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SMAK in the Province

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Gluten Free Fast Food is Talking SMAK!

SMAK in Coal Harbour’s financial district is a 100% gluten-free restaurant that is changing the way we think of fast food — everything the fast food industry destroyed over the last 60 years is everything SMAK is rectifying now.

smak 005 Gluten Free Fast Food is Talking SMAK!

Brendan Ladner of Smak Healthy Fast Food said: “We started out with one concept only, Real Food From Scratch, then we realized how easy it was to go gluten free.”

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SMAK in The Georgia Straight

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Photo by MICHELLE DA SILVA

Vegetable-packed noodle bowl from SMAK Healthy Fast Food makes a wholesome meal

Unlike some chefs and restaurateurs, Brendan Ladner didn’t learn how to cook from his mother. In fact, his mom rarely made meals from scratch, so Ladner—who is the oldest of four children—taught himself.

“With a lot of my friends, both parents worked and didn’t make time to cook,” he told the Georgia Straight during an interview at his restaurant, SMAK Healthy Fast Food (1139 West Pender Street). Consequently, Ladner and many of his peers felt lost in the kitchen.

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Vancouver’s need for more Gluten Free Choice

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Last month we had the pleasure of trying to attend the Gluten Free Expo in Vancouver. To our surprise the line up to get in was extremely long. After sometime we were approached by an organizer letting us know that we were going to be unable to get in. The cut off line started with us and certainly went through hundreds if not thousands more behind us. Although we initially felt disappointed we were also intrigued to see how the organizers grossly under estimated the amount of people who were trying to attend. To their defense they had already double the square footage and amount of exhibitors of the event from the previous year. As safe estimation in my opinion. They simply had no way of knowing that almost 20,000 people were going to show up more, more than 4 times their estimate.

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We Are Open!

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We are open in Downtown Vancouver located at 1139 W. Pender Street.

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Check out our blog for regular articles on healthy, fast, organic, fair trade, super, gourmet foods, recipes and SMAK news. We will keep you informed on locally sourced food and compostable initiatives for low impact on earth.

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