England (Veg Dining)
Monday, January 16th, 2012I am originally from the UK and have visited far too many places to recount each city at this point. I will attempt to do so at some point. But there are some simple tips for finding vegetarian food in england. In every town in england you will find one or more Indian restaurants. You will always be able to find vegetarian dishes here as most hindus are vegetarians. Just go to the vegetable section of the menu and there will be at least 5 main dishes to choose from. If you can, do a veg thali, or order 3 or 4 dishes for your table with an order of naan and rice. You can never go wrong with dishes with eggplant (baingan), spinach (saag), chick peas (channa), or potatos (aloo). If you are a vegan ask your server if the sauce is cream based, as some of them are.
Just like indian, you can usually find a chinese takeway in each town. Here you might need to ask the server which dishes are vegetarian if they don’t have a vegetable section called out, but I am sure they will be able to make you one meat free if you ask.
In england due to the large indian population even the pubs will have at least one vegetarian dish, as will the sit down restaurants.
Also some fast food treats that you can get that are veg are cheese and onion pasty, vegetarian cornish pastry. Even in the fish and chip shop you can usually get veggie burgers, peas, fries, mushrooms, and beans! You may have a harder time fiding vegan food however, as cheese and dairy finds its way into most everything.
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