Veggie Hut Smethwick

High hopes dashed. In a house of 4 vegans and a vegetarian we thought we would try Veggie Hut. We all enjoy our pizzas and eat out often. We ordered a Vegan Veggie Hot (family £8.49), a Vegan Meat Feast (family £9.99). Veggie Hot (Medium £4.99), Vegan Chilli Chicken Burger (£3.75) and two large fries (£4.00). We ordered the food from the undertaker at the counter and sat down after being told it would be 20 minutes. After about 5 mins of something niggling me I realised that the visa receipt just did not tally. I was charged £36.22 however the items came to £31.22. I queried this at the counter and was told by a young lady that the extra £5.00 was for vegan cheese. I told her that there is no mention of this charge on the menu or the walls. She simply answered "he should of told you" and walked off. Her tone was as I was disturbing her with silly questions. We were hungry and in a hurry so I let it go hoping the food was worth it - as they say 'you get what you pay for'. We received our food and went home. Unfortunately when we got home the looks of disappointment on my boys faces was very apparent. The Meat Feast was flat as opposed to thin crust, with a very scarce amounts of cheese and even scarcer amounts of fake meat. It really looked like they counted the pieces out one by one per slice. Eating it was not enjoyable. The base itself stuck to your teath. It was seemed dry as did the fake meat. Cheese was flavourless.

The Vegan Vege pizza was only slightly better. The vegetables were again much more scarce than you would expect, sliced way too thin with the cheese being very slimy. The base however was a little better than the Meat Feast, but it still also stuck to our teeth. On the normal Vege pizza their was again a lack of Vegetables. This time my son stated it was more mushroom and jalepeno than anything else. There were patches of pizza missing cheese. None of the expected stringiness you get with normal pizza cheese.

The burger was a sad looking thing. Bun, Patti, slice of lettuce, ring of sauce slice of jalepeno. Bland of flavour and leaving my youngest very dissatisfied and cheated. The fries were nothing to sing about. Portion size was on the small side for a £2.00 portion.

All the pizzas were way too salty.

Verdict after discussing this with the family - Never will we go to Veggie Hut again.

We do love our pizza but Veggie Hut does not compare at all to Mr Singh's (West Brom, Wolverhampton, Handsworth) or Veggie Supreme (Wolverhampton) who are in a different league and don't charge extra for vegan options. At Veggie Hut you do not get the food you would expect for the prices they charge.