Little Italy Vegetarian Italian Chain of Restaurants

Little Italy chain of restaurants with presence in numerous cities in India has its history embedded in the La Pizzeria restaurant at Bund Garden in Pune. This is where it all began in the early 1990s. Around 1995, the La Pizzeria Company expanded to include a full range of Italian vegetarian cuisine alongwith the pizzas. The name “Little Italy” evolved. Although the restaurant at Bund Garden in Pune continues to be known as La Pizzeria, all the other restaurants in different cities are attaining popularity by the name Little Italy.

Image from the Little Italy website

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Little Italy provides you one of the best experiences in Italian vegetarian/vegan dining. While the menu is primarily vegetarian, the Company is extremely sensitive to the requests of vegan and Jain diners. In fact, some dishes on the menu are already vegan; the others can be served vegan on your request. The Manager of La Pizzeria at Bund Garden in Pune informed us that the restaurant receives at least 2-3 requests for dairy-free (primarily cheese-free) dishes per day. Good news, that!

At Little Italy you can enjoy a wide variety of Italian cuisine from the thin crust delectable pizzas to the starters, soups, salads, risottos, pastas, enchiladas, and so on. Remember that you can get the dishes veganized.

Delicious Vegan “Pizza Mellino”

Little Italy contact details: Little Italy has restaurants across many cities in the country: Bangalore, Baroda, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nasik, Pune, Ranchi, Shirdi to name a few. Some cities have more than one Little Italy restaurant.

Looking at Cheese with a Vegan eye

The market in the West is teeming with Vegan versions of animal-based cheese. In India, compassionate small scale businesses have started experimenting with Vegan cheese making. Increasingly, people are eliminating the need for animal cheese in food items that traditionally demanded it.

Are you wondering how a dairy-cheese-less pizza/pasta/risotto/sandwich would taste?

Well try it then, you will be assured of one thing: you will not miss the dairy cheese!

Learn about what exactly is unvegan and unethical about the dairy cheese, and the alternatives available in the article, What’s in Your Cheese? from the Vegetarian Resource Group.