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Earth Day Eats, Seattle Style

Special menus celebrating our planet this Friday, April 22.

Posted by: Tiffany Ran on Apr 18, 2011 at 02:51PM 2 Comments

Seattle restaurants plate eco-friendly noshes for Earth Day.

Is there a more fitting spot to toast the globe and all its goodness than Pike Place Market? Probably not. As part of worldwide celebration Picnic for the Planet, eco peeps will congregate between Stewart and Virginia streets from 11:30-1:30, and nearby eateries DeLaurenti, Matt’s in the Market, Michou, Steelhead Diner, Uli’s Famous Sausage, and Virginia Inn are offering special pre-order boxed lunches for the occasion. The meal comes with a main (Matt’s in the Market’s halibut salad, Virginia Inn muffaletta, German brat from Uli’s), plus drinks, chips, salad, and/or dessert. Individual box lunches are $5.50–$16/person. Place orders by April 20.

Sazerac will feature celebratory happy hour small plates like organic English pea risotto, potato and goat cheese wood fire pizza, and fennel pork sausage and pickled organic green garlic. Individual items $5–$9.50/person.

Urbane ’s Earth Day feasts touts ingredients sourced within 100 miles of Seattle and cocktails boasting spirits from local distilleries. Lamb meatballs with Holmquist hazelnuts, rosemary smoked mussels with foraged mushroom duxelle, or honey lavender snow cones showcase regional bounty. Price is $17/person. Call for reservations.

The organic bill at Tulio boasts two fish dishes: an Alaskan halibut with romenesco and ahi tuna with charred radicchio and chianti chickpeas. Pair the seafood with one of several eco-friendly wines or starters. Individual items $8–$28/person. Call for reservations.

Wallingford Community Kitchen at the Senior Center puts a conscientious spin on a global menu: Jewish matzo ball soup gets the vegetarian treatment and turkey is subbed for lamb in a Greek pastitsio. Also included are Vietnamese spring rolls and African bean and sweet potato soup. Tickets are $10 in advance, $25 at the door. Purchase tickets to the Wallingford Community Kitchen event here.

Holler in the comments box if you’ve heard of more happenings.

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Earth Day Dinner Picks

Five last-minute choices for celebrating your favorite planet.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Apr 22, 2010 at 02:25PM 0 Comments

Mac and yease at Plum Bistro

You have until 3:30pm to get to lunch-only Nettletown for an Earth Day lunch served up by forager extraordinaire Christina Choi. If you can’t swing that, make a reservation for dinner tonight at any of the five eco-friendly picks.

I checked for you, there are still availabilities at all of them.

1. Overfishing. That’s some scary stuff. Good thing you live in Seattle, home to Mashiko, the third sushi bar in the country to go 100 percent sustainable.

2. Phinney Ridge stalwart Stumbling Goat may have changed owners in 2009, but it remains a restaurant committed to sourcing proteins and veg from local farms. If it is sustainable meat treats you’re after, this is your spot. And you can wash down all that grass-fed goodness with a biodynamic NW wine.

3. Eat lower down the food chain but higher up the tasty ladder at Seattle’s number one destination for classy hippies: Cafe Flora. Make sure to order the pate platter appetizer, whose centerpiece is a beguiling lentil-pecan pate.

4. If you’re a vegetarian anyway, you might want to ratchet things up a little for the occasion. Plum Bistro on Capitol Hill is the 100-percent organic vegan eatery where Tobey Maguire gets his tempeh on when he’s in town. I hear great things about the mac and yease (really), but I’m partial to the quinua sliders. Trust me, it’s all better than it sounds.

5. Every day is pretty much Earth Day at Seth Caswell’s Emmer and Rye. Emmer’s motto is “seasonally inspired, locally derived,” for crying out loud, and Caswell is not joking around. The Chef’s Collaborative president can be counted on to use the best ingredients plucked by local foragers and raised on farms nearby. As I write this, there are currently three reservations available at E and R tonight—you’ll be eating at 4:30, 9, or 9:30pm. The choice is yours.

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Tags: Special Dinners, Vegetarian/Vegan Whatnot, Earth Day, Sushi