Hummus: check, Brazilian: check, next stop Italian

Pacifico's had really good food.  Enjoyed it every time I went.

Cent'anni, on the other had, was a complete disaster both times I went.  It was awful. 

It does feel like much of today's Brooklyn fine dining scene writes off vegetarians, or offers them a pasta dish that's a solid 'meh' at best. That's the same thing that annoyed me about many of the new places in Williamsburg, and also why I never stopped by Pacifico. Dunno how much of the dinner crowd we vegetarians are, but it doesn't seem like Pacifico, at least, afforded writing us off. It is off-putting that the majority of the 'veggies' menu also contains meat.

You only need to watch the Food Network to see that this attitude pervades the culinary world.  My fiancée graduated from the French Culinary Institute and works in the culinary field, and everyone openly mocks vegetarianism, especially the chefs.  The irony is it takes far more skill to prepare a tasty vegetarian/vegan meal than it does one that leans heavily on meat and dairy. 

Businesses continue to ignore this rapidly growing demographic at their own peril, especially in areas like this where increasingly large numbers of households have someone who's a vegetarian.  What they don't seem to grasp is that if six people are going out to eat and even one is a vegetarian, they're not going to eat at your restaurant if you don't have a decent option for that person. 

Plus, I worry about the ability of a place to make something that's truly vegan if they're aren't aware enough/concerned enough to offer a vegetarian/vegan option in the first place.  Nothing worse than going to eat something you were told was vegan, only to discover animal products in your food.  I used to like Zaytoon's......until they gave me a falafel with beef in it....first meat I'd had in my mouth in over 20 years (they're lucky I'm not particularly litigious).  Suffice it to say that I'll never eat there again (Pasha's more vegan friendly anyways), and would encourage anyone who's vegan/vegetarian to do that same.  It doesn't say good things about your kitchen when meat can just happen to end up in random dishes that don't call for any meat.

Businesses continue to ignore this rapidly growing demographic at their own peril, especially in areas like this where increasingly large numbers of households have someone who's a vegetarian.  What they don't seem to grasp is that if six people are going out to eat and even one is a vegetarian, they're not going to eat at your restaurant if you don't have a decent option for that person. 

You'd be surprised how common these kinds of lawsuits are. The place where my fiancee works is being sued for a million dollars for serving food they claimed was kosher, but wasn't. People can eat whatever/wherever they want. Though I know I'd want to know if a place where I ate was accidentally serving meat in ostensibly vegetarian fare. It might seem like a minor thing to some, but having not eaten meat in several decades it's akin to what a meat eater would feel if someone served them human flesh. Absolutely disgusting and a violation of your deepest held beliefs and convictions. So yeah, funny stuff.

Frivolous lawsuits are incredibly common, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of these.  Even if there is a claim, the damages would be pretty small.

And the kosher issue is a bit different, right?  Being vegetarian isn't a religion, no matter how important it is to you. 

I'm curious to know how that "million-dollar lawsuit" turns out, though.  What orifice did they pull that damages amount from?