Now and again I get mails from people annoyed/slighted/surprised that a veggie restaurant doesn’t cater sufficiently for vegans, if at all.

My personal opinion is that veggie restaurants that don’t cater for vegans are missing a trick. Vegans are really easy to cater for: when I ran a café with my sister, we made sure that most of our veggie dishes were suitable for vegans. As a vegetarian, I love vegan food and probably cook a vegan meal for my family two to three times a week. I don’t like cheese or eggs with everything. When I eat out, I worry about the provenance of the cheese and the eggs anyway, so I’ll always choose the vegan option if there is one.

However, vegetarian restaurants are at liberty to run their places as they please. If you are vegan, it makes sense to check with the place beforehand. You might then avoid the veggie lasagne or jacket potato with cheese that the rest of us have to put up with.

If you do find a place with great vegan options, please don’t keep it to yourself – put the place on the site if it’s not there already and post a review. Then we can all benefit.