To expect hotels and restaurants to provide a decent vegetarian food choice!

[fifitot]

Have just come back from a weekend away and then 2 day course with work. Therefore ate a hotel for meals - both expensive hotels I might add.

Now am a longstanding vegetarian, I am not expecting a green gourmet style veggie feast for my tea every night, I recognise there are limitations on hotel kitchens etc. However I get fed up of bloody pasta every time!

There were only 2 veggy things on the whole menu at one of the hotels so rotated between pasta and salad!

One hotel had a set evening menu and for your £25, if you ate meat or fish, this was great value. However for the same price I basically got given pasta and tomato sauce - probably cost less than a quid to make.

Some places are better than others and will cook you something if you ask but lots won't and helpfully point out the salmon or other fish on the menu.

Just a little bit of imagination please!

Oh yes. The pasta with chopped tomatoes for £12.95 thing. Drives me mad. The worst is if we go out for a nice Sunday roast, and there's a choice of 4 meats with all the trimmings, you know, yorkies, roasts, veg, gravy etc, and the veggie 'choice' is....yes. Pasta in tomato sauce. Now this irks me no end because I really enjoy a roast dinner, and wonder how much hassle it would be to do a nut roast and some veggie gravy. Our local Toby Carvery isn't too bad for this, but so many seem to see veggies as some kind of afterthought.
Some restaurants are great though. Although we are off to France in the summer and I'm somewhat nervous now.

I went somewhere for XMas dinner do and they did the roast carvery thing and veggie option was stuffed pepper and then I was offered roast pots etc

My local Indian veggie options are a few £ cheaper than meat versions