eggs/dairy.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve chosen veg dishes on menus before and I’ve made the chocie to eat at vegan/vegetarian restaurants but that’s my choice. I’d be fuming to Op to pay that much money for a vegetarian menu,

*choice

@Yabbers

So you only ever eat meat? No veg, no pasta, no bread, no grains? Most food is vegetarian. An omnivore saying they don't eat vegetarian food is bloody ridiculous.

LadyRannaldini "Food-faddists"?! Goodness, that's quite the gem.

The difference is that meat-eaters do consume the ingredients present in vegetarian dishes (specific cases excepted, of course), so that's not the same thing at all.

It's the equivalent of saying all mammals are animals, therefore all animals are mammals.

A food evening without a menu available before booking seems like it wouldn't keep many people happy. And as others have said, that's a lot of dairy-based dishes, I'd associate Mediterranean cuisine with fresh produce.

@Yabbers
Goats cheese salad? Macaroni and cheese? Cheese on toast? Mozzarella sticks and salsa dip. Margarita pizza?
Cous cous? Pea risotto? Tomato soup? Lentil soup? Sweet potato soup? Literally thousands and thousands of good without meat.... Do you not eat vegetables? Fruit? Salad? Bulgar wheat? Pulses? Nuts? Do you literally eat meat alone for breakfast, lunch and dinner?

I'd be just as happy with a vegetarian menu as a meat based menu, maybe happier since good vegetarian food is often tastier because it isn't relying on a slab of meat doing the heavy lifting.

But I would be disappointed with that menu. It's not particularly inspiring.

This isn't about whether you are happy to eat a vegetarian meal or not. This is an evening out and not cheap. And in this occasion yes it is an unreasonable menu.

I would be annoyed.

Are you sure that's the complete menu and they haven't just sent you the "vegetarian" one? I do like vegetarian food and I might choose a vegetarian menu myself, but I would expect to be told before booking if a (non-vegetarian) eatery didn't plan to include at least at least one meat or fish course.

There is only one menu for all...

Probably also relevant is that a wine tasting usually costs £25 including (substantial) nibbles so, say removing the cost of the nibbles at £5, I think I am expecting a £25 meal.

chochoc It really isn’t pushing veganism, this is far from a vegan menu.,

I would feel shortchanged too. Unless it was marketed as vegetarian wines I would assume it was to reduce costs, £45 a head even with 3 glasses of wine I would be expecting a good cut of meat, not just chicken either

My first thought was to agree with you, but the menu sounds fab!!!

maybe I am just hungry today

Fair enough but I do think we’re gearing towards more of this pandering. It feels like pandering to the vegetarian/vegan obsession that ppl are currently under.

You need to hang-out in a slaughter house for a while.

No need for this. The OP wasn't asking if it's okay to eat meat. This is not a debate on vegetarian vs meat eater.

OP even for a vegetarian menu it's shit.

I'd have to eat beforehand and go without with all that dairy. It's just a boaktastic menu.

YABU. I really don't get the attitude that food is 'lesser' in any way because it's veggie. I say that as an omnivore.

I do though think this specific menu sounds a bit boring, but I'm imagining there'll be nice salads for substance and variety.

YABU because that cheesy menu sounds like my idea of heaven and I want to go!