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Earth Day Dinner Picks

Five last-minute choices for celebrating your favorite planet.

By Jessica Voelker April 22, 2010

Plum mac 'n' yease is coming soon to a corner near you.

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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