“Brilliant” dishes “brimming with flavour” have won renown for this “inventive” Lanes fixture as “the UK’s best veggie restaurant”; a number of former fans have found the experience “more frenetic” of late however, and the cooking a touch “hit-and-miss”.
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AA Gill (10th May 2010)
Food 5/5 stars, Atmosphere 3/5 stars
“Terre à Terre’s food has enormous, sometimes incoherent flavours and a jumble sale of textures and temperatures. It’s overcomplex, a Babel of ideas, an argument on a plate, and it’s as camp as a Brazilian trannies’ chorus line, but it is also exciting and fun, and it’s somehow held together with sound technique and a generous soul.” High praise for this Brighton vegetarian (long lauded in Harden’s), where “[n]othing on the menu is anything you’ve eaten elsewhere.” “This is most probably the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain...It is singularly and eccentrically marvellous.”
Jasper Gerard (4th March 2008)
5/10
Perhaps you can’t expect a sensible review in the Telegraph of a veggie restaurant? This one kicks off with some supposedly amusing thoughts on vegetarianism generally, before making “an undercover raid, deep behind enemy lines, to… one of Britain's best regarded vegetarian safe houses”. “Terre à Terre is leading the [no-meat] debate”, concludes the critic, “but it needs to hone its argument”.
AA Gill (10th May 2010)
Jasper Gerard (4th March 2008)
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