Recipes
Browse by: Dish Type Ingredient Cuisine Cooking Method Diet Season Menus Recipe Collections Quick Dinners View All
How-Tos
Cooking Techniques Ingredient Guides Equipment Kitchen Tips Entertaining View All
Product Recs
Equipment Reviews Taste Tests Buying Guides Editors' Picks Books Shop View All
Culture
Cuisine Guides Food History Food Science Personal Essays Podcast Travel Diaries Profiles Food Industry SE HQ View All
Dining Out
Boston Chicago Los Angeles New Orleans New York Philadelphia Portland, OR San Francisco Washington, DC View All
Your account
Saved Recipes >
Follow us
Recipes
Browse by: Dish Type Ingredient Cuisine Cooking Method Diet Season Menus Recipe Collections Quick Dinners View All
How-Tos
Cooking Techniques Ingredient Guides Equipment Kitchen Tips Entertaining View All
Product Recs
Equipment Reviews Taste Tests Buying Guides Editors' Picks Books Shop View All
Culture
Cuisine Guides Food History Food Science Personal Essays Podcast Travel Diaries Profiles Food Industry SE HQ View All
Dining Out
Boston Chicago Los Angeles New Orleans New York Philadelphia Portland, OR San Francisco Washington, DC View All
Saved recipes >

Search for recipes and articles

Popular Searches

Staff Favorites

  • Burgers
  • Korean
  • Corn
  • Bay Ridge
  • Brooklyn
  • Vegetarian
More Breadcrumbs
  • Dining Out
  • New York City
  • Brooklyn
  • Bay Ridge
  • Dining Out
  • New York City
  • Brooklyn
  • Recipes
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian

The Vegetarian Option: Longbow Pub & Pantry

The Vegetarian Option

Dining out meat-free.

Howard Walfish
0 Printer-Friendly Version
Published: August 11, 2011 Last Updated: August 12, 2019
20110809-165367-veg-option-longbow-sliders.jpg

[Photographs: Howard Walfish]

A gray, raining evening may be the best time to stop by Longbow Pub & Pantry. The food is warm and filling, the service is friendly, and while this Bay Ridge bar may not be the most exciting restaurant in the city, it has a lot more vegetarian options than most British pubs.

I'm not normally a fan of portobello "burgers", as the large mushrooms tend to overpower everything else on the bun, but Longbow's portobello sliders ($8.50 for 2) are just the right size. They're topped with melted mozzarella as well as a tasty mix of sauteed onions and green peppers (and the requisite lettuce and tomato). One was plenty for me, so you should bring a friend and share. The sliders are served with Longbow's excellent chips, known on this side of the pond as french fries, which get even better when doused with the tableside malt vinegar.

20110809-165367-veg-option-longbow-welshrarebit.jpg

What's New On Serious Eats

Welsh rarebit ($6.50) is a British classic that just happens to be vegetarian. At Longbow two slices of bread are covered with cheddar cheese that's been melted down with beer and "spices". The spices in this case tasted a lot like spicy mustard, which would pair well with any of the beers on tap. Without the thick slices of bread the sauce would be a bit too rich and unctuous, but together they made a perfect match. The sprinkling of parsley adds a nice green color to an otherwise overwhelmingly brown dish, but adds nothing in the way of flavor. As with the sliders, one order is more than enough for one person.

20110809-165367-veg-option-longbow-chipbutty.jpg

The dish I was most looking forward to was the chip butty ($5.50), something I'd only read about before and hadn't seen on any menus here in the States. This traditional pub snack may sound a bit strange—it's a sandwich of chips on bread with butter. Unfortunately the butter was missing completely from the bread I was served, and so when eaten as a sandwich it was far too dry. I had to resort to pulling the chips back off of the bread and eating them with more of the malted vinegar.

Although bars, and British pubs in particular, are not known for their vegetarian food, you'll be happy with the choices at Longbow. Bring your friends with you, even if they're not vegetarians; they'll be happy with their shepherd's pie, or their bangers and mash, but you won't be left out. Share your portobellos and your Welsh rarebit with them, but hoard the chips for yourself.

Longbow Pub & Pantry

7316 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11209 (map) 718-238-7468
longbownyc.com/

All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.

Howard Walfish Contributor, Vegetarian Option
  • Profile
  • Twitter

Howard Walfish is a Virginia native who has been living in New York since 2003. He is the co-founder of Eat to Blog and the creator of BrooklynVegetarian.

0 Printer-Friendly Version
Tags
  • bay ridge
  • brooklyn
  • the vegetarian option
  • vegetarian option
  • Bay Ridge
  • Brooklyn
  • Vegetarian
More Breadcrumbs
  • Dining Out
  • New York City
  • Brooklyn
  • Bay Ridge
  • Dining Out
  • New York City
  • Brooklyn
  • Recipes
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian
HIDE COMMENTS
Sign In or Register
No comments
Comments are closed
HIDE COMMENTS

Popular Recipes

Christmas

The Best Crispy Roast Potatoes Ever

These are the crispiest, most flavorful roast potatoes you'll ever make.

J. Kenji López-Alt
Chicken

Serious Eats' Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice With White Sauce 

Take the Halal cart home with you.

Caroline Russock
Chinese

Easy Fried Rice

Light seasoning helps fried rice shine.

J. Kenji López-Alt
American

Shrimp Scampi With Pasta

This is not the time to hold back on the butter or the garlic.

Daniel Gritzer

More Bay Ridge

Bab al Yemen: Destination-Worthy Middle Eastern in Bay Ridge

Bab al Yemen: Destination-Worthy Middle Eastern in Bay Ridge

A Sandwich A Day: Soppressata and Mozzarella at Paneantico

A Sandwich A Day: Soppressata and Mozzarella at Paneantico

The Family Store's Fine Prepared Foods in Bay Ridge

The Family Store's Fine Prepared Foods in Bay Ridge

Serious Eats
  • Latest
  • Masthead
  • Contact
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Jobs
  • Sitemap
  • FAQ

Follow Us

  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your California Privacy Rights
  • © 2021 Serious Eats Inc., by Dotdash

Welcome! Please sign in.

Forgot password?