Want to eat like Carrie Underwood? This Harrisburg restaurant provided her dinner after her concert

Carrie Underwood performs at the Giant Center

Carrie Underwood performs on "The Cry Pretty Tour 360" at the Giant Center, Hershey on Thursday, June 13, 2019. Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLiveVicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive

Carrie Underwood’s current tour, the Cry Pretty Tour 360, doesn’t leave her a lot of time to see the sights in the cities she’s visiting.

The country singer’s first tour in three years will see her performing in Cincinnati and Indianapolis this weekend before moving on to St. Louis, Milwaukee and Minneapolis next week.

But everybody has to eat, right? Even a busy pop-country star. And judging by her stunning performance at the Giant Center Thursday night (which you can read more about by clicking here), she very likely worked up an appetite.

Instead of taking the tour bus through a McDonalds drive-through, though, Underwood’s team did find a bit of local flavor in their post-show dining choice: according their social media posts, Harrisburg’s The Vegetable Hunter provided them with their meal following the concert.

Check out the post below:

“[Carrie Underwood’s team] ordered to go,” said Kristin Messner-Baker, owner of The Vegetable Hunter. “Last night they called in, and our employee realized it was a really big order. She asked who it was for, and they said Carrie Underwood and her crew.”

Preparing a dinner order for a celebrity may seem pretty exciting, but it’s starting to become relatively common at The Vegetable Hunter. The restaurant has prepared orders for the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Smokey Robinson, Steve-O, Def Leppard and, just last week, the band Men Without Hats when they performed at Harrisburg’s Club XL.

“This has happened to us several times now," Messner-Baker said. "[Musicians] play at Hershey Stadium and they’re looking for vegan food, and we’re the only thing in the area.”

Underwood told Self magazine back in 2017 that she is a vegetarian hoping to go fully vegan, but that was a difficult goal while on tour. Fortunately, The Vegetable Hunter has plenty of both vegetarian and vegan options - and Messner-Baker said that the menu will be fully vegan by the end of the year.

The owner isn’t quite sure how bands keep finding their location: it may be as simple as a Google search for “vegetarian restaurant.”

“[For a strictly vegan/vegetarian menu,] we’re the only one [in the area]," Messner-Baker said. “I think the next closest one is in Lancaster. I wonder that myself if they keep some our menus [at the Giant Center].”

But whatever the reason, Messner-Baker is just happy that people are enjoying their food - apparently, according to one customer, actor Jessie Eisenberg recommended the restaurant to him when they met at a Philadelphia comic book convention and found out the man was from Harrisburg.

“It’s amazing. It’s just so exciting,” she said. “We work really hard, and to have people really appreciate what we do is just the ultimate form of a compliment. We feel really blessed to have people enjoy what we do.”

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