Cafe Oasis

For a restaurant in a hospital, there is surprisingly a lot of good fare to be enjoyed. The Trotteria has excellent Pasta and Pizza ready to go. There is almost always an excellent showing of soups at the front and breakfast is an awesome affair.
Muffins, coffee and even perennial favorites like the good ol bacon and eggs are on order with hashbrown cubes ready to go! They even offer a delicious breakfast burrito with the offering of salsa!
The lunches aren’t too bad with your normal sandwiches and their offerings of BLTs and such.
Good variety of juices, water and pop and decent pricing for quality food makes this a true Oasis in the middle of the emotional desert a hospital can leave you in.
Downside is they aren’t available 24hrs so if you arrive too late, you will stare salivating rather then savoring.
Definitely a stop worth making, even if you don’t have to go to the hospital for anything else.

This is the cafeteria of St. Boniface General Hospital. It’s located in the Atrium at the Main Floor entrance on Tache Avenue. There’s also a Tim Hortons across from Café Oasis in the Atrium as well. From what we all know and have heard, hospital food is pretty bland and unappetizing. And I don’t recall hospital cafeteria food being that great either. BUT, I have to say that Café Oasis in St. B is pretty damn good. The cafeteria offers up tons of options ranging from create your own salads or wraps, lots of soup selections, «comfort foods», stir fries, grilled sandwiches, pizza from Pizza Pizza and pre-​packaged sandwiches/​veggies/​fruit/​sushi. They also offer up sodium reduced options too. They also provide frequent buyers card (get them at the till) like buy 9 salads and get the 10^th one free. Prices are pretty average for a cafeteria with some items on the pricey end. But if you’re at St. B hospital it’s either this cafeteria or Tim Hortons.
If you’re going to get a salad, skip the pre-​packaged ones as a small portion of caesar salad cost just under $ 6 after tax. Whereas, if you go to the «wild greens» — the make your own salad area, you can make a huge salad with a ton of options for $ 8.38 or $ 9.95 with chicken added. You can select romaine, mixed green or spinach as your base and add chicken if you want. Then there’s mushrooms, cucumbers, celery, red/​green peppers, pineapple, mandarins, onions, carrots, chick peas, kidney beans etc, then you get to add feta or shredded marble cheese and a choice of 7 dressings. And to top it off you can add sliced almonds, croutons, fried noodles and cranberries. The person behind the counter mixes up your salad for you and you get this perfectly dressed salad. Very delicious, healthy and super filling! The food here is way better than many of the food options near the hospital.
«Culinary Table» offers up yummy hot entrée dishes for $ 8.95. I had a great Moroccan Spiced Chicken served with couscous and a cucumber & tomato salad. Juicy dark chicken meat with slightly overcooked couscous but still good and a great salad.
«Coyote Jack’s Grill» charges something like over $ 5 after tax fro a gourmet grilled cheese — mine was with bacon. It wasn’t worth it as it was way too greasy and they slathered garlic herb butter on the outside which kind of overpowered the cheese and bacon inside. I wouldn’t get the grilled sandwich again.
So most of the items here are pretty good and at a decent price but things like the grilled cheese or the small prepacked salads are not worth the price. There’s a lot of seating in the Atrium with lots of bright light and you get to see the hustle and bustle of the hospital. And you can grab a Timmie’s afterwards, which is open daily till 1130 pm.