a couple of times a year Kate (a.k.a. Female Offspring) and I take ourselves off for a few days to rest, shop and enjoy all things Vegan. We usually end up in London but for some time we have wanted to take a Vegan "pilgrimage" to Brighton, commonly excepted as the "Mecca" of Vegetarian food in the UK (our version of Portland, Orgeon I guess).
We set off from home, later than we had hoped with a box of cupcakes, a pot of homous, pack of Oatcakes and a large bag of crisps. We would have had a couple of the rolls from the day before but my DH had decided to freeze them to last him and youngest daughter, Bean, through the week of culinary abandonment - we let it go!
Journey was straight through with no stops, 180 miles of Motorway plus another 20, Kate slept for much of the journey and I sang along to an early Beatles CD - it don't get much better than this.
On arrival we realised how tired we were and that we didn't really know Brighton but, thanks to Twitter and @efcliz with a couple of pointers it meant that after a sleep we headed off for Kambis which was, more or less, around the corner.
Kambis is not a fancy restaurant, it doesn't have a licence to serve alcohol but it also doesn't charge you to take your own and there was a family run feel about the place. It is Lebanese and although the menu was for all dietary choices there was a lot of choice for vegans, which proves my theory that a Vegan will never starve in a Middle Eastern restaurant.
Starter we had a Vegan Meze for 1 (advice from the waitress suggested that we had ordered too much with 2 and she was right). It was listed as Hommos, moutabal, tabbouleh, vine leaves, batatta hara, fatayer, falafel & salad, they substituted the Vine Leaves which was good as it's the one thing I didn't want. No picture - too hungry - but it was good.
For main course Kate had Badmojan, Aubergine in a tomato sauce with onions and spices and I went for Ghormeh Sabsi Vegetarian, Kidney Beans with parsley, leek, fenugreek, onion, rhubarb (what the heck?), herbs and dried lime. Both came with an enormous portion of perfectly cooked fluffy rice but we had a portion of fries between us too.
- Kate waiting to "tuck in"
The flavour of all the food was excellent and it was a good first night dinner when you just want feeding and nothing fancy - good choice.
It also taught us that when you go to a place you are not familiar with get the advice from someone who is; thanks Liz
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