Possible Clues:

• Half the trout's with duck in local batter - say, is that served in salad?
• Vegetable
• Vegetable good in the middle, could be better outside
• Dark red root eaten as a vegetable
• Fancy beer? Too little time for one to get pickled
• Vegetable cooked or used in salads and pickles
• Dark red bulb used as vegetable
• Vegetable tree cultivated in Wellington?
• Vegetable seen, perhaps, better with spectacles
• Red root vegetable