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Stay & Eat
Is a page of members' recommendations — places where they have enjoyed staying, and places where they have had good vegetarian/vegan meals.
Please contact us with your favourites. Give us a web site if they have one, if not, address, phone etc. Accommodation should be predominately vegetarian/vegan or at least very supportive of the lifestyle. Restaurants and cafes should have a mainly vegetarian/vegan menu.
To get the ball rolling, Geoff & Julia have listed their choices, though some venues have not been visited for some time. We have checked however, and all are still in business!
Places to stay
CUMBRIA
Keswick
Ravenstone Hotel
A family-run business on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake, just north of Keswick. Vegetarian friendly, just let them know and they’ll put extra options on their menu.
Excellent Christmas & New Year breaks.
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
DERBYSHIRE
Edale (start of the Pennine Way)
Stonecroft B&B
A vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free B&B run by someone who knows – Julia Reid, an award winning chef.
www.stonecroftguesthouse.co.uk
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
NORFOLK
West Runton
Hollyhock House
a fully vegetarian B&B serving fabulous food, with amazing sea views from the bedrooms, in a beautiful and quiet location, a few minutes walk from the beach
Recommended by Sally
NORTH WALES
Bangor
The Garden Hotel
Recommended by Julia Limage. See also 'Places to Eat' below
Talsarnau (near Harlech)
Tremeifion Vegetarian hotel.
A wonderful vegetarian and vegan hotel close to the Italianate village of Portmeirion. We stayed here for our honeymoon, (many) years ago. New owners now (and a good bit more expensive), but no doubt still a great place to relax. Stunning views and great walks from the door.
www.tremeifionvegetarianhotel.co.uk
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
Places to eat
BRISTOL
Cafe Maitreya
One of the top vegetarian restaurants in the UK, with a creative menu. We have been a couple of times on special occasions. Excellent food, though portions are small. A hard to find location.
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
LINCOLNSHIRE
Lincoln
The Cheese Society
A busy licenced café and cheese shop in Lincoln with a creative cheese-based menu (nothing vegan). No children under 10 years.
1 St Martin's Lane, Lincoln, LN2 1HY
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
Kirkby-on-Bain (between Woodhall Spa and Horncastle)
The Ebrington Arms
A 16th Century village inn that has a good range of reasonably-priced vegetarian options always available
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
NORTH WALES
Bangor
The Garden Hotel & Cantonese Restaurant
When my husband and I, and my brother went there for a meal in August 2011 they had a full page selection of vegetarian/vegan meals. They also cater for gluten-free diets.
Recommended by Julia Limage
SUFFOLK
Great Brickett (between Stowmarket and Ipswich)
The Veggie Red Lion
East Anglia's first and only exclusively vegetarian pub. Worth having a holiday in the area just to eat at this pub that has a good selection of vegetarian and vegan starters, mains and desserts, also take-aways! Just look at the menu!
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
WILTSHIRE
Salisbury
Anokaa Indian Restaurant
With starters like pan fried potato cakes with spinach, and mains such as kasuri aloo – (scooped out local baby potatoes filled with red kidney beans and plantain drizzled with a makhani sauce of fenugreek and cream of coconut, served with rice filled baby peppers and parsnip crisps); you know this is Indian food with a difference.
Our restaurant of choice when staying with family in Salisbury. (Booking advised).
Recommended by Geoff & Julia
YORKSHIRE
Otley
The Cheerful Chilli
A good-value vegetarian café & restaurant, encountered while walking on The Chevin, a ridge with fine views that lies to the south of Otley, just north of Leeds-Bradford Airport. A café during the day, it transforms into a restaurant in the evening. Worth seeking out if in the area.
http://thecheerfulchilli.co.uk
Recommended by Geoff & Julia