Best Epcot Restaurant for a Vegan?

N.eve

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This will be my first trip to Disney as a vegan so I need a little help. I plan on doing a Candlelight Processional Dining Package, but I'm not sure what restaurant to try and get it at. Can anyone recommend one that might be slightly more vegan friendly? I was thinking the Garden Grill, but I'm honestly not sure. Thank You!
 
I'll specifically recommend against Garden Grill. We're vegetarian, not vegan, but even we couldn't have a great meal there. I'll also advise against the other tier 1 restaurant, Biergarten (despite it serving some incredibly excellent red cabbage). While both of these restaurants could make a unique effort to satisfy vegetarians, they haven't done so for us in the past, and I wouldn't count on them doing so this time. They're really all about the batch dining approach - cook a lot of a few items, and present them family style or buffet.

Tier 2 offers San Angel Inn. I've said a lot of negative things about San Angel Inn over the last twenty years, but it has been very steadily improving, so much so that I stopped talking about it about five years ago, and it has now made it onto my "recommended" list. They generally only have a couple of vegetarian options, but they're sufficiently representative, and good eats. However, I'm a big cheese fan, so I'm not sure my recent positive experience at San Angel Inn will translate as well to a vegan dining experience. I like spicy food mellowed by cheese - remove the cheese and you still have a nutritious, filling meal - but you no longer have that mellowing that I find makes the meal super.

I've been disappointed with Marrakesh over the years, but mostly because they water the food down so much that it isn't anything any self-respecting Morrocan would recognize as their own cuisine. Also, since I haven't eaten there within the past five years, I can't speak to how well it will serve a vegan's requirements.

I've been to Nine Dragons once, over twenty years ago, I believe, and it was so bad, and reviews of the place have been so consistently mediocre or worse, since then, that I never went back.

Rose and Crown may be able to offer a vegetarian shepherds pie that would meet a vegan's requirements, but I'm not sure you can count on that one item being available, without making arrangements in advance (which you can surely do, and if you do, I think you'll be in great shape).

Would you consider a tier 3 restaurant?
 

Thank You for all the helpful links and comments! I've posted a question over at the vegan/vegetarian link as well. Also, no, I would have no problem considering a tier 3. I'm just trying to find the best possible choice, so feel free to recommend a tier 3! And thanks for recommend against the Garden Grill, I really didn't know about the 'family style' servings.
 
I haven't been there personally, but recently read a really poor review of vegan dining at Marrakesh. It seemed they were not accomodating at all.

I really enjoyed the vegetarian lasagna at Chefs de France (Tier 3). It was very good and had lots of veggies in it. I'm vegetarian, and can't quite remember if it had cheese in it, but if you call ahead perhaps they can prepare it without?
 


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