{"id":205,"date":"2009-07-12T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:07:52","slug":"fantastic-vegvegan-restaurant-in-edinburgh-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/fantastic-vegvegan-restaurant-in-edinburgh-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bann: Fantastic Veg\/Vegan Restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; was a bit worried about being able to eat Vegan &#8211; or even Vegetarian &#8211; while in the UK on holiday last week.<\/p>\n<p>No worries.  At all.  Even outside of London.<\/p>\n<p>Even a traditional PUB in Windsor&#8230; had FOUR VEG OPTIONS on the menu!  Had vegetarian BANGERS AND MASH?!?   Even had VEGAN Haggis&#8230;!  But more on that later. <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; here&#8217;s the deal. If you&#8217;re in Edinburgh, near Edinburgh, or planning to go&#8230; and you want a FANTASTIC Veg\/Vegan restaurant&#8230; go to David Bann&#8217;s on St. Mary&#8217;s Street.  It&#8217;s just off of the Royal Mile, toward the Holyrood Palace end.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbann.com\/\">David Bann Restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had&#8230; Aubergine Croquettes with Mashed Potatoes&#8230; and another of us (not vegan or veg) had Spinach and beet root and Stilton cheese souffle&#8217;&#8230; on top of couscous.  Our 13 year old vegetarian had the broccoli tart.  ALL were amazing.  Like &#8211; WOW amazing.  <\/p>\n<p>For dessert, as I&#8217;m newly vegan after a couple of years of vegetarian and over a thirteen years of no pork or beef&#8230; I had apple fritters and vegan chocolate &#8220;ice cream.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The wine, the service, the ambiance&#8230; were as fine as any restaurant anywhere.  It was truly a first-class, meat-free experience.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention they were PACKED!!  On a TUESDAY!!??  So&#8230; make reservations!<\/p>\n<p>Check it out&#8230; and ask for Richard (our waiter&#8230; amazing, fun, smart guy&#8230; educated as a primatologist but now waiter extraordinaire.  <\/p>\n<p>Seriously&#8230; of all the things we did in Edinburgh&#8230; when we go back, this is on the short list of MUST REPEAT. <\/p>\n<p>David Bann&#8230; superb.  Please open stores in the States!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; was a bit worried about being able to eat Vegan &#8211; or even Vegetarian &#8211; while in the UK on holiday last week. No worries. At all. Even outside of London. Even a traditional PUB in Windsor&#8230; had FOUR VEG OPTIONS on the menu! Had vegetarian BANGERS AND MASH?!? Even had VEGAN Haggis&#8230;! But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-and-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}