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Following on from our earlier article on unusual places to eat in London, here are four more great places to eat in London if you fancy something a little out of the ordinary…

• RootMaster restaurant. A vegan ‘on an actual bus’ eating experience – you don’t see many of these. The Rootmaster restaurant in Ely’s Yard, close to Brick Lane, really is a unique experience. An actual Routemaster (first in action in 1967), the restaurant has dining upstairs, and also does take away. A 100% organic and meat-free environment, it’s ethically right-on and healthy too. And you don’t have to ring the bell when you want to get off. [ Book a table at RootMaster ]
• Garlic and Shots. If you like Garlic, you’ll love Garlic and Shots – garlic is in everything from avocado garlic chicken to start, through main courses like garlic meatballs with creamed garlic sauce and garlic honey roasted ribs to desserts such as butter scotch garlic toffee cake. As for the shots, there are 101 different vodka shots (including some with garlic, naturally) to try so you’re probably best to get public transport home – but don’t worry, you’re bound to get a seat!
• Abracadabra Restaurant. The restaurant’s eclectic interior was designed by owner and self-confessed eccentric, Lord David West. Tired of ‘very, very boring’ restaurant interiors, he describes it as an ‘Alice in Wonderland for adults’ – the centre piece of which is a revolving table, designed by the owner to allow all twelve of the occupants enjoy the ‘best seat’ in the restaurant. The menu features the most expensive starter we’ve ever seen; the Black Caviar comes in at a wallet-busting £195, so probably best to ‘go dutch’ if you order this. Don’t worry though, almost all the other starters are the right side of a tenner.
• Inamo Restaurant. This pan-Asian restaurant in Soho offers diners an innovative way to order their dinner. Menus are projected onto the table where touch sensors allow users to navigate them as if using a touch-screen. The menu system doesn’t stop there though – you can change the images projected onto your table during dinner – and if you run out of things to talk about with your dining companion you can have an electronic game of battleships (or if it’s going really badly, use it to order a taxi!). [ Book a table at Inamo ]

If you know of any more unusual London restaurants (or somewhere a bit different to eat outside the capital), leave us a comment and we’ll include it in our next article.

Following on from our last blog post, we continued to speak to vegetarian restaurants from around the UK about National Vegetarian Week.

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This week is the 18th annual National Vegetarian Week, running from Monday 24th to Sunday 30th. We’ve been busy adding some great veggie and vegan restaurants to our restaurant guide. Along the way, we spoke to a few of them asked them introduce their restaurant and tell us a little about how they are celebrating National Vegetarian Week…

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With around 3% of the population fully vegetarian, and a further 2% abstaining from some elements of the carnivorous spectrum (either just eating fish, or avoiding red meat), vegetarians represent a significant proportion of a modern restaurant’s trade. Whereas eating out as a vegetarian 20 years ago generally meant having a meal “without the meat” and exposing yourself to the relentless “Oh dear, I can’t see any tofu on the menu!” jokes, nowadays it is de rigueur for any self respecting restaurateur to have a decent vegetarian section on their menu, and at least a couple of veggie options on the specials board.

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