The Carnegie Community Centre's cafeteria has long been a vital resource for residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, offering affordable and healthy meals every day of the year.
Volunteer kitchen leader Carl Rooney prepares burgers at the Carnegie Community Centre cafeteria in Vancouver , B.C., on Dec. 17, 2024.Barbecued chicken leg with dill potatoes and roasted vegetables. Pork schnitzel with a rich mushroom and onion gravy, served with a lemon-kale spatzle salad. Red Thai curry with honey sesame slaw and melon.
The offerings at this Vancouver cafeteria can change on a whim, and often do; seasonal produce or a surplus of ingredients can result in a spontaneous new dish, as can a family recipe from of a member of the kitchen’s diverse staff. But what has remained constant in decades of operation is a mandate to provide healthy and nutritious meals at low cost. Breakfast is $2.25, lunch, $2.75 and dinner, $3.50. Vancouver’s Carnegie Community Centre is often referred to by locals as the living room of the Downtown Eastside. Its library, outreach services, adult education and recreation programs draw together residents from the neighbourhood, some of whom live in small single-room occupancy dwellings with little communal space, some of whom are homeless. A main draw at the centre has long been the unassuming cafeteria on the second floor. Open 365 days a year and heavily subsidized by the city, it offers some of the tastiest – and most nutritious – fare in a neighbourhood where many residents are low-income.The Carnegie Community Centre's cafeteria is open 365 days a year and offers delicious and nutritious meals. Alvi Heikkilia, a cashier and kitchen attendant, updates the lunch specials on an afternoon in December.crisis, the café has seen demand double. Staff and a small army of volunteers now dish out about 700 meals a day on average, up from about 350 in the years before the pandemic. To keep costs low, the cafeteria relies on long-time partnerships with local suppliers, as well as food-recovery program
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