4 Saint John's
Street Colchester, Essex CO2 7AA
01206 571 003
The Playhouse is operated by pub chain “Wetherspoon”.
Wetherspoon helpfully have a “plan your menu” section on
their website, where you can choose to just view the vegan items. [take note
other restaurants!!]
The items listed were:
Portion of chips
Sides:
Side salad without
creamy dressing
Children's:
Happy Monkey strawberry & banana smoothie
Curry Club:
Sweet potato, chickpea & spinach curry with extra
poppadums
An award-winning dish, in a coconut sauce, with yellow
basmati rice, mango chutney and poppadums. This meal is suitable for vegans if
ordered without Naan.
Large onion bhajis
Vegetable samosas
Extra poppadums & mango chutney
Bombay potatoes
Confusingly jacket potato and beans (without butter) doesn't show up on this list, but it does show up if you select "vegetarian"+ "egg free" + "dairy free"... as does"Organic Tomato and Basil Soup" and "Hummus and Roast Vegetable Flatbread".
Looking through their menu I noticed a lot of vegetarian things that
could easily be made vegan, if Weatherspoon so chose-such as: Mexican bean burger, vegetable
burger, vegetarian sausage with chips and beans, superfood salad/pasta,
Vegetarian roast(Portobello Mushroom, Chickpea & Pumpkin Seed Roast served
with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, vegetables and gravy), Five-bean chilli
(uses Quorn mince), Vegetarian breakfast (Two fried eggs, three vegetarian
sausages, baked beans and chips).
I think some polite email suggestions are in order!
