While Vancouver’s food-truck initiative has given more options to pedestrians, those stuck in their cars still have only fast-food fare to choose from.
As much as it’s been repeatedly sold, changed, rundown, lost in a sea of competition, and finally leased out of existence in 2008, Vancouver hasn’t let go of this working-class burger joint.
All four new food vendors I sampled recently offer superlative eats. A year of maturity looks good on Vancouver’s foray into the post hot-dog-only street-food scene.
Postsecondary institutions are hungry for Web 2.0 experts like Alexandra Samuel, director of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Social and Interactive Media Centre.
For those who cringe at the thought of an entire DIY party, even the notoriously wallet-destroying cheese tray can be made cheaper—and fresher—with some thoughtfulness.
Before I ate at Romer’s Burger Bar, I equated a tantalizing burger with something sloppy. The Rodeo Star burger at Romer’s was my education, and at $11, the cheapest tuition I’ve ever paid.
The key for the new mobile venders will be to either directly compete or distinguish themselves from the flashy night market stalls and provide something Vancouverites can’t get from restaurant takeout.
The million-dollar question is this: how can bureaucrats and politicians make an increasingly inactive and overweight teenage population snap out of it?
In the context of a renewed interest in urban agriculture, locally grown food, and DIY production, fishing within the city limits could see a comeback.
You wouldn’t think navigating a restaurant, even with some obstacles, would be a problem in what Tourism Vancouver’s Web site calls “one of the most accessible cities in the world among travelers with special needs”.
Last night (March 1), the bold-yet-socially-awkward Vienna Girardi beat out the lovely-yet-bland Tenley Molzahn in the fight for Jake Pavelka in The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love.