Concluding Thoughts on ‘Ben’s Vegan Vancouver’
Review of Purpose When I visited Vancouver for the first time in 2017, I was intrigued by the quantity of plant-based restaurants within the city – particularly in its neighbourhoods of Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. From what I observed even then, the philosophy of veganism seemed to be very important to the entrepreneurs and the […]
Blog 7: The Challenges Facing Vegan Entrepreneurship
Introduction: Tears on the Rainbow Road It was late September and there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky or sliver of shade as the sunlight washed out the deep, rich reds of the brick buildings that lined the street and muted the green hues of the streetlamps along West 4th Avenue in Kitsilano, fondly […]
Blog 6: Common Themes in Vegan Business
Introduction Spring had just arrived in the neighbourhood, and the trees and along the street seemed to be celebrating the occasion as their hues of blues and greens undulating delicately in the wind like a Van Gogh painting. To most eyes, those leaves would have been difficult to see, for they were mostly obscured by […]
Blog 5: Religious Refugees, Rainbow Roads, and Ravenous Appetites
When my wife, Brianne, and I visited Vancouver, B.C., for the first time in 2017, we were familiar with the city’s reputation for being home to many vegetarian restaurants (DH Vancouver Staff, 2017). Most Vancouverites we met would recommend The Acorn in Mount Pleasant because of its award-winning reputation (Saddy, 2020), or The Naam in […]
Blog 4: My Vegan Neighbours
Vancouver is home to more than 40 vegan businesses, and many of them are located in the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant (Happy Cow, 2022). The following is an introduction to twelve vegan businesses, or VBs, and their entrepreneurs (VEs) who consented to participating in my project and being featured in my blog series. […]
Blog 3: It’s Not Just What You Eat
Are Vegans Rude to Grandma? 2017 was a year of many new transitions for Brianne and me. We got married, put most of our belongings in storage, and began our journey across Canada and the U.S. That year also marked another transition for us: it would be the first long-distance trip that either of us […]
Blog 2: Do All Vegan Businesses Have a Vegan Mission?
Inspiration in a Diner “In the diners in all the world…this one has vegan options?!” True, my reaction was cliché, and could have even been construed as flippant. Nonetheless, I couldn’t help but to express my simultaneous amusement and befuddlement, for I had never expected to see a restaurant with vegan options – let alone […]
Blog 1: The Quiet Vegans
Weeks before much of the world became familiar with lockdowns and quarantines, I was ascending and descending the many dynamic hills of San Francisco. I had grown up across the Bay, and even though an expanse of water and a range of hills lay between my childhood hometown and that gleaming city, its famed fog […]
An Introduction to ‘Ben’s Vegan Vancouver’
Relevance In both popular culture and in academia, vegan philosophy is most often discussed within the context of animal rights and diet. These two subjects are important and merit research, yet the vegan philosophy is intersectional (Harper, 2011) and, therefore, is applicable to a myriad of other subjects, like business. In 2020, the global value […]
The Best Vegan Restaurants in Montréal
You can dine at restaurants specializing in Thai, Syrian, Japanese, American, Canadian, and even Mexican cuisine.