This Sandwich, That Beer Presents: The Vegetarian Sandwich Throwdown at The Portside Pub

Attention Vegetarians and Allies!!
The next This Sandwich, That Beer Throwdown is happening June 26 at The Portside Pub from 1-5pm. 

This edition of the TSTB Throwdown will be exclusively vegetable based, we have decided to mix it up because vegetarians are people too (wink, wink). Our contenders this time around have been asked to keep things meat free. Not only does this open the door to all you vegetarians out there, but we hope it will mean some seriously creative sandwiches! Breweries will once again be tasked with coming up the perfect cask beer to accompany the sandwich to create the winning pairing for the day. 

All proceeds will be going to Backpack Buddies! 

This edition’s competitors are:

Calabash Bistro x Yellow Dog

The Union x Bomber Brewing

The Dirty Apron x Dageraad

Handtaste Ferments x Powell Street Brewing

The Local Omnivore x 33 Acres

The Uncommon Cafe x Strange Fellows

Biercraft x Main Street Brewing

Hi-Five x Steel and Oak

The Blarney Stone x Townsite Brewing
Tickets are on sale now, but will not last long. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/this-sandwich-that-beer-throwdown-tickets-25721974117

This vegetarian edition has the potential to be one of the best yet with AWARD winning brewerie and some the best restaurants around getting crazy creative to deliver some serious veggie sandwiches!!!

You don’t want to miss this. 

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