YYC - restaurants with a focus on local producers

[CookieGal]

Hey fellow hounds...

I am working on a festival celebrating local and sustainable foods which will be part of Calgary's Earth Day celebrations. (more on that later...) I have put together a list of restaurants and catering companies who focus on supporting local producers + sustainable foods. But I would really value everyone's input, as I don't want to over look any businesses who are striving to do the above.

Thanks!

[CookieGal]

Ok Folks..

List in Progress:

Restaurants

Rouge
the Ranch
Coup
Cilantro
Farm
River Café
The Rimrock
Route 40 Soup Company
Saskatoon Berry Farm
Reader Rock Garden
Lady Bug Café
The District
Velvet
Open Range
Catch

Catering / Take Out

Fresh Kitchen
Farm to Fork
Red Tree Kitchen
Forage
Infuse
Phil & Sebastians
CRMR at home
Janice Beaton Cheese

What am I missing?
:)

[foodkarma]

Dairy Lane

Also I am pretty sure Blink and Divino are supporters of local products.

[CookieGal]

CHEERS!

[hsk]

Charcut - it just opened, but everything they serve is local.

[John Manzo]

Farm and River Cafe for sure.

[foodkarma]

the Coup and Dairy Lane are the first I think of.

[aktivistin]

You've probably already seen/contacted Slow Food Calgary (or maybe you are with Slow Food Calgary!), but just in case, here's a link: http://slowfoodcalgary.ca

[CookieGal]

Certainly but the list is of producers... which I love and reference often, but not of the restaurants which promote their products. What I am doing now is contacting the producers them selves, and asking them who their most loyal restaurant clients are.

[irishgirl]

Shef's Fiery Kitchen at the Calgary Farmers' Market (who also do catering I believe) often have local producers referenced on their menu.

[aktivistin]

Ah, of course. That's a clever way to find the restaurants and caterers... I'm not sure I would have thought of that!

Three local chefs mentioned in this article talking about Anthony Bourdain and the "localvore" movement, including Chef Overland of The Belvedere: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note...

[nonlinear]

why don't you post the list you have so far?

[maplesugar]

Forage/Infuse Catering, River Cafe and Rouge immediately come to mind...but I'm not really up on caterers - I'm sure there are places I'm missing.