Take A Seat YEG

01/10/2025

📍 Nosh Cafe (10235 124 St)

🪑 SEATING:
Seats are 20″ width and 18″ depth with a tall back and no armrests. They are sturdy wood and standard height (not raised).
Seats and tables are all mobile (but heavy)
Four tables have a booth bench on one side of them which is 20″ depth with high backs and no sides
There are two full booths (tables mobile) with a 20″ depth bench and high backs

🚪ENTRANCE:
Main door is up a set of five concrete stairs
There is ramp access to the main building (124 Place), through which the restaurant can be accessed from the side door, but it was locked at the time we tried it outside of business hours (weekend)

🚾 BATHROOMS:
Two gendered bathrooms, both have two stalls, one of which is accessible
Shared bathroom use with the rest of the building, so the bathrooms require a key and are through a door and hallway in the back wall of the restaurant. No stairs or blockages

➕ EXTRAS:
Lots of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options
Takeout ordering counter is very high (bar height)
Take a Seat YEG is proudly community-generated. You can contribute to our online database or request a venue to be added to our website by visiting buff.ly/3YSZVmF

12/12/2024

📍 The Grindstone Comedy Theatre & Bistro (10019 81 Ave NW)


🪑 SEATING:
Theatre: various seating
Main/floor seating chairs range from 16″-17″ width and 16″-17″ depth. Chairs are semi-sturdy, made of thick plastic, with no armrests
Long wooden benches along one side wall and the back wall are 17″ depth and are slightly raised (require a bit of a step up)
4-5 circular stools along one wall as extra seating are 14″x14″
Theatre is approximately 80 person capacity, but above 60-ish people it is standing-room-only.
Bar / indoor space: raised stools
stools: 16″ width and 15″ depth with a back and no armrests
All stools and tables are raised height
Patio / outdoor space: picnic tables (x5)
Picnic table bench: 15″ depth
Picnic benches are attached to table with bars (must be stepped over to get onto bench)

🚪ENTRANCE:
Main entrance is a manual door (no automatic button/sensor)
Main entrance, and door to the theatre both have a very slight angle/ramp but no steps. Opening to the patio has no stairs or ramp
Sidewalk in front of the building have ramps on either end of the block

🚾 BATHROOMS:
One (gender-neutral) bathroom with five stalls, one of which is marked accessible.
Bathroom has no main door (open doorway), and stalls have privacy doors (top-to-bottom doors that are light to push open)

➕ EXTRAS:
Lighting in theatre is fairly dim when entering and exiting for a show, and usually darkened (stage spotlight) during the show
Progress pride flag up in several places
Theatre has a raised stage with stairs access on both sides from backstage, no ramp
ATM available on-site


Take a Seat YEG is proudly community-generated. You can contribute to our online database or request a venue to be added to our website by visiting buff.ly/3YSZVmF

12/05/2024

📍 Bánh Mì Day (11765 Jasper Ave)

🪑 SEATING:
This location is not an eat-in/sit-down restaurant but has six padded bar-height stools to sit and wait for your food

🚪ENTRANCE:
3 concrete steps out front to get up to the door level, or a low-incline ramp to the right
Little-to-no bump at the threshold of the doorway/doorsill
Front door is manually operated (no automatic button or sensor)

🚾 BATHROOMS:
No public bathrooms available – this is not a sit-down/eat-in location

➕ EXTRAS:
Family-run "Mom & Pop Shop" staff are friendly and helpful!
Menu has lots of vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and other allergen foods, and the staff are very mindful of cross-contamination when preparing allergen foods

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Take a Seat YEG is proudly community-generated. You can contribute to our online database or request a venue to be added to our website by visiting buff.ly/3YSZVmF

10/31/2024

The Monobloc chair: terrorizing fat bodies since 1972.

🎃 Happy Halloween from Take a Seat YEG!

10/30/2024

📍 Roam Cafe (10130 112 St NW)

🪑 SEATING:

Chairs: 17.5″ width and depth, with angled side bars or rounded/protruding backrests
Stools: 16.5″ width and depth, with angled side bars
Patio picnic tables: benches are 15″ depth and are mobile/have no connecting bars to step over
Accent seating
Yellow wing-back chairs (x2): 21″ width and 20″ depth with high back and low armrests
Black lounge chairs (x2): 22″ seat width and depth (20″ between armrests)
Grey couches (x2): 18″ depth, with armrests
Blue bench: 17.5″ depth, no armrests

🚪ENTRANCE:

Main entrance is through building (One Twelve Campus) main doors with automatic push-button opener. Cafe door is to the right of the lobby and is always propped open
Secondary door is through the patio fence, has three steps to enter and a manual door

🚾 BATHROOMS:

Two gendered bathrooms, both have two stalls, one of which is accessible
Bathroom access is through the lobby of the building (One Twelve Campus) and down a few hallways; no stairs or blockages, but bathroom doors are manual and quite heavy

➕ EXTRAS:

Lots of vegan (plant-based) milk options
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Take a Seat YEG is proudly community-generated. You can contribute to our online database or request a venue to be added to our website by visiting buff.ly/3YSZVmF

10/21/2024

We’re so excited to announce the launch of our website!

Find all of our accessibility information and access our searchable database on our new website. Our website is a new development, so please feel free to provide feedback on whether we can make the experience more user-friendly or accessible to you. Our database is community-generated and community-funded – Take a Seat YEG is by us, for us.

You can use our website to:
📌 Submit information to be added to our database
📌 Request a venue to be added to our database
📌 Share your feedback

Visit us at www.takeaseatyeg.ca

Take A Seat YEG is a community database of accessibility info about venues and businesses in YEG for the comfort of fat and disabled bodies.