vegan restaurant
A full-service eatery serving foods without meat, fish, dairy, or eggs, and usually without honey.
A vegan restaurant is a full-service eatery whose menu consists exclusively of foods prepared without animal products. This means that no meat, poultry, fish, seafood, dairy products, or eggs are served or used in food preparation. Usually honey is omitted too. There may be dishes designed to taste like meat, using tofu, seitan, or other vegetable-, legume-, or grain-based foods.
The restriction applies to the menu as a whole, unlike a vegetarian restaurant, where a majority of qualifying foods is sufficient.
Plant-based dishes resembling meat remain included because the ingredients determine the food restriction. The stated treatment of honey is usual omission rather than a new absolute condition.
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