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| - I'm vegetarian and my husband is vegan with a wheat and soy allergy, so after reading a glowing review of Red Velvet Cafe in a magazine, we went for lunch, on our last day in Vegas, with high expectations for true vegetarian food... and we were sorely disappointed. There did not seem to be any, and I mean ANY, true vegetarian dishes on the menu. I was searching for SOMETHING to order, when I noticed the footnote stating that all items can be "made vegetarian" - i.e., they can have seitan or tofu substituted for the meat. That might work for a newbie vegetarian, but someone who enjoys a meaty portobello mushroom or tasty eggplant or roasted butternut squash in some sort of main dish with perhaps some polenta or rice...? Nothin'. Just tofu and lettuce. The only thing my husband found that he trusted enough to order was the black bean soup with a salad. The vegetarian "spicy chicken wrap" that I ordered was fine, but not the sort of vegetarian fare that will draw me back again. It tasted more like a McDonalds version of vegetarian than a true vegetable-oriented vegetarian meal.
On the other hand, the Carnival World Buffet at Rio's was superb, with too many wonderful vegetarian options to even name!! And the best vegan food was to be had at the Whole Foods at the end of the strip past Mandalay Bay... excellent food bar there!
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