Austin, TX (Sustainable Asian Lunch & Organic Tea)

Jade is part tea house and part Asian lucheonette, with certain offerings marrying the two sensibilities. (Vegan Green Tea Scrambled Tofu, anyone?)

Meals focus on South Asian-style dishes: a vegetarian organic pho with seasonal organic vegetables and organic rice noodles…Indonesian Stir-Fried Peanut Noodles…Thai Coconut Curry. (Try it with pastured bison.) Most of the ingredients are grown and/or raised in and around Austin.

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Local Organic Chicago Restaurant

Organic olive oil from Pacific Sun. Pastured, organic, acorn-and-corn-fed Berkshire and Chester White pork from Becker Lane in Dyersville, Ill. Pristine, sustainable fish and oysters. Clean chicken from Slagel Family Farm. Veal for sweetbreads from Strauss Veal Farm. Lamb from Crawford Farm in Wisconsin. Seasonal, organic local veg from farms such as Kinnikinnick Farm, Green Acres Farm, Nichols Farm and Werp Farm.

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Washington, D.C. — Grass-fed, Healthy and Delicious

Healthy Restaurant Type: Come-to-Jesus brasserie fare.  If you’re not a fan of farm-to-table food before eating here, this will convert you. Bite-Sized Take: Read below for affordable ways to indulge.

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Healthy Organic NYC restaurant – Great Burgers

You’re in NYC. You want a quality meal — a gorgeous pasta, some grilled fish with beautiful vegtables, some roasted chicken or even a gourmet burger. You want meat that hasn’t been irradiated. You want farmer’s market vegetables. You want organics. You want nothing — nothing — that indicates “health food.” You just want a great meal, and you don’t want to pay outrageous NYC prices for it.

You want Hundred Acres.

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Bar Harbor, ME (Healthy Excellent Soups)

The Ingredients:

Stick with the lobster, clams and other seafood, which are all super-fresh and local.

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Atlanta, GA (Healthy Excellent Burgers)

This place spells comfort, with an emphasis on the Southern repertoire and on “house-made, house-cured and house-preserved items, made with seasonal ingredients.” The biggest draw here are probably the burgers.

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Los Angeles, CA (Healthy Culver City Gem)

Grass-fed, local organic beef from Estancia Beef. Organic dairy. Organic/fair trade coffee and tea. Organic flour, sugar, chocolate and soymilk. Some pastries are dairy-free, vegan and made with spelt. Organic beef from Niman Ranch. Lots and lots of local, organic produce from producers such as Coleman Farms, Weiser Family Farms, Mud Creek Ranch, Burkart Farms, Country Fresh Herbs, Finley Farms, Flora Bella Farm, Garcia Organic Farm, McGrath Family Farm, Rutiz Farms, Windrose Farm, & Life’s-A-Choke.

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Organic Philadelphia Restaurant

Herbs, peppers, tomatoes and other produce all hail from the restaurant’s rooftop garden. Pocono River trout. Grass-fed, regional beef. Local, organic, pastured chicken. Produce is nearly always local and organic. American wines.

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