Vegan and work night out

[ChockysChimichanga]

Genuinely a bit unsure if I’m being unreasonable here, hence the thread!

I’m organising dinner and drinks for a group of work colleagues. Nothing fancy, just food and drinks. The venue we chose is a local pub with a decent menu. However, one colleague has said he doesn’t like either of the vegan options and wants to go to a very different restaurant. No-one else wants to go there. Colleague has now announced he’s not coming and is annoyed with me.

I felt quite guilty initially and spent some time trying to find another pub/restaurant with more vegan food but there aren’t really any suitable and having slept on it, I now feel that he’s being a bit of a twat about it.

I get that he wants to have a nice meal (and in fact I’m vegetarian so I do understand) but there is vegan food there, he just doesn’t fancy it.

AIBU to stick with the original venue or should I try and accommodate him more?

While it is getting better, most vegetarians and vegan accept that their choices will be limited when eating out somewhere mainstream and they may have to make do on a big group night out. I have lost count of how many bean burgers and mushroom stroganoff/ risottos I've endured because that's the only choice! If you are both vegetarian/ vegan and fussy then you have to accept that sometimes you just go for a starter or drinks to be social