Spain specializes in seafood since it is surrounded by Mediterranean in Atlantic City on three sides and is ideally known as Iberian Peninsula. This does not mean that vegetarians cannot enjoy dining in Spain. Spain is also known for some extra fine delicacies that are made using fresh produce and there is a lot that even vegetarians feel delight in having. A bit knowledge about few words and key phrases will help in navigating Spanish menu and find some great vegetarian delights.

Learning how to order vegetarian food in a Spanish restaurant is not very difficult. First of all you need to search for ‘few words’ or ‘cognate’ that you feel sounds similar in both languages. Words such as ‘ensalada’ and ‘vegetables’ mean the same i.e. vegetarian food. You can look for other similar words such as huevos (meaning eggs), patatas (meaning potatoes), arroz (meaning rice). These are absolutely safe to be eaten by vegetarians. Most of the Spanish restaurants will offer pimientos assados which means grilled green peppers. Tortilla espanola stands for Spanish egg and potato omelet and almost all restaurants in Spain are going to serve you same with butter and bread.

There are a lot of food items that you can easily alter. For example paella Valencia -- the famous Spanish rice dish that is generally prepared using shrimps and other seafood items can be made vegetarian by saying "Queria paella sin carne ni mariscos"(meaning that you would prefer to have paella without seafood or meat). Alternatively, you can simply say "pero con verduras solo" which means “with vegetables only”.

There are a lot of servers that may understand a bit of English, even if they are not fluent in English. The word “vegetarian” is understood universally. However, in a restaurant you may ask "Hay comidas vegeteranas?" which means that ‘is the restaurants serving anything that is vegetarian.’

Different regions of Spain may serve you different vegetarian specialties. Alternatively if you are not staying in a hotel and your accommodation happens to be a villa, you have an advantage of cooking yourself, you can always grab something that is fresh in market them yourself. These days, a number of continental and Spanish recipes are available online and you can always check them in order to make sure that you're having something without fish or meat.

Spanish people generally use olive oil for cooking which makes their dishes even more taste worthy. You can also do the same with Spanish dishes and have a great time in Spain.

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