The Mews Cafe, opposite st Mary's Church, Stafford (also Gluten free and vegetarian options)

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andy w

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Tek you're right about having to cater for all customers to make for a viable business.
I was in the Rose & Crown a pub that prides itself on keeping an excellent choice of beers and you still hear people ask if they sell Lager. Each to their own and all that but I wonder if these people have ever tried the beers in there and not realising what they are missing.
And the same could be said about Veggi/Vegan food. I normally have a vegetable side dish at Navarna which is just as tasty as the meat dishes and I imagine I could choose to have one as a main dish if that is what I wanted.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I know what you mean, but I know I don't like ales. I've tried a fair few but I'd rather drink Strongbow! And that's the problem, everyone likes different things and you have to cater to them all or lose their revenue. You need a large town to have enough regular customers to keep you afloat, Stafford isn't it in my eyes. We can't even keep a Mexican open!

As for Nirvana, have you tried the garlic sobzi? Absolutely lovely, I often have it on the side of a tandoori style dish.
 
henryscat

henryscat

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tek-monkey said:
I know what you mean, but I know I don't like ales. I've tried a fair few but I'd rather drink Strongbow! And that's the problem, everyone likes different things and you have to cater to them all or lose their revenue. You need a large town to have enough regular customers to keep you afloat, Stafford isn't it in my eyes. We can't even keep a Mexican open!
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Sigh. There are smaller towns than Stafford with successful veggie places. You can't compare veggie to Mexican or cider, the analogies are total rubbish. Vegetarian/vegan can cover cuisine of any country, it is not a limited offer; the limitation is the false perceptions you and others appear to hold. I think what I said earlier is being borne out....
 
henryscat

henryscat

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John Marwood said:
Do the same people who drink Carling wear white socks and listen to Bon Jovi ?
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Not necessarily, more likely to watch too much Sky Sports in the pub and engage in mindless violence over a game of 22 blokes kicking a bag of wind around a field.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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henryscat said:
Sigh. There are smaller towns than Stafford with successful veggie places. You can't compare veggie to Mexican or cider, the analogies are total rubbish. Vegetarian/vegan can cover cuisine of any country, it is not a limited offer; the limitation is the false perceptions you and others appear to hold. I think what I said earlier is being borne out....
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Seems very odd nobody has opened one then?

Last night I ate a lovely lamb rogan josh that I cooked myself. The lamb was very moist, the outside cooked perfectly and the inside had that slight resistance of rare meat where your teeth kind of tear through it (as opposed to slow cooked where the whole chunck is tender) with that distinct lamby taste throughout. That was as much part of the experience as the tomato/onion/coriander and I am yet to find a vegetable that can recreate it.

You seem determined to tell me that vegan food can be of any variety, but it is missing a major one that many people enjoy. You say my analogies are flawed but they are based on taste, the one major influence on where people will go to eat. That you pretend not to comprehend this makes you appear very shortsighted, I think you know a vegan restaurant would fail in stafford but your beliefs make you pretend otherwise. You could always open one and find out?
 
Wormella

Wormella

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Oh no - that is a shame, it was lovely in there - we held our most recent cake club event there - but it was never busy
 
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