Brewvies, this local place, gets requests for particular foods which are off the edges of normal industrial food. Though, lets be upfront about it, Brewvies food is almost all hand made in house to order: it is a funky care filled local foodie glory hole and not a heatless industrial bun filler. But the menu, nonetheless runs a little roughshod over the particular food desires of its progressive patrons.
Three particular groups are common and should be addressed in the menu: Vegetarians, Vegans, and Atikinsers. And historically all three have been considered at some level or other. However currently, the vegan selection of the menu has diminished hugely for several reasons.
First, the chips are made in house, which is nice, but makes them not vegan, as they share the oil with the various fried meat appetizers. The marinara which used to be the basis of the best vegan pizza in the Utah now has cheese in its current version. And the veggie chilli has butter in it.
There are some extraordinary items available for the vegetarian at Brewvies. The black bean egg-rolls are hand made and more than a little special, and thats a Bing Crosby special, mind you, not a Conan O'Brian special. And the nacho's are really good, and ordered as those kitchen gods make them unembellished, are vegetarian. Holler out you carnivores for the BQ pork on your nacho's, its just plain good.
The Brewvies Falafel wrap is a portamento foodie moment made for two hands. Like a piano combines percussion and strings, it combines to great ideas, the middle eastern tradition of chick pea fried filling in a Mexican tortilla. Strongly flavored with Madras curry and Greek olives it is a world tour in one eye opening bite. And vegetarian. Ordered with an alternative dressing like a balsamic vinaigrette - it comes with a yogurt based curry dressing - and it is a good vegan choice - if you can live with the shared fry oil. Still. close....
Many of the pizzas are vegetarian, and all of the burgers can be ordered with black bean garden patty.
Atkinsers, those who eat meat and veg and oil and fruit, but avoid carbs and sugar, can order a number of things pretty happily.
It seems like there might be some angle in seeing if you couldn't get a salad instead of fries with fish and chips or the chiken finger basket. Or have a particular wrap, like say the falafel, made as a salad. This would be a good approach to avoiding the carbs. Also the salads all can have chicken put on them. or the Ceaser salad in its current version comes with chicken fingers on it already. And I think that the Ceaser at Brewvies is delicious. I often get it as a side with a Creole burger when I eat there.
I don't know exactly how much a place should consider food minorities in its menu selection, but it seems like a place as obviously progressive and as likely to have a captive audience as Brewvies is, might consider a few intentionally friendly foods for these people, marketed more broadly as delicious dining choices which happen also to be favorable the the particular foodie.
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