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Vegan options in Ski Resorts - Please share

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I think it might be a useful reference, to have a thread where People can post how Vegans are catered for, in different resorts that they've been in.

It can be the experience of Vegans sharing their knowledge; or anyone that has spotted something interesting.

All this has come about, because I'm heading to the French Alps with my Daughter, who has gone from Vegetarian (which was hard enough), to Vegan - and there is still precious little available in France........I'm sure other Countries are better.
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...I suspect she may starve in Austria! Very Happy
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It's ok ham counts as veg in Austria.
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On a slightly more useful note...

From experience, Hotel Salzburg in Hinterglemm provided a very good vegan menu for my daughter when we were there a couple of years back. Note that this was a properly thought through menu, not lazy "minus the cheese" adaptations.

https://www.hotel-salzburg.at/

I'm sure there will be other hotels that also cater for vegans, but if all else fails, most Italian restaurants will be able to adapt something to make it vegan. We never had any trouble finding vegan food in Italy last year using this approach.
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Never had much of an issue in Austria... the Happy Cow app is your friend.

The biggest challenge is the "hidden meat" so things like stock, the knob of butter the chef lobs into the sauce to make it rich.

If options are scarce then an Italian restaurant is your safest bet... Although a week of pasta and tomato sauce gets a little trying!
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Doofenschmirtz wrote:
... Although a week of pasta and tomato sauce gets a little trying!


Hang on! Pasta dough has egg in it. Trying to make pasta dough without egg is an affront to Italian cuisine and culture - sacrilege!
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The only vegan stuff I have seen in Tignes is in restaurants run by Brits, might be a decent starting point.
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ulmerhutte wrote:
Doofenschmirtz wrote:
... Although a week of pasta and tomato sauce gets a little trying!


Hang on! Pasta dough has egg in it. Trying to make pasta dough without egg is an affront to Italian cuisine and culture - sacrilege!

Fair point, fresh pasta has egg... dried pasta is flour and water. Unless they say egg pasta on the menu it's a fairly safe bet they've used dried.

Worth checking though.
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We stayed in the Hotel Tyrolerhof in Oberau as a group of three: one omnivore, one vegertarian, one vegan... they couldn't have been more helpful! Different meal for each every night, fully plant based spreads and milk etc etc. On the mountain was a different matter... our vegan pretty much lived on chips for lunch
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My wife is longer term vegan and struggles when we are in PDS. She now eats cheese when in France as almost impossible to find a meal without it. Grocery choices are also very limited unless shopping at very large supermarkets.
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Does she like eating large bowls of lettuce? That was the standard veggy option on the Pre Season Bash (which started to wear on the veggys after 3 days...).
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Hotel Flachauerhof in Flachau. Bio hotel
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ulmerhutte wrote:
...I suspect she may starve in Austria! Very Happy


Pretty easy in this part of Austria. Even most kebab shops have a vegan (seitan) option, which often tastes better than the original!

I guess ski resorts will still be harder, but there's always pommes if you get really stuck. And normally a curry place somewhere that'll do dal bhat and other vegan lentil stuff etc.

Few places in Innsbruck for any vegans going this way:

1. https://www.facebook.com/Olive-873133502698894/
2. https://www.ludwig-burger.at/
3. https://himal.at/
4. https://www.d-werk.at/
5. http://kitchen-hub.at/
6. https://www.myindigo.com/
7. https://www.mannainnsbruck.at/
8. http://www.oscarkocht.com/
9. https://alias.business.site/
10. https://www.woosabi.at/

All the supermarkets have good and growing vegan sections too.


Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Tue 17-12-19 10:14; edited 1 time in total
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Plenty of restaurants in this area which have vegan options. It's a little more difficult on the mountain. If self catering and shopping, Merkur has all sorts of vegan cheeses and whatnot.
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Easiest vegan option in France is self catering.
The restaurants tend to cater for the many, not the few (3%).
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BKM in Arc 1800 say they can produce Vegan meals on request although they don't list vegan dishes on the menu.
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@Old Fartbag,
Find British run restaurants & ask what vegan food they can do, even if not on the menu. Most should be able to knock something up as they'll know what you mean by vegan.
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Thanks for all the feedback, Peeps. Keep it up.

This might also be a useful thread, where Vegans can ask for info about specific areas they are heading to - that can then be useful to others.
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As I mentioned on the Les Arcs thread, I know that Le Kozy and the Cherry Garden in Bourg St Maurice both do very good vegan options
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Many of the hotels and restaurants in Austria understand the requirements of vegans, and will have marked dishes on their menus which are suitable. As an example of the top-end, the Alpen Karawanserai in Hinterglemm has a specific webpage for vegans ( https://www.alpen-karawanserai.at/en/karawane-cuisine/vegan-cuisine-more/ ) while even smaller places like Hoagascht in Flachau have at least one vegan option ( http://www.hoagascht.at/assets/files/hoagascht-speisekarte-dez19-web.pdf )

As @homphomp has said though food on the mountain in Austria is much less likely to be vegan friendly, as they're set up to feed hundreds of people with a quick turnover, and "difficult" people are not worth the effort. Vegetarian options are sometimes limited as well.
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Corbyn lost.....
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Wonder how many chefs have dedicated vegan knife sets for prepping.
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A new vegan café here in 2 Alpes, Yonder.
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Lokal in Davos

https://www.lokaldavos.com/
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We have a lot of emails and calls from vegans who are tired of eating chips, chips and more chips. At Huski we have a range of vegan dishes and wines. It is not the most exhaustive menu in the history of the world, but it is certainly a starting point if you want to eat well out here on the French side of the Alps.

https://hu.ski/requirements/vegan/
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vegans should be catered with insults Very Happy
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Just got back from Hotel Posta Zirm in Corvara - they have vegan (and also gluten-free) options at breakfast with a variety of dairy-free milks, vegan yogurt, vegan cheese and vegan salami-style slices, as well as lots of fresh fruit and loads of bread options.

We saw the dinner menu at breakfast each day and there were 3 menus each evening, 1 of which was always a vegan 5-course meal! Too much for us as the children can’t each that much at night after the buffet breakfast and then a mountain lunch but it did look very good.
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Apologies, not very helpful but any mention of vegetarian or veganism always reminds skiing in Cervinia many years ago. It was one of those really bottom end of the market trips. There were two large groups in the hotel. My family and another group who might have been a family of adults. They did not seem to be aware that you get what you pay for and were constantly carping and complaining. One of the group was a vegetarian and let everybody know. It was in the days when clearly a lot of the continent did not seem to understand vegetarianism. I'm afraid what we found funny were the meals he got served. A pyramid of peas, and nothing but peas, about 10cm high! I wondered if his meals were genuinely a lack of vegetarian knowledge on the part of the kitchen or merely a reaction to his carping.

On another trip in Austria, our son had declared himself vegetarian and he was served omelettes pretty much the whole week, sometimes with mushrooms. A few years later he lost his vegetarianism. Bacon sandwiches broke him!
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Myself and my GF are plant based and have found that the only way to do this is to do self catering.

Get a decent apartment on airb&b or booking.com and use the local supermarket.

You also save a *vast* amount of money.

The Germanic countries just don't do "vegan" well, in the tourist places, unless you get very lucky. The Italians are better but you get pasta pasta and more pasta which is also not very good for you (unless you are one of the "Brighton-type ideological vegans" who eat trade packs of doughnuts Smile ).
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Forage weeds from the roadside.
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one of the "Brighton-type ideological vegans" who eat trade packs of doughnuts


If it's with good coffee, count me in Razz
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I've been Veggie for about 25 years, had no problem at all when staying in catered chalets.
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Forage weeds from the roadside.


Have you tried Digitalis Purpurea? Delicious. wink
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We took 2 vegan friends to our apartment in Thollon Les Memises and they lived on cheese free veggie pizza which they were really happy with. Our favourite restaurant in the village is very accommodating and will do vegan if you let them know in advance but other than that it's not good for vegans, or veggies for that matter. Luckily we're only 6 miles from Evian where there are vegan menus a plenty.
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homphomp wrote:
.. our vegan pretty much lived on chips for lunch


Probably fried in the same oil as the schnitzel. Razz
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Gaza wrote:
homphomp wrote:
.. our vegan pretty much lived on chips for lunch


Probably fried in the same oil as the schnitzel. Razz

Matter of interest, is there a problem with this? It's not an allergy thing.
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Vegan cheese must be the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten.
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