VEGETABLES

The Slice approach to primavera pasta involves sautéing vegetables with minced garlic and red pepper infused oil. Vegetables are stir-fried at the Tea Garden. For burger loving vegetarians, Angeli's serves a veggie burger. Beck-N-Call Café offers a vegetable sandwich with grilled portobello, tomatoes, mixed greens, carrots, alfalfa sprouts and mozzarella. Order Mu Sui Vegetables at Trey Yuen Cuisine of China and receive four Chinese pancakes filled with stir-fried egg and assorted vegetables. Chez Nous does a Southern-style squash pecan casserole and smothered turnip greens. The vegetarian appetizer at Cleopatra is Dolmeh — grape leaves stuffed with vegetables, lentils, rice, herbs and spices. Refuel's chilled roasted vegetables are augmented with crumbled feta, assorted lettuces and balsamic vinaigrette. The gardeners at Martin Wine Cellar place grilled squash with zucchini and portobello mushrooms on a ciabatta roll and then add grilled tomatoes, spinach, gruyere cheese and arugula-kalamata olive pesto. Subway's trademarked veggie delite is described as a "salad sandwich." The vegetarian pizza at Café Roma involves mushrooms, black olives, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, green olives and tomato sauce. In the same realm, Papa John's has a garden fresh pizza with green peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives and Roma tomatoes. Taj Mahal prepares many traditional Indian vegetable curries such as the dal makhani, a dish of cardamom scented butter-whipped lentils flavored with curry leaves. One of the steamed vegetable patties prepared at Pho Tau Bay includes deep-fried tofu topped with roasted peanuts, fried shallots and green onions. Café Luna's vegetarian toast features Swiss and cheddar cheese, black olives and tomatoes. The sautéed vegetable entree at Lebanon Café features eggplant, red, green and yellow peppers, squash, cauliflower, broccoli and carrot. The smoked gouda cheese and veggie sandwich at Columbia Street Natural Foods also includes lettuce, carrots, avocado, onion and tomato on whole wheat bread. The Market on Esplanade offers grilled vegetables such as eggplant and squash. Byblos makes a lemony hummus and serves it with warm pita bread as an appetizer. Surrey's Café & Juice Bar offers both carrot and beet juices.