{"id":14220,"date":"2024-10-07T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T09:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14220"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T09:23:36","slug":"can-a-vegetarian-dine-well-in-nyc-we-put-some-top-restaurants-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14220","title":{"rendered":"Can a Vegetarian Dine Well in NYC? We Put Some Top Restaurants to the Test."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even the city\u2019s best restaurants deal with meat-averse customers in a variety of ways, from discouraging them to welcoming them.<\/p>\n

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More times than I can count, I\u2019ve heard the same refrain from my vegetarian relatives visiting New York: This is not a friendly city for the meat-averse. Restaurants don\u2019t offer enough meatless options, they say, especially dishes that are as filling and interesting as the nonvegetarian ones.<\/p>\n

How could that be? We live in an era when \u201cplant-based<\/a>\u201d and \u201cvegetable forward<\/a>\u201d are cultural buzzwords, and New York has one of the most diverse and robust restaurant scenes<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n

Yet when I asked readers to share their experiences of dining while vegetarian, I heard from scores of New Yorkers who agree with my relatives.<\/p>\n

Several told me that because many restaurants shrank their menus to cut costs during the pandemic, it\u2019s harder than ever to go meatless. \u201cWe used to have two options\u201d on any given menu, said Charlotte Brooks, a Baruch College professor who lives in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. \u201cYou may now not have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tracie Lyons, a lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side, said that since she became a vegetarian in 2020, \u201cdining out has ceased to be a joy and is now more of a chore.\u201d She has to research each restaurant beforehand to make sure there will be options for her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At Torrisi, an upscale Italian restaurant, even the most familiar vegetarian pastas, like cheese tortellini, taste exciting.<\/span>Evan Sung for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Even the city\u2019s best restaurants deal with meat-averse customers in a variety of ways, from discouraging them to welcoming them.More times than I can count, I\u2019ve heard the same refrain from my vegetarian relatives visiting New York: This is not a friendly city for the meat-averse. Restaurants don\u2019t offer enough meatless options, they say, especially dishes that are as filling and interesting as the nonvegetarian ones.How could that be? We live in an era when \u201cplant-based\u201d and \u201cvegetable forward\u201d are cultural buzzwords, and New York has one of the most diverse and robust restaurant scenes in America.Yet when I asked readers to share their experiences of dining while vegetarian, I heard from scores of New Yorkers who agree with my relatives.Several told me that because many restaurants shrank their menus to cut costs during the pandemic, it\u2019s harder than ever to go meatless. \u201cWe used to have two options\u201d on any given menu, said Charlotte Brooks, a Baruch College professor who lives in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. \u201cYou may now not have one.\u201dTracie Lyons, a lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side, said that since she became a vegetarian in 2020, \u201cdining out has ceased to be a joy and is now more of a chore.\u201d She has to research each restaurant beforehand to make sure there will be options for her.At Torrisi, an upscale Italian restaurant, even the most familiar vegetarian pastas, like cheese tortellini, taste exciting.Evan Sung for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14222,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14223,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions\/14223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}