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.

A little present. this is gorgeous if you like honey. And so easy to make. I serve it with a sharpish fruit of some sort because it’s very sweet. Definitely works as a posh pud if well presented.

Too dairy heavy, not enough variation. It's like having a ham starter, chicken curry main and steak pudding for dessert.

Also if £45 is what they always charge, I'd also be a bit annoyed because it's quite cheap ingredients for the price. I don't mind eating veggie but given that meat and fish are typically two of the more expensive things, I also expect to pay less.

if you're so fussy you can't eat any vegetarian food (which would make you exceptionally fussy) you shouldn't sign up for a meal unless you've seen the menu so you know it can cater for your very particular tastes.
At no point did I say I would. My first response was on whether the OP is AIBU. Which would depend on cost IMO.

Oh and, again with the attempt at shaming. Save your words, they won’t hit here.

I think it's a bit weird to even advertise a 'supper club' event without even stating in advance what the menu was. I think it's fair to assume that most people wouldn't expect a vegetarian menu though unless stated in advance (and I say that as a vegetarian) so can understand why you are a bit miffed. I also think it's a bit rubbish to put on a £45 menu and not have any choice in what you are eating. My DH hates cheese for example, and would be buggered if he went to an event and that was the menu.

Vegetables are so often viewed as sideshow to the 'main event'. Shame. I eat meat but I love veg and would be perfectly happy with a vegetarian or vegan menu.

The vast majority of people who claim they don't like any vegetarian food are just incredibly childish. There is no way the planet can support us all eating meat everyday so pretty soon those people will just have to grow up

Ooh look, another one. MN sure does like the superiority complex 😄

I’ll be fine. Apparently everyone here wants to gorge on cous cous and mozerella, so them stopping eating meat will bring the figures down enough to save the planet. I’ll concentrate my eco efforts elsewhere and together we’ll hit the right balance.

Vegetables are so often viewed as sideshow to the 'main event'

Not on my plate. Often loaded with veg, just usually smothered in a lovely meaty gravy.

I love vegetables, but so what if some people dont?

I’m a veggie but wouldn’t expect this, Mediterranean makes me think seafood.

I wouldn’t be disappointed. Food doesn’t have to contain meat to be good. Try it, then moan. If you don’t enjoy the food because you missed having meat, then tell them, not before you’ve even tried it.

Yes this is not Mediterranean. I would expect lots of fruit and vegetables and probably some fish too. Not a heavy based dairy meal.

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

How would one go about that? Also, I don’t think it would bother me at all personally. I’m not an idiot, I know my meat comes from animals and they have to die and be butchered before I eat them so how would visiting a slaughter house work? You’d have to be pretty stupid to not know what to expect and for that to be enough to put you off. Unless it’s a really sensitive gag thing, I imagine it would stink a bit.

I’m definitely not going to complain in advance and even if I do have a moan after, it will be a terribly polite comment, not a complaint per se, more feedback for future events. We will definitely return, maybe just not to their supper club events, will stick to the wine.

It is a wine shop with a few tables in, about 15 covers.

I don’t mind at all not knowing in advance, I eat anything (including this whole menu), this place is very popular and the events sell out quickly.

Thanks for the recipe bertrand, looks v nice and I like ‘make in advance’ puds. I probably wouldn’t choose to serve it after a feta cheesecake though!

That really cheap. If anything I would feel more confident in the quality of the ingredients if they’re all veggie.

You think £45 for a 3 course meal with wine pairings is really cheap??

The absolute attention seeker in this thread.

Anyway imo eating out is the perfect chance to try new dishes. Instead of the same old stuff you can just do at home.

Sound horrendous booking a meal/wine tasting event without knowing what the menu is

If a wine tasting there typically costs £25 then the food here is £20 for 3 courses, surely that's pretty cheap, say £10 for the main and £5 for the pudding and starter. You're not going to get fine dining for those prices. I live in the NE and can't remember when I last paid so little for food.

I can see why you would be disappointed.

I mostly eat veggie and recently went to a wedding with veggie food only and loved it, but I wasn't paying £45 for it and I knew beforehand it would be veggie.

I think they should have made it clearer, it's almost false advertising.

I read Boggles comment "That's really cheap" to mean they are serving cheap food, certainly not worth the cover price. It doesn't sound appetising at all as a meal even though I like the individual components. Personally I'd cancel explaining why.

Except it is in reality more than £20 for the food. Because part of the £25 for just wine will be the cost of occupying a table - the fixed costs. These remain the same whatever is being served.

Okay cheap food makes sense. Sorry I thought you meant the price was cheap.
I would also expect more wine at a wine tasting than at a paired wines 3 course meal.
I would not have expected very expensive ingredients, but maybe a main course with some fish and a nice tomato salad. Cheaper starter, and something cheap to make like fresh meringue and cream.

There is a ‘welcome drink’ as well as the 3 paired wines. Hopefully a fresh cocktail of sorts.

“Cheaper starter, and something cheap to make like fresh meringue and cream.”

Why are meringues and cream better than a semi freddo? Practically the same ingredients but much duller! (Depending on the flavour of the semi freddo of course!)

Veggie only is fine, but god that is a boring menu!