I feel that goes for vegetarian as well. The vegetarian dishes that don't pretend to be a meat dish tend to be much more delicious.

My early rule with vegetarian places is soups. I know there's good options otherwise, but there's plenty of all veg soups everyone already like, and it's not too bad to swap a meat broth with a flavorful veg broth.

Vegetables are tasty on their own if you cook them well!

To me, chicken sometimes tastes like garlic and herbs, while for some others, it tastes like chicken. Whenever I cook vegetables in my oven, I sometimes add garlic and herbs, people often says it tastes like chicken.. I guess meat is tasty also because it is cooked that way. Take that way of cooking, test it on vegetables, and you legit have some good recipe. There's a ton of recipes in my country where you're supposed to cook the meat during 8 hours inside overly complex sauces involving red wine, herbs, spices, garlic, onions, salt and all that jizz-jazz; I mean, if people took that much care to vegetables, for sure they would taste good.

Raw vegetables are also perfectly fine and tasty.

It sounds like it's still in the phase where it costs $10,000 per rice grain to grow.