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Terrapin Restaurant
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Serves meat, vegan options available. Local restaurant incorporating the formal Dining Room and the less formal Red Bistro & Bar. Labels vegan (Vg) and veganizable (MVG). Dining Room is open in the evening with reservations recommended, serving tapas, appetizers, quesadillas, and pasta. Red Bistro serves food all day and does not take bookings. Bistro menu includes a green wrap, pasta, and veganizable crepes. Open Mon-Sun 11:30am-10:00pm.
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Last update on 27 Jun 2021 by foodfirst
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6 Reviews
First Review by ELo
dfd
Points +71
Few options - Edit
While clearly labeled, there were actually few options.
Read moreService was very slow. They seemed understaffed for a busy Saturday afternoon.
Pros: Outdoor seating, Vegan and veg options, Location
Cons: Service slow
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CassidyThomas
Points +76
Overpriced, small portions, mediocre food - Edit
The menu is very well labeled. It noted vegan options, vegetarian options, meals that can be made vegan with slight alternation, and meals than can be made wheat free with slight alteration. I had the Pumpkin Risotto with Sage and Maple Glazed Brussels Sprouts. It was good, but seriously expensive. A single entre will run over 30 dollars while a multi course meal will be 40-50. Not the end of the world if it’s good food and portion size, but it was a small portion and honestly a bit bland. I personally wouldn’t go back.
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makcurtis
Points +1110
Not very vegan friendly - Edit
We made a reservation for the dining room on Thursday night, and it was very busy! The dining room is large and open with high ceilings. It’s absolutely beautiful, but causes it to feel more like a loud cafeteria than a fine dining restaurant.
Read moreWe were blown away by the cocktails: a spiced fig sidecar, pomegranate martini, and black currant lemonade. Absolutely delicious!
The menu had a promising amount of vegan-friendly dishes, a scant few that were vegan as-is (vg) and a few that could be altered to be vegan (mvg). We ordered the fried artichokes with horseradish aioli (mvg) from the tapas menu, and I asked if the vegan version came with a vegan dipping sauce. The server somewhat condescendingly said, “well, no, because aioli is mayonnaise.” As if vegan mayonnaise is completely unheard of. So they were served plain without sauce.
The salad we ordered (vg) was delicious and featured pomelo, cherries, asparagus, and pine nuts.
For our entrees, we ordered the buckwheat crepes (mvg) and taste of summer pasta (mvg). The crepes were served with a vegan sauce and local seasonal vegetables and were delicious, but the pasta was made vegan by omitting the sauce and was extremely bland—just plain pasta and sautéed veggies. At $30 per entree, I expect more effort, especially from a restaurant with a happy cow sticker in their window! I don’t think it’s right for vegans to pay the same price for a subpar experience, and a restaurant of this caliber should have the ability to accommodate vegans.
If we go back, we’d probably just visit the bistro for drinks.
Pros: Excellent cocktails , Friendly service , Local produce
Cons: Expensive , Lazy vegan options , Poor price/quality balance
theNumberOfTheBeast
Well, probably just boycott murder kitchens altogether as a vegan... but it is fun to hear people say idiotic things like aioli is mayonnaise, because it is not. It comes from Catalonia meaning all ioli "with oil" and consists of garlic and olive oil and is totally vegan. It was the french who later put chicken periods in it and called it mahon-aise after the town where the gross bestial pervert chef who did that was from.
Read moreGuest
foodfirst
Points +776
Elegant restaurant with a few fine vegan and can-be-made-vegan - Edit
This was always a place with fusion-type cuisine and somewhat nice sit-down service. The restaurant boasts use of local ingredients. The restaurant uses some interesting adaptations of international cuisines, such as Thai, which leads to some spiciness in many of the items on the menu. During the COVID-19 crisis, I ordered a Green Wrap and found it great. It is a light, chilled, vegan (I think) item with a collard green leaf standard as the wrap. Among the ingredients were corn, tomatoes, and avocado. Healthy! Since becoming a vegan, I have always wished for more vegan and can-be-made-vegan items at this old standby of mine. There is a somewhat complicated system of labeling on the menu for vegan, may-be-made-vegan, vegetarian dishes, etc. Another nice but--in this case--somewhat boring vegan item is the mesclun side salad. The menu often includes some pasta dishes be made vegan. Vegetarian items are more abundant than vegan.
Read moreA more-recent found most of the usual hallmarks of fine dining. But a salad tasted scraped of cheese. The main course, a pasta, was flawless.Yet I'm scaling back my adulation by a star.
Updated from previous review on 2020-04-15
Pros: varied and interesting flavors and cooking, nice, full-service type place
Cons: Not very many vegan and may-be-made-vegan items, slightly pricey compared to less-fancy places
Guest
pagescats
Points +81
Ok and difficult menu - Edit
Food was good. Expected a little more for the price. Service was very good. Would have liked more vegan options. The menu was hard to understand with all the letters that meant different things. They should probably return to 2 separate menus.
Read morePros: Lots of outdoor seating available
Cons: Price, Difficult menu
Guest
ELo
Points +40
Not vegan friendly! - Edit
Confusing, 2 different seating areas with different menus. Only vegan options were a salad and shishito peppers. They mention a vegan wrap, but hostess was not helpful in describing it. I don’t understand why they have a Happy Cow sticker on their window.
Read morePros: Beautiful building on the outside
Cons: Does not cater to vegans, Hostess is not friendly, False advertising
foodfirst
The main dining area menu does have more vegan possibilities, especially when you include mvg items ("may be made vegan"). "Red" is the name of the less formal, bar-type area, and sometimes a server there will be heads-up and offer to make an item from the dining room menu if you ask about it. When the place reopened for dining-out only, they had one menu only to my knowledge. So, with the return of dining-in at the Terrapin, we are apparently back to two places in one. Should there be two listings? It may be best for dedicated vegans to only go with reservations to the dining room to avoid being seated in Red at busy times. Also, two listings would accommodate two different sets of open hours and prices! The vegan wrap mentioned by your hostess is probably the green wrap, which is a good dish, as I mention in my review. I would be against taking away veg-options status altogether. I may try submitting a name change for this listing to Terrapin Dining Room, or something like that. I will double check the current dining room menu first before going ahead with this idea. Thanks.
Read morefoodfirst
I have now looked at the Terrapin menu. I looked and found it may not be easy or appropriate to have separate entries here for Red and the Dining Room. However, I was relieved, for what it is worth, to find a unified menu with a lot of vegan and can-be-made vegan options. It is still unfortunate you had an experience that as vegan was not good. I find it can be frustrating finding things on a large menu. Here is my unofficial list of vg (vegan) and mvg (can be made vegan on request) items from the current (Oct 16, 2020) menu. (11 items in all, including one available only after 5 p.m.)
Read moreTapas menu
vg Blistered Shishito Peppers
mvg Crispy Artichokes with Wasabi Aioli
Appetizers
mvg Bowl of Fresh-Cut French Fries With wasabi aioli
mvg Terrapin's Original Nachos
Soups
mvg Golden Nugget Squash Soup
Salads
vg Mesclun Salad
mvg Tuscan Kale Salad
mvg Falafel Salad
Light Plates
mvg Vegetarian Green Wrap
vg Grilled Marinated Beets with Roasted Oyster
Mushrooms and Cauliflower
Dining Room Entrees (only after 5 pm)
vg Grilled Marinated Beets with Roasted Oyster
Mushrooms and Cauliflower
https://www.terrapinrestaurant.com/menu/red-bistro/
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