TOP SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANTS
It was our ambition to create a CCR list of the top 50 sustainable restaurants in the U.S. who were putting “climate change on the menu.” We have not yet built our own but we have discovered a pair of San Franciscan restauranteurs, Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, who had a similar ambition and were deep into fulfilling it. Already in 2017, their non-profit organization, Zero Foodprint posted a list of restaurants who had committed to funding climate friendly farming practices (regenerative practices like paying for cover crop seeds, compost, tree-planting, fencing for grazing management, etc).
It was part of a new public-private initiative supporting carbon farming practices called Restore California which directly increase soil health and the supply of great ingredients.
To date, around 30 restaurants have achieved carbon-neutral status under the program; with dozens more on their way to earning the stamp. Those which have achieved in the U.S. are listed below.
Colorado
Annette
Kentucky
Bouquet
New York
Mission Chinese Food (NYC)
Mission Chinese Food (Brooklyn)
Purslane
Rucola
Oregon
Coquine
Farm Spirit
Texas
Barley Swine
Emmer & Rye
Washington DC
Bresca