Chicago Vegan Fest 6/10/17 by vegansilverstack

food · @vegansilverstack · Jun 11 '17 (edited)

$1.73

Chicago Vegan Fest 6/10/17

**I was able to go to the Chicago Vegan Fest today in Grant Park. I only have a few photos of the event, but I will leave you all with them and a critique of the event in general. Being a vegan for several years now, it's not everyday that I eat faux meat and cheeses, so having an event like this sounded good. My brother, his two kids, my mom and I all took part in the festivities today.**


**We walked for about an hour from the parking garages of Northwestern Hospital, my mom's workplace, to Grant Park. We noticed a pretty big fire on the way.**

![IMG_1610.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR1erx1pHGh5xVQzSgvuXGJ6zGznGHSDXJzKYAw2qGofX/IMG_1610.JPG)

![IMG_1609.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQma9TvLuvyYHzWJ69s4srwRGBKPCdZB5iaoVZ8z6Yi9DfX/IMG_1609.JPG)


**The place was very crowded, and the lines were very long for the different food tents from the vendors. I believe this was the second annual event, so maybe next year they could try figure out a way for the lines to not be so long (have more help at each tent).**

**Everything was way overpriced, but you could probably guess that. I believe alcoholic drinks were $8 and non-alcoholic drinks were $2.**



**I waited in line about an hour for the highly anticipated Doomie's tent, which boasted their famous vegan Bic Mac.**

**The single burger was $10 and the double was $15. They "ran out" of the double (I believe it was a marketing trick to be able to get rid of all the buns they brought and get more burgers to more people) before I could order mine.**

### Doomie's (of Toronto)

![IMG_1613.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVMhnYiAehkSacpKrBM42xJBb7nJtKeEcy77UTnnw4Cfz/IMG_1613.JPG)

### Doomie's Big Mac
![IMG_1612.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTqA7zJGJwhndXfrgYVKvaNT1yWGcrpbKMBFDsEbTcFFr/IMG_1612.JPG)

**It was delicious, but not worth the wait. The only thing that made it worth the wait was that I met two Brazilian girls who I talked with for the whole hour and a half. They were really cool and a pleasure to meet and converse with. They also had a Dutch friend with them, who was a cool guy too.**


**This was the drink line - I waited 30 minutes for a beer. Next year they should have more staff to accommodate.**

![IMG_1615.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmS2EtxkrHaerXFozFRESuchBQqRMBBxbbp5zU7CT2DBWs/IMG_1615.JPG)

![IMG_1616.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP2vjVGX7UbgJgLHxh7vquGHdYAR1JuxQnYhBqTutkiWi/IMG_1616.JPG)

**I wish I could show you more of the tents, because there were probably 50-70, but the truth is that I only tasted a few samples of different items and ate the Doomie's burger due to the extremely long lines for everything. I only went because my mom got tickets, so I probably wouldn't go again next year. In the end, I still had fun. Kind of a love-hate kind of day.**

Thanks for stopping by!

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@monkimo · Jun 11 '17

$0.32

Vegan Festivals are popping up everywhere. I'm not sure if I want to go for the same reasons u stated in your post. I can have a vegan festival at home! Lol!

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@vegansilverstack · Jun 11 '17

Exactly. It's fun and it's only once a year but the prices make me want to stay home lol.

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@riostarr · Jun 11 '17

$0.32

thanks for sharing

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@choogirl · Jun 11 '17

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This reminds me of the first Vegan Festival in Brisbane Australia in 2015 in terms of somewhat poor organisation. In Brisbane, the venue was way too small for the numbers, they made everyone wait ages to get in despite advertising the opening time, the food lines were too long and then they ran out of food. It was a big mess basically and people really vented their frustrations to the organisers on social media. That said, the speakers there were really good and if you could get food it was also pretty good. I wasn't in Australia last year so I'm not sure if it improved.

Hopefully one day I'll make it to one of the successful, well organised events!

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@vegansilverstack · Jun 11 '17

Wow thanks for your insight. Yeah there weren't good speakers at this one. There was a hot dog eating contest and a beer chugging contest which was fun to watch though.

👍 choogirl

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@vincent4384 · Jun 11 '17

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DOOMIES IS SO BOMB  I love going to their location in Los Angeles. 

and vegfest is super overpriced i try to just find all the samples, especially at the end and people ended up buying me things too haha

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@vegansilverstack · Jun 11 '17

Ha that's awesome! I didn't realize they had an L.A. location! Yeah you can't beat free food!

👍 vincent4384

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@nickmorphew · Aug 10 '17

We went to the Sydney Vegan fest a couple years back.. but it hasn't been back for a while. not sure why though.

I've been vegan for about 4 years. Best move.

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