While I love to cook, I absolutely love going out to eat! Mostly, I enjoy not having to shop and clean-up! I also love the ambience that restaurants and bars provide. And who doesn't love to people watch?!?!
As a vegetarian, I often find myself looking for menus or reviews online before trying a new establishment. For me, I like to know that I have options in a menu, or if the establishment is Veggie Friendly. Sure, I'll go to a steakhouse with my husband and get a salad & maybe a baked potato, no problem-o. It's not my first choice, but I'll make do.
My biggest restaurant pet peeves: 1) smoked cheese. I HATE it! Even if it says vegetarian, if there's smoked cheese in it, I can't eat it. It tastes like meat to me! I wish all restaurants would specify when their cheeses are smoked! I always try to ask, but when you're in the middle of a good conversation, sometimes a girl justs forgets! 2) baked potatoes...in the deep fryer!! If you are calling it a baked potato...BAKE it! I have ordered baked potatoes that taste like bacon before! Then I feel bad asking if the potato was cooked in the fryer...answer being yes! Then call it a fryed potato! Or at least indicated it has been dropped in there, if only for a few seconds. I do not eat anything out of fryers, unless my own deep fryer, and even then I use a separate veggie oil vs meat oil. Call me picky, but I can taste the meat, so I end up throwing it out and still paying for it, so as not to cause a scene.
This blog will be updated when I go out to eat (and when I remember...) in regards to...you guessed it...the vegetarian options that establishments around the cleveland/akron area have to offer! Hopefully, this will help someone like me out!
