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Non-veg
Serves meat, vegan options available. Indian restaurant. Indian style decor and music. Small menu with several dishes suitable for vegetarians. Broccoli pakora, vegetable curry, aloo baighan masala with rice and naan. Reported closed Nov 2018.
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10 Reviews
First Review by PaleIrishVeggie
Evadelag
Points +438
delicious lunch - Edit
I love this place for a “more fancy” lunch. In the menu it’s clearly marked what’s vegan and other allergies info. Great tasty food. Big portions. I looovveee the vegan dumplings. So so good
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KoenH
Points +225
best Indian in Belgum - Edit
This must be my favourite Indian restaurant outside India... The service is great, the dishes are adapted to vegan if you request... tuesdays are vegetarian lunches. Great food!
Read morePros: Vegan when asked for
Cons: expensive
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Meaks
Points +5827
Great Meal - Edit
Excellent Indian restaurant with outdoor seating in picturesque square. There is a set price including starter and main. Either meat or vegetarian, some options are vegan or they would adapt. The lady serving was very careful to make sure everything supplied was vegan, for example we got a roti instead of a naan. For starter we shared a dosa and onion bhajis, followed by vegan curries with rice and roti. Very enjoyable.
Read morePros: Vegan options, Nice terrace, Excellent food
Cons: Serves meat, Service a little slow
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NicoleJergovic
Points +20
Good vegan options - Edit
Nice to find a place that has actual vegan options on the menu in Belgium. Delicious. Great service.
Read morePros: good food, great service
Cons: The Naan was not vegan
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HarishTaoji
Points +15
Authentic and friendky - Edit
The Bhavanis is an authentic and friendky indian restaurant in Bruges, Belgium. Vegetarians, esoecially Indians do often struggle to get proper vegetarian food that is tasty and true to palate when travelling abroad.
Read moreMy wife and I visited this restaurant and were pleasantly surprised by the standard, the decor and ambience is authentic Indian, complete with classical Indian music to complete the experience. The staff are not just friendly but well informed about the discerning Asian pallets and work hard to cater to the variety if needs from Siuth Indian, through to Gujarati and Panjabi. The portions are admirable and very well presented in true Indian style. We celebrated my wife's 60th birthday and were truly spoiled!
While the prices do tend to be on the higher side, if you wish to enjoy proper I dian meals in Bruges, this mist certainly is the place!
Pros: Authentic cuisine, Excellent ambience, Very friendly staff
Cons: On the expensive side, Often table needs to be booked
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Adolfas
Points +28
Don't even bother - Edit
We're both vegan, so we went in and ask if they have anything vegan. The answer was blunt "NO". Are you serious? Even if you are vegetarian place, at least try to make an effort!
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Treebeard
Points +34
Fine food and thumbs up to the informative menu - Edit
My girlfriend and I have been to Brugge two times, both times we ate at Bhavani because we love indian food. A great thing about this restaurant is the informative menucard, which will let you know if there is any diary products in the food. The food is well tasting and well made, the atmosphere is very nice, and the price is standard Brugge, a little expensive.
Read morePros: Vegan friendly menucard, Wonderful atmosphere, Good food
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vegazosten
Points +116
Expensive, overcooked, limited for vegs/vegans! - Edit
Don't go in! Very expensive for what you get!
Read moreIt's been a while but OMG no more! We remember the dissapointment everytime we passed by or even reading that name. Visits the resto 2 times, 2 times a real dissapointment! The last time we asked for vegan dishes...no problem they said! OMG, it was overcooked rubbish food! We even couldn't recognise the vegetables and the colors where mostly brown or even gone! Everything exept the rice was overcooked. Cheap white rice was ok. Not even a quality rice(brown) for so much money? Shame you guys! We paid so much money for so less food and still hungry as small eaters??? Shame you! Horeca in Bruges are mostly not friendly and abuse lots of tourists for the money, even there own people who lived in or near Bruges! For vegans it's negative, sorry! Better go to Ghent!
Pros: Nice environment but that's it.
Cons: expensive, overcooked, colorless, not very friendly! Dissaster for vegans!
Pros: Nice environment
Cons: expensive and still hungry, overcooked tastless colorless, not very friendly, don't visit
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sagitta
Points +37
echt lekker! - Edit
Ein sehr leckeres indisches Restaurant. Der Wirt hilft bei der Auswahl der veganen Speisen und gibt detailliert Auskunft über die Zubereitung. Das Menü ist etwas teuer, aber eine Hauptspeise (ca. 15 Euro), eine Beilage, ein Geträunk: So kann man fur ca. 20 Euro gut essen.
Read moreJ'ai vraiment aime ce restau indien. Le patron aide à choisir des plats vegetaliens et sait bien decrire les plats. Les menus sont un peu chers, mais on trouve des plats a 15 Euros, avec du riz et une boisson on paie env. 20 euros. Ce n'est pas trop, surtout a ce lieu, au centre touristique de Bruges.
Pros: friendly staff, excellent food, nice place
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PaleIrishVeggie
Points +13
A Regretful Experience - Edit
Being a vegetarian in Bruges is difficult.Expect to get mediocre pasta,pizza or cheese croquettes for extortionate prices.I did do my research,tried to stay away from the more touristy eating areas,and go with the best reviewed eating options.However, 'De Bron' was closed for the weekend,and most other places with great reviews and good veggie options such as 'De Bottelier' were fully booked, even a day in advance.
Read moreLike most places in Bruges,we knew this place was expensive when we entered, but as a tourist sometimes you are willing to overlook the price, in an effort to just try and enjoy yourself on holiday and hope that the food and service will match up to the price.My boyfriend's non-vegetarian food was mediocre and my vegetarian food was less than average; A lentil soup for starter(the cheapest at approx €7).Other options included a veg samosa or veg pakora at an astonishing €13. For the main,a curry of mostly brussel sprouts(€16) & plain basmati rice at an extra cost.
However our experience worsened when we received the bill. Having been overcharged for my order, I queried the owner. (Our €100 bill should have come to €8 less).It became apparent that although I ordered from the 'al la carte' menu and my boyfriend from the €33 'set menu',we were both charged the set menu price.The owner was immediately confrontational and condescending.I explained that the main problem was the fact that he did not make the restaurant's unusual billing process clear to us(which was only explained in a footnote in Dutch).He then calculated our bill again according to the 'al a carte' prices rather than the set menu prices,returned and smugly pointed out that if everything was charged at the 'al a carte' prices that it would amount to a difference of €1.50 less than his original bill.He asked if it really mattered or if we had known the policy, would we have ordered any differently.We said yes.He then demanded to know what we would have ordered! By this time the argument became a matter of principle rather than money and his attitude had made thing infinitely worse,souring our entire evening. Lastly he jeered, "What should I do? Give you a discount of €8?".I answered simply "Yes".He laughed arrogantly and said in a patronizing tone as he turned his back on us and walked away, "Pay what you want".We paid the bill minus the €8 and left.This was a horrible experience.The website is also a complete deception.The food and presentation looks nothing like they advertise.
Pros: Getting out of here
Cons: Expensive, Mediocre indian, Rude
vegazosten
Visiting Bruges is mostly a dissapointment or a big problem for veggies and a dissaster for vegans.
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