Hynde's Vegiterranean Isn't Too Shabby « Columbus Underground Messageboard

Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion » Dining

Hynde's Vegiterranean Isn't Too Shabby

[31 posts] [14 contributors]

Topic Rating:

(Total Ratings: )
Rate this topic:

Started 3 years ago by crsimp01
Latest reply from Walker

Tags:

« Previous 12

osulew
My house...in the middle of my street
Login to Send PM

Bear wrote
shroud wrote she has had an anaphylactic reaction/needed an epipen shot, so the odds are lower, and we definitely won't be testing whether she's outgrown it on regular intervals...
:shock:
Sorry to hear it! Learning quite a bit from this thread -- didn't realize that people could be so violently allergic to milk.
re the restaurant: Does Ms. Hynde's stance re carnivores bother anyone else? It's increasingly not sitting well with me. I'm assuming that the success of a vegan or vegetarian restaurant depends on the patronage of at least some people who usually eat meat, just based on the numbers. And that's fine, just as vegetarians support restaurants that serve meat -- whatever. But Ms. Hynde famously loathes carnivores, doesn't want to sleep with them, calls them terrorists... yet doesn't mind taking their money? Have I got all this right?
I just browsed the menu. Some of the offerings sound delish, but if she really feels that my meat eating makes me evil, then I'd never patronize her restaurant. Blah on that! I also am not fond of all the faux meat offerings on the menu. I guess if I am paying restaurant prices for a great vegetarian or vegan experience, I just want to see super fresh, natural type items on my plate. I can nuke a gardenburger on my own at home for a couple bucks!
The risotto on the menu sounds num-nums though!

Posted 3 years ago #
Bear
The woods
Login to Send PM

I realize that I'm running the risk of starting yet another carnivores vs. vegetarians tangent, and that's not my intent at all, so I should clarify. I actually think most vegans and vegetarians are surprisingly tolerant of meat being eaten in their presence, and I'm grateful for their forbearance. I don't really care that Ms. Hynde thinks I'm sub-human because I haven't evolved beyond my primitive urge to eat meat; frankly, she hasn't made it into the circle of people whose opinions of me matter to me. So I'll happily listen to her music, etc., without qualms.
But it seems kind of odd for someone like that to venture into the restaurant business. I mean, it's one thing if, as she claims, she just wants a place where she herself, and other vegetarians and vegans, can go and eat good food. (Although, footnote, she lives in England.) But if that's what she wants, and she really doesn't like to be with meat eaters in restaurants, it seems odd to start a chain of restaurants that almost has to rely on their (our) patronage to succeed.
On the other hand, maybe she's not being hypocritical. You can't really post a sign on a restaurant saying "Carnivores not welcome" -- but maybe she believes that she's been so vocal for so long that meat-eaters will get the message that they're not wanted in her restaurant?
Anyway, the point isn't so much about vegetarians vs. carnivores (please) as it is about principle: taking a strong public position that a large group of people are morally depraved savages, but then not being above taking their money.

Posted 3 years ago #
sarahb
clintonville
Login to Send PM

Bear wrote
shroud wrote she has had an anaphylactic reaction/needed an epipen shot, so the odds are lower, and we definitely won't be testing whether she's outgrown it on regular intervals...
:shock:
Sorry to hear it! Learning quite a bit from this thread -- didn't realize that people could be so violently allergic to milk.
re the restaurant: Does Ms. Hynde's stance re carnivores bother anyone else? It's increasingly not sitting well with me. I'm assuming that the success of a vegan or vegetarian restaurant depends on the patronage of at least some people who usually eat meat, just based on the numbers. And that's fine, just as vegetarians support restaurants that serve meat -- whatever. But Ms. Hynde famously loathes carnivores, doesn't want to sleep with them, calls them terrorists... yet doesn't mind taking their money? Have I got all this right?
She is just very outspoken and passionate about animals which translates to some people as her hating meat eaters. She is probably willing to take your money in hopes that you will eat vegan fare at her restaurant and realize that you don't need meat in your diet, that would be my guess anyway.

Posted 3 years ago #
crsimp01
Columbus, Ohio
Login to Send PM

Hey everyone...just wanted to say thanks for your replies and comments....I have to say this is probably the best thing about being a reporter...hearing what you have to say....even if is isn't always nice or in agreement.
FYI....it was pretty cool meet Chrissie..even though she thinks I'm a terrorist...that's hilarious.
Craig

Posted 3 years ago #
Bear
The woods
Login to Send PM

sarahb wrote She is just very outspoken and passionate about animals which translates to some people as her hating meat eaters.
To be fair, she is not entirely consistent:
Q: What are your thoughts on people who eat meat, but who try to avoid factory-farmed meat or try to stick to humanely raised meat?
A: I donâ€™t have any thoughts about it. Thatâ€™s their business. Theyâ€™re meat eaters and thatâ€™s the way they see the world. They have their own philosophy and itâ€™s different from mine. - Chrissie Hynde, interview with Tracey Pepper, 2007
"All you hamburger-eating mother[censored]ers are gonna die!" - Chrissie Hynde, Boston Pretenders Concert, 1995
sarahb wrote She is probably willing to take your money in hopes that you will eat vegan fare at her restaurant and realize that you don't need meat in your diet, that would be my guess anyway.
That may be right, and there may be nothing more to it than that. Maybe I am reading too much into the whole situation.
Regardless, I don't think I need a serving of guilt with every course....

Posted 3 years ago #
sarahb
clintonville
Login to Send PM

, I don't think I need a serving of guilt with every course....
I see your perspective bear.

Posted 3 years ago #
somertimeoh
Harrison West
Login to Send PM

Bear wrote
sarahb wrote She is just very outspoken and passionate about animals which translates to some people as her hating meat eaters.
To be fair, she is not entirely consistent:
Q: What are your thoughts on people who eat meat, but who try to avoid factory-farmed meat or try to stick to humanely raised meat?
A: I donâ€™t have any thoughts about it. Thatâ€™s their business. Theyâ€™re meat eaters and thatâ€™s the way they see the world. They have their own philosophy and itâ€™s different from mine. - Chrissie Hynde, interview with Tracey Pepper, 2007
"All you hamburger-eating mother[censored]ers are gonna die!" - Chrissie Hynde, Boston Pretenders Concert, 1995
sarahb wrote She is probably willing to take your money in hopes that you will eat vegan fare at her restaurant and realize that you don't need meat in your diet, that would be my guess anyway.
That may be right, and there may be nothing more to it than that. Maybe I am reading too much into the whole situation.
Regardless, I don't think I need a serving of guilt with every course....
In all fairness, 12 years is a long time to mature and refine your opinions. Just 8 short years ago I swore daily, and publicly, that I would rather be choked to death than have a "real job" and not live for my music. I'm not saying the quotes don't contradict, just saying that it's easy to honestly feel both of those things over the course of 12 years :)

Posted 3 years ago #
Bear
The woods
Login to Send PM

sarahb wrote
, I don't think I need a serving of guilt with every course....
I see your perspective bear.
Good of you. Though that one sentence really doesn't capture the central point -- it was more of a frustrated throwaway line that I probably should have omitted. My ambivalence stems more from genuine confusion -- reasonable confusion, I think -- regarding whether or not I would be welcome. It seems that I would be welcome in her restaurant but not her home, which leaves me feeling... not really very welcome at all.
And perhaps, Somer, she has changed her opinion. But I believe her speech to PETA equating carnivores with terrorists was quite recent.
I don't know.... Maybe I just need to sleep on it.

Posted 3 years ago #
bustowner
NW bustown
Login to Send PM

[quote="zp945"]So is this really gonna happen or what? Anybody have an update?
An acquaintance of mine who is in commercial real estate approached Mr. Duplain (Ms. Hynde's business partner), on behalf of a client who owns a Short North restaurant which is for sale. He was informed that they've already finalized a location.
So, where? I can only guess. We know it is not East Village, as that recently sold to a local group. Bluefish, then, or something else in The Cap?

Posted 3 years ago #
crsimp01
Columbus, Ohio
Login to Send PM

Chryssie Hynde's VegiTerranean has closed in Akron for good.

http://www.akronnewsnow.com/news/local/item/5687-vegiterranean-closes

Posted 7 months ago #
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
Login to Send PM

crsimp01 said:
Chryssie Hynde's VegiTerranean has closed in Akron for good.

http://www.akronnewsnow.com/news/local/item/5687-vegiterranean-closes

Guess that means they're not opening a new location in the Short North after all:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/rumor-mill-vegiterranean-coming-to-short-north

Posted 7 months ago #