Restaurants/Cafes

| East Bay Green | Used to be, the neighborhood was, well, kinda scuzzy. A patch of northern California urban oh my in downtown Berkeley, only a between-classes stroll from the UC-Berkeley campus. Now look at it. It’s reborn as the Berkeley Arts & Cultural District. The internationally renowned performing arts complex everyone around here refers [...]

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| Dine Sustainably Con Piacere | Who doesn’t love Italian? This is the first in a series on the best Italian-style green restaurants in northern California. Todd Shoberg knows what he’s doing. For example, he knows how a peach is really supposed to taste—his hometown of Grand Haven, on the shores of Lake Michigan, is [...]

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Hottest trends for restaurants this year? Go local and sustainable, say America’s chefs. A National Restaurant Association poll finds locally sourced meat, seafood and produce top menu preferences

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| Deliciously Sustainable | Whenever possible. As in those two weasel words on a restaurant menu: we use organic, seasonal and sustainable ingredients whenever possible. They promise so much … they give a kitchen so much wiggle room. Imagine if an organic farmer said: we won’t use toxic chemicals on our crops whenever possible. Well, [...]

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Ode, a small, family-run restaurant in the picturesque coastal village of Shaldon in Devon, is the most sustainable in the U.K. So says the kingdom’s Sustainable Restaurant Association

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Escape to green Goa

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| An Eco State of Mind | If your notion is going to Goa for a short green vacation, be forewarned: it’s the Hotel California of India—you may never leave. Believe me, I know. Goa’s soft embrace almost feels a world apart from India’s numbing extremes and jarring contrasts. Think of this predominantly coastal state [...]

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| Greening the Games | I’m curious. Of the nearly one million visitors anticipated in London for the summer 2012 Olympics, how many will insist on going green? And what does the epicenter of Englishness have waiting to greet the green traveler? As luck would have it, I’m able to schedule a brief London layover [...]

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| Eat, Sleep Green |   How cool! Awaiting us is what promises to be a perfect night in Green Wine Country: a “green” meal, a “green” sleep. At Vineyards Inn, the locally acclaimed organic tapas restaurant in Kenwood, dinner timing has just been confirmed, a key to our accommodations and instructions on how to operate [...]

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| Canada’s Western Wine Country | Western Canada’s British Columbia is home to native people called the Okanagan, who lived well for eons in the beautiful valley that today bears their name by foraging berries and roots, hunting the abundant wild game that drank from the clear waters of spectacular Lake Okanagan, and fishing the [...]

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| Green Travel News | One of America’s most-visited seaside tourist attractions finally boasts a sustainable seafood restaurant. The San Francisco Seafood Watch Alliance has signed on Fog Harbor Fish House on Fisherman’s Wharf—which means the 220,000 meals it serves to visitors yearly with be prepared with only “ocean-friendly” seafood, and that customers will be [...]

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