Vegetarianism is a way of life for so many people. More and more people I know are opting to become vegetarians or vegans, for health or religious reasons. It is therefore a matter of time before an onslaught of pure vegetarian fine-dine restaurants take the city by storm. We already have a set of pure veg restaurants that are doing very well for themselves, from Cream Center and New Yorker to Quattro and Little Italy which serve international cuisine. Latest to join the bandwagon is Vedge, pure vegetarian as the name suggests, serving up assorted Indian, Italian and Asian fare.
Vedge is located in Andheri’s action packed Fun Republic Mall, and is sandwiched between Copper Chimney famous for their meat and kababs and the boozy Irish House. It’s interesting to see how a vegetarian, alcohol-free Vedge holds fort there. Vedge stands for ‘Vegetarian with an edge’. An interesting word play on the name, which symbolizes both the food and the concept. We had a lovely little chat with restaurant owner Aditya Sawant who at 22 years of age had the gut and gumption to start off a concept like this. His concept works in my opinion, as it caters to the well travelled and well read vegetarian who may want more than just Udipi fare for dinner.
I was there to sample Vedge’s latest offering, a lunch buffet priced at only Rs. 299/- plus taxes. No kidding! A buffet in that price, in today’s day and age is hard to find. And since I’m constantly on the look out for the city’s best buffets I jumped at the chance to go eat there.
