Choose by the afternoon you want
- A seated meal with several components: King’s Café.
- Vegetables and ferments in a sandwich: Hawker, with different weekday and weekend menus.
- Caribbean food to take away: Veggie D’Light, Friday–Sunday.
Compare a main order
Prices are CAD per person for the specified order, excluding drinks, extra dishes, tax and tip. The formats and quantities differ.
| Restaurant | Posted order | Price | Day to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| King’s Café | One-person combination, choosing curry with mushrooms | 19.49 | Posted daily hours start at 11:30 a.m. |
| Hawker | Weekday AAA eggplant sandwich with house salad | 15 | Lunch Wednesday–Friday |
| Hawker | Weekend AAA eggplant sandwich with garden salad and roasted potatoes | 21 | Brunch Saturday–Sunday |
| Veggie D’Light | Small The Meal or small roti | 15 | Takeaway Friday–Sunday, noon–6 p.m. |
King’s Café: give lunch a few moving parts
192 Augusta Ave · Kensington Market
The restaurant-posted menu offers a one-person combination with a spring roll, two soy nuggets, salad bento and soup of the day. Choose the curry-with-mushrooms option for the example above. That makes King’s useful when a sandwich feels too narrow an idea for lunch: you can have several components without organising a shared order.
King’s describes itself as a vegetarian restaurant. Its menu marks exceptions containing dairy or eggs, so a vegetarian companion and a vegan companion should read those symbols differently. The combination is CAD19.49 on the linked menu; rice is not listed among its included components.
The official page posts daily 11:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. hours and a reservation phone number. Start here if sitting down matters, rather than arranging the afternoon around a takeaway destination.
Hawker: decide the day before the sandwich
291 Augusta Ave · Kensington Market
Hawker calls its cooking plant-based, and the useful lunch distinction is unusually concrete. Its AAA eggplant sandwich pairs eggplant with tomato jam, smoked poblano paste and watercress. On the weekday lunch menu, CAD15 includes house salad. On the weekend brunch menu, CAD21 includes garden salad and roasted potatoes.
This is the choice for a friend who wants vegetables presented as the point of the dish. The other sandwich uses smoked cabbage and fermented chickpea, widening the choice beyond eggplant.
Lunch runs Wednesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; brunch runs Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. The restaurant specifies last seating one hour before closing and kitchen service ending half an hour before closing. Arriving at the published closing time is not a lunch plan.
Veggie D’Light: choose the food, then the destination
160 Baldwin St · Kensington Market
Veggie D’Light’s official takeaway menu gives you two ways into its vegan Caribbean cooking. The Meal combines curry chickpeas, jerk seitan and moringa loaf over brown basmati rice with flax and quinoa, topped with vegetables. The roti brings those three main fillings into a whole-wheat dhalpuri shell.
Both are CAD15 small or CAD19 large. Moving from the posted small size to large adds CAD4. Pick the format you want first: a rice-based meal or a filled roti.
This is a takeaway recommendation: the restaurant publishes Friday–Sunday noon–6 p.m. takeaway hours and asks customers to call to order. Agree where you will eat before collecting lunch. Choose it when the Caribbean menu appeals and carrying the meal fits the afternoon.
Settle one useful detail before you meet
For a Friday lunch, all three published schedules overlap from noon. Saturday changes the calculation: Hawker serves its brunch menu, while Veggie D’Light remains takeaway. For Monday or Tuesday, King’s is the option on this shortlist with published daytime service.
If the companion is vegan, check the relevant menu markings rather than treating vegetarian as a synonym. If allergies are part of the plan, discuss them directly with the restaurant.
Choose King’s for the combination, Hawker for the plant-based sandwich and its included sides, or Veggie D’Light for Caribbean takeaway. Each gives your friend an actual choice of lunch, rather than a side dish promoted to the job.
Research note: We checked official restaurant pages and their posted menus on 13 October 2026. These are research-based recommendations; no meals were sampled.