Can one eat at a non-certified Vegetarian restaurant where they don’t use meat, seafood, or cheese?
• ANSWER: While a vegetarian restaurant has the potential of being Kosher it is not Kosher unless there is Rabbinic supervision. The concerns; 1) Ingredients – such as eggs, fish, spices, or any product that is not certified. 2) Equipment – if the equipment is used or might have been used for non-Kosher food, then even the benign veggie food is non-kosher. 3) Infestation – some leafy vegetables such as spinach, cauliflower, etc. are not adequately checked for insect infestation. 4) Tainted benign products – for example, 100% vegetable oil may be not kosher because it was shipped in a Tanker that had been recently used for lard. 5) Grape Additives – many recipes call for grape or grape juice additives. 6) The Rabbinical prohibition against eating foods cooked by a gentile – While this prohibition is not applicable to all foods, it certainly applies to a course of fish. It would also apply to a long list of foods that cannot be eaten raw, and foods that would be special enough to be plac
