Veggie food is still hit or miss in the Aberdeenshire area. Most small hotels and pub food caters primarily for decaying dead stuff consumers. (Put the emphasis on the words in that sentence any way you wish).
Plentiful venison, game, rare breed pigs and assorted brown shapes drenched in gravy but no respect paid to vegetables. Predictably poor choice of veggie burger, macaroni cheese, and in a completely non-ironic throwback to the 70’s, cheese and peach salad. That last offered in an establishment boasting a vast range of fish, game and other abattoir products.
Mercifully, the fates have located some terrific Indian restaurants in the area. Of all the odd places, Peterhead has one of the best Indian restaurants I’ve ever been in. Their vegetarian Thalli seemed to be served in a steel container nearly a meter wide – an exaggeration, it just felt like the most intimidating amount of food ever placed in front of me. Over an hour of steady munching interspersed with pauses for air, made hardly a dent in the food mountain. Reluctantly submitting to the inevitable, more was left than eaten. I mourn those leftovers yet.
Huntly has if anything, an even better, if less fancy, Indian restaurant. The food is so full of flavour and just all round yumminess, but again comes in improbably hearty portions. The price is in inverse proportion to the portion size. Overcome with greediness, and in order to taste their veggie Samber and the bindi baji as a side dish, along with rice and a chapatti, there was little hope of getting more than half way through.
This run of scrummy Indian food comes to a full stop in Fraserburgh. For somewhere that claimed to have won an award, I was left pondering exactly what the award was for.
The standard of food and the prices in Indian restaurants in Edinburgh is dire, or at least the one’s I’ve tried recently; with the honourable exception of the two veggie ones. On the other hand, perhaps it is just as well that the local take-aways’ nasty habit of adding sweetcorn to their veggie dishes saves me developing a worse curry addiction. Thankfully, I often go to the "curry mile" in Manchester where there is almost infinite choice of regions and cuisines. It will take many more visits before I have sampled them all!
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2 comments:
EAstern Spices are nice in Canonmills - I often get a take away from there.
Do think going 'ethnic' is best when vegie or vegan.
Aha! I knew there must be somewhere to get a take away. Thanks for that, I'll try them sometime.
I agree that it is often simpler to get veggie food in non-traditional Scottish places, but that is no excuse and I have been known to flounce out of places if faced with a choice of pasta or nothing!
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