Vegetarian restaurants and hotels guide
The worldwide guide for vegetarian, vegan and veggie-friendly restaurants, cafes, hotels, guest houses, pubs and shops. Whether you are looking for a vegetarian restaurant, vegan cafe or veggie friendly hotel this is the site!
We identify restaurants and hotels that make a genuine effort to cater well for vegetarians. We currently have 2328 vegetarian restaurants and hotels listed, together with 2924 reviews
Should veggie restaurants cater for vegans?
Now and again I get mails from people annoyed/slighted/surprised that a veggie restaurant doesn’t cater sufficiently for vegans, if at all.
My personal opinion is that veggie restaurants that don’t cater for vegans are missing a trick. Vegans are really easy to cater for: when I ran a café with my sister, we made sure that most of our veggie dishes were suitable for vegans. As a vegetarian, I love vegan food and probably cook a vegan meal for my family two to three times a week. I don’t like cheese or eggs with everything. When I eat out, I worry about the provenance of the cheese and the eggs anyway, so I’ll always choose the vegan option if there is one.
However, vegetarian restaurants are at liberty to run their places as they please. If you are vegan, it makes sense to check with the place beforehand. You might then avoid the veggie lasagne or jacket potato with cheese that the rest of us have to put up with.
If you do find a place with great vegan options, please don’t keep it to yourself - put the place on the site if it’s not there already and post a review. Then we can all benefit.
Comments (2)
I used to moan about the lack of vegetarian options like you said, having only boring things like lasagne or cheese omelette available.
Since i became Vegan 4yrs ago i never knew how easy i had it as a vegetarian!!
Most times i go out now i can have only potatoes usually as chips or a salad with no dressing. So all you vegetarians do not moan about your baked potato with cheese and give a thought to us vegans out there!!
I think that if people are not eating flesh for ethical reasons, they should really look into the dairy and egg industries too. They are pretty horrendous, i was in denial for 25yrs as a vegetarian thinking that milk and eggs were perfectly ethical if i bought "organic" and "free roaming" types but the reality was that i was kidding myself!! Oh well keep up the good work, i found a great vegan restaurant from this site.
Previously
If the vegetarian restaurant is vegetarian for reasons of animal welfare, it will provide vegan food, because dairy produce is far more cruel than meat produced To high welfare standards. However it may be catering for those who simply do not like meat or prefer not to eat it for health reasons... in which case they may not care about the cruelty of dairy produce
Posted by mary | February 1, 2010 12:07 AM