Rating Vancouver arenas based mostly on their vegetarian choices.
More often than not it looks like vegetarian and vegan choices have come a great distance. A meals author as soon as informed me that again within the 90s vegetarians simply would not get invited out however now we have now whole high-end and quick meals eating places devoted to our dietary preferences. So issues are higher.
That’s till you arrive at a sporting occasion or competition and understand that something apart from meat was an afterthought. Sizzling canines and burgers are quintessential sports activities meals and stadiums make a reputation for themselves with loopy imaginative variations of the basic bites.
In recent times Vancouver venues have additionally began to diversify the type of delicacies they provide by bringing in sushi, poke, poutine, and pizza – which is nice – however meat nonetheless performs an element within the majority of the dishes.
This is a take a look at how the stadiums and arenas in Vancouver stack up with regards to veggie choices. Sweet, fries, and delicate pretzels, whereas vegetarian, do not actually minimize it, they might be on the menu anyway and do not represent dinner.
This is what you possibly can eat as a vegetarian and native Vancouver sporting arenas as a result of, you realize, we like sports activities and concert events too.
Rogers Area
Rogers Area has 18 eating places serving the 18,910-seat venue, serving hand-carved sandwiches, seafood, poke, and gourmand scorching canines, to call a number of. The vegetarian menu, which is conveniently posted on their web site, has eight choices that do not fall into the snack class. Grilled cheese, Unattainable burger, veggie canine, cheese pizza, chopped noodle bowl with tofu, veggie poke, veggie poutine, and veggie gaucho are all out there, which implies that most of the meals locations have no less than one vegetarian possibility on provide. A few of these choices will also be made vegan if with easy modifications, like eradicating the sauce.
Nat Bailey Stadium
Nat Bailey Stadium is known for its 3-foot scorching canine and has lately launched tater tot poutine and a menu of rotating sandwiches to characterize visiting groups. By way of veggie choices, there’s a veggie canine that significantly has the style and texture of an actual scorching canine. In typical west coast style, Nat Baily additionally provides sushi and has sushi mascots that race throughout the video games. So there’s a veggie sushi possibility too. In any other case, vegetarians are left with nachos, fries, and mini donuts and have to observe their buddies consuming Philly cheesesteak.
BC Place
BC Place is maybe the most effective enviornment for vegetarian meals if just for the Mac Bar which serves up gourmand mac and cheese bowls. Even among the add-ons are veggie-friendly with choices like candy corn and cheese curds. There’s additionally cheese pizza from Business Drive Pizza and tofu canines from Dawson’s. Vegans are additionally represented with thrilling eats like Chana Masala Curry or veggie samosas by Bombay South Asian Kitchen. Or for many who are wholesome even at sporting occasions, there’s the Tremendous Comfortable Energy Bowl from Growth Kitchen which has tofu, butternut squash, chickpeas, edamame, tomato, and marinated slaw served on brown rice and quinoa.
Pacific Coliseum
It would not be a real Vancouver stadium and not using a Triple O’s. The Pacific Coliseum Triple O’s shares the venue’s meals scene with Pizza Pizza and a conventional concession stand which serves up scorching canines, popcorn, and donuts. There’s additionally a collection of fresh-made sandwiches however Pacific Coliseum could not touch upon whether or not or not they have been vegetarian after I phoned. So vegetarians are fairly restricted for choices with veggie burgers, cheese pizza, and normal concession snacks.
The Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Area
UBC has a extremely thriving meals scene with numerous thrilling locations on campus which might be value testing. Sadly that does not translate over on the college’s sporting enviornment which doubles as a live performance venue. Thunderbird, named for the college’s sports activities groups, has a fairly normal if not understated let’s consider concession state of affairs. It serves the ingesting crowd at a live performance or sports activities sport greater than the consuming crowd. You could find burgers, fries, and a few sweet bars however that is about it. As a vegetarian and UBC alum, I might suggest hitting up Jamjar Canteen, Tacomio, Kinton Ramen, and even Brown’s earlier than heading to the world which is a seven-minute drive or 18-minute stroll away from these locations.
