BEST USA RESTAURANTS COMMITTED TO LOCAL FARMS AND FARMERS' MARKETS

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Maurice Graham HenryBest farm to table restaurants in the United States

The American Farm to Table Restaurant Guide lists the very best restaurants in the United States that share an ongoing commitment to using primarily naturally-raised and organic ingredients sourced directly from local farms and farmers' markets. However, our main criteria for selection is not a strict adherence to some particular level of locavore/sustainable agriculture purity. Our most important priority when selecting restaurants is excellence: excellence in the cooking and in the service. We are convinced that our strong farm-to-table focus, while continuing to adhere to the preeminence of taste and service, is what sets this list apart from the numerous other "best farm-to-table" lists currently out there.

 

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Maurice Graham Henry
January 23, 2010


Read and Watch:

Chef Dan Barber, when describing what is grown at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in the winter months, speaks frankly about the need for restaurants like Blue Hill - ones that appeal to the most sophisticated and demanding clientele - to avoid rigid extremes in locality and sustainability in their food supplies. As Dan explains, it's a question of percentages.

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Free Range Foie Gras?

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The Real Luau

Everyone has seen a luau in a movie or read about one in a Hawaiian tourist brochure.  But what makes a REAL luau?  Food lover David Katz provides the fascinating details.


 

  

Exceptional Farm to Table Restaurants
Reviews and contact information for a select number of the best USA restaurants featuring farm to table ingredients.

The Wandering Epicures' December 2009 dinner at Telepan in New York

"Bill Telepan knows how to buy top quality ingredients and to bring out their flavors with well-executed classic combinations."

 

The Wandering Epicures enjoy a birthday celebration at Gramercy Tavern in New York City

"Gramercy Tavern is voted the most popular restaurant in New York in the 2010 Zagat, up from second place the two previous years. It obviously intends to keep this rating by offering carefully-prepared upscale comfort food such as we had in our meal. Like most tables, ours had a variety of food interests. All of our diners were satisfied by the classic combinations and some were enthusiastic."

 

The Inn at Little Washington : the Flavor Magazine article by noted cookbook author Mollie Cox Bryan

"At The Inn at Little Washington, Chef Patrick O'Connell's locally inspired elegant cuisine may attract visitors from around the world but it is firmly rooted by countless Virginia farmers and producers."

 

Food Snob reviews Manresa restaurant in Los Gatos California

"The cooking of David Kinch, precise and skilled, was informed by the chef’s comprehensive culinary experiences and preferences. It was a gastronomic journey that revealed where Kinch has been and what he has liked."

 

Still River Café In Eastford Connecticut is reviewed by Jonathan Braverman

"The cooking is inventive, but each dish is sufficiently tethered to the familiar so that the diner doesn’t feel adrift in a sea of uncertainty. It’s creative—but not confusing. Sometimes you’ll find yourself wondering: now why hasn’t anyone else thought of that? And because everything that Still River offers sounds fantastic, you may experience menu paralysis. We certainly did."

 

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Restaurants recently added:

     

2nd Street Bistro

Livingston, Montana
Chef: Brian Menges

  

La Casita Mexicana

Bell, California
Chefs: Jaime Martin Del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu

 

Tilth Restaurant

Seattle, Washington
Chef: Maria Hines

 

The Red Lion Inn

Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Chef: Brian J. Alberg

 

Bolete Restaurant and Inn

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lee Chizmar & Erin Shea

 

The Corson Building

Seattle, Washington
Chef: Matt Dillon

 

Farmhouse Inn and Restaurant

Forestville, California
Chef: Steve Litke

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