Sous chef Tabatha Stahl has been a fixture in the kitchen at Railtown Café since 2012. The talented chef spent her childhood in Williams Lake, B.C., learning how to harvest produce while perfecting family recipes alongside her grandmother. After graduating from culinary school in 2007, she relocated to Vancouver and began honing her skills at a number of the city’s acclaimed restaurants (including CinCin Ristorante) before joining the Railtown team. Today, Tabatha specializes in preparing fast, fresh fare for hungry lunch-hour crowds who flock to Railtown in droves to chow down on colourful signature salads, gourmet sandwiches and scratch-made desserts.
Railtown Café recently expanded its popular fast- casual café concept across town with a second location at Howe and Nelson. Offering made-to-order gourmet sandwiches, signature salads, and a tempting array of pastries (scratch-made doughnuts anyone?), this new downtown outpost will have you “forgetting” your lunch daily. The house-made Kale Salad is a customer favourite and is both virtuous and delicious – the colourful medley includes quinoa, shaved apple and fennel, spiced yams, beets, broccolini, feta and crispy squash chips dressed in apple cider vinaigrette. If a mid-week indulgence is in order, treat yourself to a heavenly peanut crunch bar for dessert.