Millenium Restaurant

San Francisco's Millennium Restaurant is well known for being one of the best high-end vegetarian restaurants in the country. Their philosophy on food is presented front and center, both in house and on their website:

Millennium Restaurant is dedicated to supporting the essential earthly concepts of organic food production, small farms, sustainable agriculture, recycling and composting. We cook with fresh produce delivered every day, and choose organic whenever possible. We believe that a gourmet dining experience can be created out of vegetarian, healthy, and environmentally friendly foods. We are proud to state that our restaurant is completely free of genetically modified foods.

I had the pleasure of dining at Millennium recently and although I knew it would be good based on the high marks from my SF friends, I must admit...I was blown away. I had the wilted spinach salad followed by a fantastic mushroom gnocchi. I wish I were a food reviewer because I could write pages on the dishes I had, the incredible service, the perfectly matched wines, and the fantastic fine dining experience offered by Millennium. I hope to go back soon and often...or at least try recreate the wilted spinach salad on my own.

Good eats

Been to a couple great little restaurants lately. Bleu Bistro on Capitol Hill's Broadway here in Seattle. They have organic stuff mixed in throughout the menu and several organic beers. My BLT (with fake bacon) was mighty tasty and it's actually 2, count 'em TWO, full sandwiches. My buddy's mac and cheese was out of this world, the abundant garlic made it even better than out of this world. The design of the place is really hipster too with all sorts of seating areas stuffed in under stairways and tight little corners, it's quite a maze in side.

Tonight I dined with my friend Lisa from Grist Magazine at Cyber Dogs, specializing in vegan hot dogs accessorized with all sorts of tasty toppings. We had the "El Bandito" or "Intense Mexican Dog" as they describe it. It was a full entree and really tasty with chili, avocados, cheese and salsa. ¡Ay Toro!

Oh, and I forgot to mention that while in San Francisco last week I took my friend Kim's suggestion (who works at New Leaf Paper) and dined at a fab vegetarian/organic restaurant called Millennium. OH MY GOD! I had the warm spinach salad (with the Asian pear walnuts). The warm salad with the smoked tofu was such an amazing taste sensation. The only thin I can compare it to [sorry vegans out there] is unagi (eel) sushi...both pure heaven in my book. The service was incredible as well.