Vegetarian - eating out?

I'm in London Telly and DD2 is vegan. We're spoilt for choice here. I especially like the veggie and vegan places where there's a 'pay by weight' buffet - always plenty of choice and very easy to try new things.

City centres in the UK usually provide a good range of interesting vegetarian or vegan dishes. Even the chains like WagaMama, Noodle Bars and so on do a good range.

Both my dils are vegetarian. They complained about the boring mushroom risotto regime at one time but they both think the choice is so much better now.

My Parisian dil said even mushroom risotto was better than French restaurants, which mostly consisted of removing the meat from a normal dish!

I mostly eat vegetarian when I'm out and I often think the offerings are nicer than the meat options.

I think it depends where you eat. I have been in a number of restaurants offering an interesting and varied range of vegetarian dishes. I am not vegetarian but usually eat vegetarian meals when out from choice. I had a delicious Penne alla Norma at Prezzo this lunchtime (pasta, aubergine and a tasty tomato/basil sauce)

My big complaint about vegetarian dishes is the frequency with which they contain goats cheese. I HATE goats cheese and the number of times my eyes have lit up at the start of the title of a vegetarian dish only to count it out completely at the end of the line because there is that fatal ingredient.