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The Retreat Tearooms is a vegetarian cafe during the day and bistro on Friday and Saturday evenings and happily caters for vegans and those with allergy requirements. I and my husband visited on a Friday evening and both chose the aubergine stack to start ,with houmous replacing the goats cheese for myself and it was a tasty start to the meal, as I love all the components of the dish, so it was a winner. Main course was a gluten free gourmet soya burger for my husband, who said it was hard to distinguish from a meat burger, it had relish, salad, chips and pickled gherkin and he struggled to finish it all. I chose an adaptation of the filo parcel dish, with a vegan curry sauce and chips, again it was delicious, the parcel was packed with vegetables and I loved the sauce. I was pretty full by this time, but grilled peppered peaches, pistachio crumb and raspberries, were impossible to resist it was topnotch. My husband chose white chocolate and ginger cheesecake, which he could not fault either. My only niggle is the wine list, with no vegan wines labelled, although you would presume that all the wines would be vegetarian, but this was not clear either. However I kicked off with a bottle of Corona and we continued with wine I knew was vegan, but maybe this is something The Retreat will look at in the future. All in all a lovely place and from hearing conversations in the dining room, most of the diners near us, were not even vegetarian but loved the food...a compliment to chef. We would definitely return.