Vegetarian meals - An unusual thing?

[Night Train]

I am going to the Manchester Music Awards with my girlfriend tomorrow to see if our theatre group have won any other nominations. Having bought tickets last week, I still don't have them and have been assured that they won't be neccessary as the seating is by name. I have no other information about the do, so I decided to phone the venue and check.

Among other things I asked about the food for the evening as my girlfriend is vegetarian. I was told that special dietary needs would have to be requested by our group organiser and that the special food would be provided for the named guest.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that in this day and age that a major event should have a proportion of vegetarian meals, and other options as a matter of course? It isn't as if being vegetarian is a rare and unusual thing.

It make me think of times in the past when a vegetarian was frowned upon and then offered chicken instead of meat!

 

[longers]

I think it's unusual that a vegetarian option isn't available "off the shelf" so to speak.

Went to a fantastic vegetarian restaurant once with a dubious friend, the waiter convinced him despite what we told him, that what he wanted was a slab of meat substitute. It was crap. Ours wasn't.

 

[Night Train]

We went to Greens in Didsbury last week. She thought it was wonderful that she had the full choice of the menu and not just one or the other of the two dishes with a little green v next to it.
The Greenhouse in Rusholme is really good too but it has been years since I've been there.

 

[Aperitif]

This place is good - if you happen upon Edgware in North London

I haven't eaten meat / fish (deliberately) since the Animals film was on Channel 4 when it first started broadcasting in 1982 - I think.

 

[Helly79]

my hubby and I had the same problem when we went on an aeroplane to Ibiza a few years back we did order two vegetarian meals but they only had one and they asked if we would like a chicken curry or something like that.

 

[Aperitif]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

When I flew to Argentina some years back, on Air Italia, the vegetarian option for breakfast turned out to be ham and cold runner beans .
The non-vegetarian breakfast was cereal, croissants, etc.

 

[John the Monkey]

Eighth Day Café in Manchester is good, as is that place near the university I can never remember the name of :/

Not a veggie myself, but can appreciate well cooked food regardless of what's in it...

 

[Keith Oates]

I have a colleague here who is a strict vegetarian and I sometimes feel sorry for him when most of the restaurants give him a plate of tomatoes and cucumber for a meal and we are eating some really good food. Actually sitting next to him on official company type dinners is good because he also doesn't drink (alcohol) but the waitresses still keep filling his glass, so I help him out from any embarrassment by drinking his as well (Hic) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Night Train]

Well, I've had no joy sorting out a vegetarian meal via the correct channels of going through the group organiser for our theatre so I phoned the venue direct and insisted, nicely, on the food being sorted out.

I generally don't buy or prepare any meat for my own meals anymore and haven't done for many years (nor do I actively or deliberately cause the death of any living creature I can see), however, in a Bhuddist way I will gratefully accept any food that is offered to me.

I will look up the Eighth Day Cafe and see what it is like. Thanks.

 

[domd1979]

Another vote for the Eighth Day...

If in Brum The Warehouse Cafe in Digbeth is worth a visit as well.

 

[Canrider]

This place was great when they were in York. Now, sadly, relocated to London:

http://www.vanillablack.co.uk/

 

[dan_bo]

Earth cafe at the buddhist centre's a good un an all NT.