restaurants
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Meet the rapper-turned-restaurateur bringing beats (but not meats) to the East Bay
Toriano Gordon has found runaway success with Vegan Mob, his meatless take on barbecue.
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This restaurant fines customers who waste food
It’s harsh, but this policy is both eco-friendly and humanitarian.
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Takeout restaurant delivers dirty dishes so you can pretend you cooked
If you provided food for your dinner party by slaving over a hot phone all day, nobody need ever know — as long as you’re in the U.K., and within delivery range of Housebites. The company charges the equivalent of about 8 bucks to deliver dirty dishes and cooking utensils along with your food, so […]
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Is your favorite restaurant faking organic? There’s only one way to know for sure
How do you know when to trust menus and marketing efforts that promise sustainable fare? One place to start is a certified organic restaurant.
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Can healthy food come from unhealthy workers?
From cramped, unclean housing to a lack of paid sick days, more and more evidence is linking poor treatment of workers in the food chain to unsafe food.
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Team Tupperware: Doing away with disposables for good — and loving it
Pig out: This week, the Greenie Pig opts out of disposable junk.Somewhere on the California coast, between redwood territory and the Bay Area, lies the world’s most self-righteous coffee shop. My boyfriend, Ted, and I stopped there two summers ago for some much-needed caffeine. But as we queued up to order, handwritten signs confronted us […]
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Principled plate: Diners’ Guide helps make eating out ethical
Photo: Bravo123Restaurants know their customers worry over the source of an heirloom tomato, or the care with which their pork was raised and handled. But when it comes to the treatment of the person who prepared it, few establishments make it a point to be transparent. Now, there’s a guide for that. For the first […]
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A snake in the Olive Garden
Olive Garden and Red Lobster's parent company, The Darden Group, has pledged publicly to make their food healthier. But will it make any real difference?
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Tell Grist: What’s your favorite green hot spot in Portland?
You know you love it.Photo: megaulYo Portlandia! We’re compiling a guide to the perfect green Portland weekend and we need your help! So you have an out-of-town visitor — where do you take ’em for great local food or beer? What’s the can’t-miss farmers market, bike shop, or organic cupcakery — or is the octopus […]