Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Prezzo

1 Culver St East
 Colchester 
CO1 1LD
 
 I emailed Prezzo to enquire whether their pizza dough and pizza sauce are vegan.

They replied to say they are not! Both apparently contain egg and milk, which seems quite unusual!

They did however confirm that their Penne Arrabbiatia is vegan if ordered without cheese.

If you would like to email Prezzo to let them know how disappointed you are that they use egg and milk in their dough and sauce then they have a contact  form here: http://www.prezzorestaurants.co.uk/contact

In the meantime why not visit Pizza Express , Strada or Zizzi!

As ever, all information on this site is intended as a guide. Menus and ingredients may change, so always mention that you are vegan at time of ordering.
If you spot any out of date information/broken links on this site, please email me to let me know!

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Zizzi


Zizzi
12 Headgate
CO3 3BTT: 01206 576816


Zizzi have a helpful allergen menu here http://www.zizzi.co.uk/assets/pdf/special_diets.pdf and even better-they have a copy that you can read in the restaurant too!

Below is a list of items that are marked vegan on the PDF, and also those that can be veganised ...

“Before you start”

Mixed olives
Goddess Olives
Dough sticks with garlic aioli- contains milk and egg: to make vegan substitute garlic butter and garlic aioli for olive oil

“Antipasti”

Bruschetta al Pomodoro
Italian bread basket-Dough sticks contain milk- "to make vegan serve without dough sticks" (this is the advice of the allergy pdf.. I'm aware it seems a bit contradictory, as above it says that the dough sticks can be made vegan if using olive oil in place of garlic butter!)

“Pasta”

Zizzi'z use vegan pasta-except the gluten free pasta, which contains egg
Pasta with pomodoro sauce is vegan-ask for it without the buffalo mozzarella

“Risotto”-all contain milk and egg

“Calzone and Pizza"

-Pizza dough and pizza sauce are vegan, so ask for the cheese to be left off.  Possible veggie pizzas to veganise are-

Skinny Rustica-Primavera  :Slices of aubergine, artichoke, peppers, olives, tomato sauce, mozzarella and goats’ cheese.-Contains milk from mozzarella and goats cheese-ask for pizza without these cheeses

Calzone-Clarissa-Aubergine, peppers, olives, pine nuts and our tomato sauce, topped off with mozzarella and goats’ cheese.-Contains milk from mozzarella and goats cheese-ask for pizza without these cheeses

Funghi-Mushrooms, mozzarella and thyme.-contains milk from mozzarella-ask for no cheese.

“Salads and sides”

Tuscan potatoes
Fine Green beans
Mixed salad
Super food insalata-“Chunky slices of butternut squash and ribbons of courgette. Lentils, broad beans and mint. We muddle goats’ cheese through the mix, add salad leaves drizzled with white balsamic vinegar and put dough on the side.”-Contains milk from goats cheese, and from garlic butter on dough sticks. I assume it would be vegan without goats cheese and dough sticks…

“Dessert”
Sorbetti (strawberry, lemon and
blood orange)


Items that looked like they may be ok, but aren’t!
Courgette fries:contain milk and egg


As ever, all information on this site is intended as a guide. Menus and ingredients may change, so always mention that you are vegan at time of ordering.
If you spot any out of date information/broken links on this site, please email me to let me know!




Saturday, 17 March 2012

Pizza Express

1 St. Runwalds Street
Colchester 
CO1 1HF
 01206 760680

 http://www.pizzaexpress.com/


As ever, all information on this site is intended as a guide. Menus and ingredients may change, so always mention that you are vegan at time of ordering.
If you spot any out of date information/broken links on this site, please email me to let me know!

Statement from  Pizza Express:

"All our pizza are made to order and can be made without the items that
render it unsuitable i.e. cheese. Our pizza dough and tomato sauce are all
suitable for vegans.

Newsflash! Pizza Express now have a special cheesless pizza on the menu! It's called Pianta and consitsts of: Spinach, chestnut mushrooms, pine kernels and artichoke on a spicy arrabbiata base, finished with rocket and extra virgin olive oil.

They also sell a vegan raspberry sorbet! So they could cater for a 3 course vegan meal. Result!

Pizza Expess' whole menu can be viewed here:

 http://www.pizzaexpress.com/our-food/our-restaurant-menu/

The Pizza express allergy PDF is here which states that they also now sell a vegan raspberry sorbet.


Note: If you have a mobile phone on the Orange network you can text "film" to 241 and get a code for buy-one-get-one-free at Pizza express on Wednesdays. (as well as BOGOF Odeon cinema tickets!). Pizza Express also accept Taste Card.

*Takeaway tip!*

When ordering pizza online for Takeaway (collection only) I noticed that to add 5 items to a plain margherita  pizza (obviously select the option "no cheese!") took the price up from £7 something to £13 something!
However the "Veneziana"  pizza which has lot's more topping (which I don't like!) is also £7 something.
I found that using the customise pizza option I could remove  toppings and add 5  that I wanted, and the price stayed the same!
-I think I opted to add red peppers, roast veg, red onion, artichoke and spinach.  It made for a very delicious pizza!