Does anyone still have problems eating out as a veggie/with dietary requirements?
My main gripe is going to events or work related team outings. No matter how many times I have sent out emails or mentioned that i'm a lacto-veggie, I still turn up to the events and the meals always tend to have limited if non-existant veggie options.
Take last Monday. I went to a country club in West London as part of our Department's Day Out. The day was going well until lunch. Where everyone else had a choice of five dishes, veggie only had one option and to be honest it was lazy and bland - a small bowl of cold noodles (I don't even know if they were eggless so tasted a bit and left the rest) with a pitiful number of toasted cashews and some cold pieces of squash. No sauce, no seasoning whatsoever!
Dinner, an indoor BBQ type meal because of the rain wasn't really any better. A few veggie kebabs with an unidentifiable beige thing - which I think was tofu - not sure, and some veggie sausages.
Needless to say, I was glad to eat a proper meal when I returned home.
It's not the first time either. When I was having my graduate welcome event last year, I had to go complain to the waiters because there was no food on the menu that didn't contain eggs. Luckily, they agreed to rustle up something else for me - but it did mean waiting an extra 20mins for my meal.
Restaurants are starting to get better with the options they provide but corporate events still seem to be lacking behind.
I'm going on holiday soon - a few nights in Barcelona and then onto a med cruise. I'm hoping that we won't have similar problems there. For Barca i'm doing a bit of research today for veggie restaurants in the area since my spanish isn't too hot so I don't fancy my chances of ordering correctly in any random restaurant.
Has anyone else had similar expereinces/eaten out in Barca?
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