5 Awesome Restaurants to Have Lunch or even Dinner (Day 2 of 4)
1. Heartland (Minnesota): This establishment offers food that is either grown, fishes or foraged within 200 miles of the restaurant. The owner takes freshwater fish over ocean fish and use black walnut oil instead of olive oil. He also states that we may lose the very things that are wonderful around us if we don’t take care of it now. ($20-$30)
2. Prairie Grass Cafe (Illinois): This establishment is a family focused restaurant that serves everything from pizza to baby back ribs. There are six plasma screens that play prairie scenes in the dinning room, fire place and they offer the setting of a rustic yet contemporary. They utilize local and season dishes that focus on local grown essences. ($5-$29)
3. CityZen (Washington, D.C.): This establishment has a close relationship with their suppliers that offer organic ingredients such as eggs, fresh vegetables and even fresh rabbit. The chef keeps this local and fresh as well as natural and organic at every chance he gets. There is a dinning room area to this restaurant as well as a bar to order organic drinks as well. ($75-$115)
4. Lauro Kitchen (Oregon): This establishment is based in the heart of Oregon’s busiest area, Portland. And the chef tries to win over the food-obsessed area by offering light in a grey town. And the local paper has donned his restaurant, “the happiest place in Portland”. He chooses all local produce and is even a board member of the farmers’ market in the same town as well. ($15-$19)
5. The Kitchen (Colorado): This establishment is all-American in everyway. They offer dishes from locally grown farmers and they offer family-style meals that offer courses such as mint and feta with zucchini salad and are served on a 12-foot table. At the end of every shift the kitchen and other staff sits at the very table and has a family-style meal together. ($19-$27)
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Earthly Eating Recipe
Twice Baked Potatoes
Serves: 8
8 medium potatoes, baked
2 tbs. butter
1 cup sour cream
2 1/2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
Salt and pepper to taste
4 strips of bacon, cooked and diced
3 green onions, finely chopped
Slice the top if 1/3 of each potato lengthwise. Hollow the skins, leaving 1/4″ of the potato inside. In a bowl, mash together potato interior, butter, sour cream, 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, heavy cream, milk, salt and pepper. Stir in bacon and onions. Refill the skins with the mixture and top with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Happy Eating!
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