I want to
introduce to you some of my favourite eateries around my area. I
already once revealed to you that I live in Southampton, in southern
England, and all of these pubs and restaurants are quite close to my
home, which means that I'm a regular visitor. I will continue this
series at some point, but here are three places first of all. They
aren't vegetarian places, but all are very veggie friendly.
Few years back I
went to The Rockstone pub at least once a week to share a huge
portion of vegetarian nachos with char-grilled vegetables with my
partner. The so called Tuesday “nacho night” was a must for us in
order to have a good week. It was always interesting to see the
seasonally changing vegetables on the portion. Once we tried to have
a portion each instead of sharing, but failed quite miserable, the
portions are just so huge. We also had a running gag back in the day
that I could possibly only take a starter and would even then be too
full. That rule still applies to this place.
Lately I've been
eating there less, but it's always a good place to go, if you want to
get full of good veggie food and dine in a relaxed pub atmosphere
with frequent live music performances. They mainly make burgers, but
are very veggie and vegan friendly. This is the place, where I ate
deep-fried smoked cheese for the first time. It was such a wicked
starter, but unfortunately not on the menu anymore.
Last time when I
went there, I had the Highway to Halloumi salad as a main and rye
bread with red lentil hummus as a starter. The halloumi was properly
fried and they didn't hold back with the amount of halloumi. The red
lentil hummus inspired me to make my own recently. My partner had the
Mexican burger, which is very tasty, spicy and huge, served with
fries and a side salad.
Neighbourhood is
quite a new restaurant with beautiful modern interior decoration
serving a variety of dishes many of which are vegetarian. This is a
great place to have something more unusual for lunch.
I really like
their robata grilled aubergine, pepper, portobello mushroom, sweet
potato with flatbread and hummus dish, and also the grilled market
garden salad, which is depicted here. It contains barbeque marinated
sweetcorn, courgette, peppers, fennel, red onion and halloumi cheese
with a basil puree. I definitely have to go more often to this place.
Ebb & Flow is
a quaint café with mismatched crockery and cute details in the
interior design. This is the type of place where I like to have a
break on a shopping trip, just to have a coffee or a quick snack.
They serve an all
day breakfast with a really good vegetarian fry up with quorn
sausages and all the typical fixtures of an English breakfast. They
also have a few vegetarian options for sandwiches and flatbreads.
Pictured here are a grilled cheese and cherry tomato sandwich and a
roasted spring onion and smoked harissa hummus sandwich. I also
always take their pineapple juice with the meals.
I've only once
eaten here in the evening and then chose the tapas option. They had
several different veggie tapas and it was quite a nice meal. I would
really like to taste one of their mains one day.
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