Nine Twin Cities restaurants have concocted special dishes to highlight how climate and food systems are intertwined, while showcasing a little culinary creativity.
The initiative from Eat for Impact, a nonprofit from Planted Society, encourages restaurants to offer easier access to “planet-friendly foods” and to engage diners in how their part in the food system impacts the environment in concrete ways.
It’ll also join the ranks of efforts to let chefs show how plant-based dishes don’t have to embody the tired, flavorless stereotype with which they’re often saddled.
Each participating restaurant has put at least one “pro-climate,” plant-based dish on the menu for March as part of the Eat for Impact project. In the Twin Cities, those restaurants include Namaste Cafe, Salt & Flour, Food on the Fly, both Hamburguesas El Gordo locations, three Sawatdee Thai outposts, and the Hope Breakfast Bar at 350 N 5th St. in Minneapolis…