Sunday 3 March 2013

Pulse, Norwich

This is somewhere I've been a few times, as it's central and unlike many restaurants you can guarantee more than one vegetarian dish on the menu - as it's totally vegetarian!

This place is open all day and evening too, and going in the daytime gives the most choice, as they then serve lighter meals such as sandwiches, as well as dinners. There's a specials board and a good choice of juices. Less so of desserts: the one on the specials board had been crossed out when we arrived at about 7pm, and there were about four or five other choices available on the menu, including ice-cream. Many savoury dishes were spicy, which is a bit tough if that's not your thing, and quite a few were cheese-based, which is a bit disappointing for a specialist vegetarian cafe: we get enough of that sort of thing in the mainstream. I would like to see a wider range of protein types.

Having said that, the food is usually good quality and my pizza was very nice. My partner's plate looked pretty full too with plenty of vegetable accompaniments.

The pudding wasn't my favourite: advertised as a chocolate brownie, it was a bit like eating papier mache flavoured with cocoa, but the chocolate sauce with it was lovely.

As I said, we often go there, as the opening hours are convenient and the food reasonably priced and usually good.