You’ve bought to be a fairly large deal to get an area like SAP Heart to explode its complete concessions menu. Billie Eilish is that huge of a deal.
When the Grammy and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter brings “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour” to San Jose for 2 sold-out reveals Tuesday and Wednesday, followers will discover solely vegan and vegetarian choices, consistent with Eilish’s advocacy for plant-based diets.
So what does that imply? Vegan scorching canine, hen tenders and pizza will likely be on the menus, together with popcorn, pretzels and chips and salsa. Vegan Mob will likely be providing vegan soul meals choices; Arteaga’s will likely be making its burritos and tacos with sofritas or veggies and serving them with vegan cheese and bitter cream; and Sushi Confidential will likely be providing veggie rolls, teriyaki veggie bowls and fried tofu for at the least Tuesday night time. Even the tender serve ice cream at Sugar + Ice will likely be made out of oat milk.
And, the suites will get in on the motion, too, by serving a non-meat menu with vegan hen tenders, Unattainable sliders and a crudite with hummus provided together with vegan variations of ranch dip, aioli and ketchup.
SAP Heart commonly has some vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices, however that is believed to be the primary time the sector has modified its complete menu for an artist. (The willingness to do that may even be a promoting level for SAP Heart ought to Paul McCartney, who’s a vegetarian, determine to deliver his “Got Back” tour to the Bay Space subsequent 12 months.)
What when you’re not a vegetarian? Properly, you might give it a attempt for the night time or at the least contemplate your self forewarned and make plans to eat earlier than the present.
As a part of the push, Eilish additionally has partnered with Google Maps to advocate vegetarian and vegan eating places within the cities on her tour. For San Jose, her picks are Vegetarian Home (520 E. Santa Clara St.), Good Karma Tremendous Ales (37 S. First St.), Veggie Grill at Santana Row and Advantage Vegan Restaurant (548 Lawrence Expy. in Sunnyvale).
I’ll add to the checklist Tofoo Com Chay, an awesome Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant at 388 E. Santa Clara St., and Vegan Bistro and Donuts, which additionally homes Aina’s Vegan Banh Mi, on tenth and Santa Clara Streets (although it’s commonly closed Monday by Wednesday). Pizza My Coronary heart at 117 E. San Carlos St. additionally affords a lot of vegan and vegetarian specialty pizzas together with a vegan model of its garlic-filled Large Sur pizza.
If concertgoers wish to make their journey much more sustainable, they need to do not forget that each VTA and Caltrain are good, climate-friendlier methods to get to SAP Heart.
ON THE RIGHT TRACK: With reference to Caltrain, state Sen. Dave Cortese can’t consider the transit company has agreed to switch its complete retired fleet — 90 gallery automobiles and 19 diesel locomotives — to Lima, Peru after lastly getting its complete fleet electrified this fall.
“This is no way to run a railroad by taking the diesel off California’s carbon footprint then putting it right back on in Peru. Are we not all fighting to decarbonize the same air?” Cortese, who chairs the state Senate Transportation committee, stated in a launch. He launched a invoice Monday that states the intent of the Legislature to limit the resale of decommissioned diesel trains and rolling inventory for continued use.
I nonetheless like the concept of planting a locomotive and gallery automotive on everlasting show at San Jose’s Diridon Station as a part of a transit museum.
NINETEEN TIMES TWO FOR THE HOLIDAYS: San Jose musician Gus Kambeitz is being a tuneful Santa Claus this season, along with his jazzy Nineteen Large Band performing profit concert events for 2 downtown theater corporations. On Dec. 10, Nineteen will present the tunes at Metropolis Lights Theatre Firm for seven actors who’ve carried out in “The Rocky Horror Show,” “Kinky Boots” and different Metropolis Lights musicals. Go to www.cltc.org for tickets.
Then, every week in a while Dec. 17, Nineteen will likely be at San Jose Stage Firm for its “Sounds of the Season Holiday Bash,” performing jazzy variations of vacation favorites together with some acquainted San Jose Stage voices: Adrienne Herro, Allison F. Wealthy, Will Springhorn Jr. and Jonathan Rhys Williams. Tickets can be found at www.thestage.org/tickets.
And if that’s not sufficient, vocalist Ren Geisick has two probabilities to catch her tenth annual “Winter Wonderland” present at Metropolis Lights this month, bringing a mixture of basic vacation tunes and originals on Dec. 8 and 15.
MUSICAL TRAFFIC JAM: After the 49ers final couple of video games, you may be searching for a much less traumatic strategy to spend your Sunday afternoon than seeing if they’ll beat the Chicago Bears. If that’s the case, there’s a trio of musical choices on Dec. 8 — however they’re all at 3 p.m. at totally different South Bay venues.
The San Jose Metropolitan Band will likely be taking part in its “Holiday Spectacular” live performance on the Hammer Theatre, the San Jose Wind Symphony has “Hollywood Holidays” on the McAfee Performing Arts Heart in Saratoga, and the First Congregational Church of San Jose, at 1980 Hamilton Ave., is welcoming chamber orchestra Harmonia California for its Live shows on the Nook sequence (which is able to embrace the world premiere of Bay Space composer Alan Hebert’s “The Orchestra and the Orchard.”) Take your decide.
For those who don’t get to the First Congregational Church, although, you’ll be able to at all times cease by Dec. 13 when it has its vacation program, “Carols on the Corner,” with the church’s Bell Choir, Chancel Choir and Household Band joined by visitor musicians. Donations of non-perishable meals gadgets will profit the Campbell United Church of Christ Meals Pantry.
