Grass Fed Beef; Free Range Chickens; Local Veggies

[pshper]

I am looking for restaurants in all price ranges that make it a point to use local ingredients. I am wondering if there are any ethnic restaurants in this category.

[williej]

Joe Beef on Notre Dame near Atwater has a back garden and uses a high percentage of their own vegetables and herbs during the growing season.

[BLM]

Fermes St-Vincent butcher shop at Jean-Talon & Atwater Markets is grass fed beef. It's expensive.

[carswell]

Are you sure about FSV's beef being grass fed? They advertise it as being organic but, as far as I know, have never mentioned anything about grass. And the one time I asked, quite a while back, the clerk said it wasn't purely grass fed.

Also, the original poster is asking about restaurants, not stores.

[BLM]

I thought they told me it was grass-fed(I've eaten their beef 2-3 times). Several Montreal restaurants use their beef(I've got to doublecheck which ones).

[thelonious777]

My understanding is that it is grain fed. Maybe its grass finished. It doesn't taste like grass fed to me.

[wattacetti]

Isn't it generally grass-fed then grain-finished? The difficult cow to obtain is one that ate grass all the way to market ("pasture" beef).

[thelonious777]

You are correct sir. Although I understand there is a practice in the U.S. (where grass-fed commands premium prices) of raising cattle on grain and then giving them some short period of grass feed in order to market the meat as grass-fed. I'm surprised grass-fed beef is so hard to find here when it is everywhere in the U.S. Only a matter of time.

[SnackHappy]

Au Cinquieme Péché is very much focused on local and sustainable produce and it's a great restaurant.

Here is a link to moh's report from earlier this year: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/612814

[wattacetti]

Les Trois Petits Bouchons also chats up local, seasonal, artisanal and terroir. Not sure about the definition you're using for "ethinic", but I highly doubt that something a Chinese, Lebanese, Greek, Japanese, Moroccan etc restaurant can use solely local ingredients.

Les Fermes St-Vincent does not carry grass-fed beef. I ask regularly (at Atwater location) and get the same reply.