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11/11/2013: We're sad to report the closure of our beloved Gasometer.

September 7, 2013

We reigned in our Gasometer posting frequency but now, a year on, it's time we made our tenth post and notified you of their new menu. (Yes, we were sneaking in for the old menu plenty in the meantime.) It's still a basketful of deep-fried vegan-friendly Americana - wings, poutine, mac'n'cheese, ribs, burgers and dogs. 

For all that, I checked out the vegan chicken salad ($16). It's a platter of iceberg lettuce dotted with tomatoes, carrot, celery and sprouts (they kindly skipped the onion on my request). The sprouts were bitter, and kinda put me out, but I shovelled up those vegetables like my health depended on them (and that week, it really did). The 'chicken' pieces were pretty dense, with a delightful crunchy lemon and herb crumb.

The other VERY IMPORTANT news regards the chips. Burgers are now served with shoestring fries and not the beer-battered beauties that we've known and loved so long. It seems you can still order a basket of the best (for $8 to the shoestrings' $6) so they're not entirely lost to us. (Should that day come, I shall probably compose a funereal video montage in their honour.) But be forewarned and forearmed with cash and appetite for all the chips.

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We have already blogged Gasometer a ridiculous and effusive one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine times. In the last year it's won the approval of fellow veg*n bloggers The Good Hearted and Appetite Affliction.

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The Gasometer
484 Smith Street, Collingwood
9417 5539
veg eats $8 - $20
http://www.gasometerhotel.com/

Accessibility: The Gasometer has a small step on entry. The tables are crowded in some areas but the booths and tables closest to the entry are relatively spacious. Ordering and payment occurs at a high counter. Male and female toilets are on the same level as everything else but are not particularly spacious.