Boston, MA, USA: City gets world's largest vegan sports bar

Just opposite Boston's Fenway Park baseball stadium is a brandnew vegan sports bar, PlantPub. It's the second PlantPub venue and a collaboration between the company's founders Pat McAuley (serial entrepreneur), Sebastanio Casssio Castiglioni (vegan investor), and Mary Dumont (head chef), in partnership with Matthew Kenney (celebrity vegan chef). According to the founders, the new PlantPub seeks to make vegan food approachable and fun for people everywhere, allowing sports fans to eat better for both themselves and the planet. It will serve familiar favourites with locally sourced, sustainable ingredients, including burgers, nachos, buffalo cauliflower wings, pizza, sundaes and Boston cream pie.

Five times the size of the original location (launched in Cambridge in 2021), the new PlantPub can seat almost 300 people, and features a substantially larger kitchen, which means that Dumont and her team will be able to work on additional menu items throughout the year. PlantHub Boston also serves a substantial drinks menu which features a range of non-alcoholic and alcoholic craft beers and cocktails, all of which have been sourced from New England brewers and producers.

In an interview, Dumont commented on the launch: “We are mimicking all of the flavours that people know and love in a complete plant-based form. We have an opportunity to expose so many people to a new way of eating that is becoming more and more mainstream.” (livekindly.co)

It's certainly an exciting opening and a venue that is sure to encourage people from all walks of life to try vegan food for the first time.