Eating vegan at Las Iguanas is awesome!
"Vegans won't get a 'good' vegan meal in a mainstream restaurant! They'd have to go to a 'special' one."
Sometimes I forget about the assumptions that people make about how accessible vegan options are, and I end up being thrown when they're voiced.
It's generally accepted that vegetarian options are easily available, but there seems to be a lack of awareness, or resistance, about how easy it is for vegans to eat out.
Which mainstream restaurants offer vegan options?
Here's a few restaurants that be found in a number of places, which have vegan options.
Pizza Express
Carluccio's
Chiquito
Zizzi
Mildred's
1847
Wagamama
Ask Italian
Ping Pong
Is Las Iguanas any good for vegans?
Oh yes! The vegan menu has a variety of tasty options on it, and it tastes great! We went to a branch in Bristol and found out that the older restaurants don't operate in the same way as the later ones. They have the classic menu but they don't have the separate veggie or vegan menu that you can see below.
I found it strange because chains usually have the same menus no matter where you go, but it didn't actually matter, because they had lots of veggie options which could be veganised anyway.
This is what we ate during one of our visits.
If not being able to eat out, was preventing you from going or staying vegan, does this article show you that it's not something that should stand in your way?
“We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them — exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.”