Restaurants doing right

Over the weekend I've had plenty of time to relax, which for me means finding new food blogs and researching new recipes. Through my wanderings, I have discovered several great resources and restaurants that provide an array of real food. These places use organic ingredients, source their food from local farms, and the menu changes based on what's in season. It makes me truly happy to see such gradual interest and development within the world of real food and I would like to heartily thank the restaurants, companies, and people involved. Eating from farm to table is not only good for the environment, but it also helps the community by supporting the local economy and developing relationships between people and farmers. As more people want to become more knowledgeable about where their food comes from, they have the power to ask the right questions and demand an improvement in our industrial food system. Vote with your dollars, and you will have a good conscious knowing that you did something good for the environment, the community and yourself.

Here are a few of the places I've discovered over the weekend.

Bi-Rite Market and Bi-Rite Creamery
Truly devoted to providing a link between customers and farmers and pushing for transparency in the food industry, this company does the community a great service all around.

http://www.biritemarket.com/who-we-are/ and http://biritecreamery.com/who-we-are

If you don't want to take the time to browse their sites, here's a short video that sums up who they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns0ekFWTvsQ&feature=youtu.be


Alon's
They strive to use natural ingredients, hormone-free meat, and source organic produce from local farmers. Everything is made from scratch.

http://www.alons.geomerx.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=storePage&customPageID=29

Here's what I had for lunch there on the 4th.

The Tuscany: Goat cheese with chives, arugula, marinated-roasted eggplant and sun-dried tomatoes on Whole Wheat.

So good! And I treated myself to some sparkling pink limonade :)