FOOD FAIR FRIDAYS! ROYAL CENTER!

POSTED October 16, 2009 BY Jef Choy

As mentioned in the First Food Fair Friday, I really like food fairs…if you work downtown too, it’s just what you do. When I first started working downtown, I made a valiant effort to sit in the lunch room with my tupperware full of leftover,s and listen to my co-workers bitch. After a few weeks though, I was over it and my quest for the best food fair in the city began.

This week I went to Royal Center. I first found out about this place years ago, it housed my favourite movie theatre in the city…..

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It showed real good movies cheap and it was dead, ‘Drugstore Cowboy’, ‘Say Anything’, ‘Do the Right Thing’…so may great movies I saw there. This was also the first place where I saw a movie by myself, a small but very empowering moment in my life. There’s nothing wrong with going to a movie by yourself….as I found out years later, going to Playland on the other hand, by yourself, does make you a loser. It’s the self-reflecting in the lines that’ll really do you in….

The movie theatre eventually closed down which was sad, but it was remodeled and now is the home of something else I really love, a food fair.

Rice and Spice is the real headliner here, usually when you go out to Indian food it’s not cheap, there I go again comparing everything to Chinese food. At the Rice and Spice you pretty much can’t physically eat ten bucks worth. They have a stamp program too which keeps you coming back. I usually go two items vegetarian and it’s real close to my $6 budget. Just as a point of reference, $6 is the new $5 downtown. The quality of food is very good, and I kinda like seeing my options in front of me before ordering, it makes me try new things.

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Note photo taken at 10am….

Category: Food and Drink,Public Spaces

katie

yeah this IS an awesome food fair. another win is the deli next (or pretty close) to the flying wedge. the line is always long but it’s worth it. i should also mention that you can even get brie cheese on your sandwich. yes i said brie.
Brock

He is correct, this place is very good, and usually has the longest lineup at lunchtime when the hoards of workers get hungry. I usually go a bit before lunch with no lineup’s
http://fairwaysandflips.blogspot.com/ Keith

Rice and Spice! I haven’t eaten there in ages. When I was eating out for lunch a lot a few years back, r&s was firmly in my rotation.

Another sick food fair is in the basement at Thurlow and Alberni… kitty corner from Shangri-la. This was at least 3 years ago… hopefully it’s still there.
http://www.vancouveriawesome.com jefchoy

It’s still there Keith but the riceball place isn’t…..so sad….
http://fairwaysandflips.blogspot.com/ Keith

Cool that food court is still there. It’s kind of slummy… it was always under construction, half the stalls were vacant. But the ones that were there, particularly the Japanese food ones, were amazing.

I’m on the go-home-for-lunch-to-save-money program.
Jeff

Nope, the food fair in the basement at Thurlow and Alberni is closed. That place was great hidden gems and some of the cheapest prices downtown. The Taiwan Beef Noodle place moved to Dunsmuir between Seymour and Richards. Don’t know what happen to the other places.
http://www.vancouveriawesome.com jefchoy

R.I.P….that was one of the places that inspired food fair fridays….
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