What a shame.
My boyfriend is a vegetarian, and when we went to Peche 8 months ago, we had a beautiful meal and a lovely experience - we had several apps and two mains, everything was delicious and the staff was so kind.
Our most recent trip was a totally different experience. Nothing on their website or reservation portal has changed in the interim to indicate this, but when we went most recently they told us they’re now frying everything in beef tallow and the only vegetarian options on the menu were two appetizer salads. We were already seated and had ordered drinks, so we asked if we could maybe order some of the vegetarian sides they include with their meat dishes to cobble together a meal. They refused, suggesting that it would be “wasteful” to allow that. The manager also made it extremely clear with her tone and affect how little interest she had in finding a possible workaround. Her only recommendation was to order the meat dishes and just eat the sides off of them. I suppose the idea that the meat would be wasted anyway doesn’t matter once it’s been paid for.
I know not every restaurant is set up to allow for every diet, and I understand if advance notice is needed sometimes to accommodate special needs. But since they were vegetarian friendly in the past, and haven’t posted anything publicly about their change in policy or warned on any of their platforms that some diets can no longer be served, it was shocking to be so rudely dismissed. I had raved about Peche to my friends, and we had planned on making it an annual tradition when we were in town, but now I doubt we’ll ever go back and I will certainly warn my friends away.