I regret to report that it's just window dressing. There's no real commitment to seasonality or local ingredients across the menu. The two times I've been, the "market fresh" soup of the day has been tomato, even though most local gardeners wouldn't have even planted tomatoes by then out of fear for a late freeze. Dallas deserves better than this.
From reading, it seems that Rathbun's is making an attempt to support local producers. While idealistically it would be nice for the entire menu to be local, sometimes it isn't feasible. I'd rather a restaurant do as much as they can than nothing at all.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic membership supported organization that educates people about how their food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 80,000 members all over the world.
The Dallas Convivium of Slow Food was launched in the Spring of 2003 when interest in this area reached a critical mass. It is, by its nature, a grass-roots group that ebbs and flows based on what members want and contribute.
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I regret to report that it's just window dressing. There's no real commitment to seasonality or local ingredients across the menu. The two times I've been, the "market fresh" soup of the day has been tomato, even though most local gardeners wouldn't have even planted tomatoes by then out of fear for a late freeze. Dallas deserves better than this.
That's too bad. Local is an easily abused marketing term, it seems.
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There was another blog written about Rathbun's on Guidelive:
http://eatsblog.guidelive.com/archives/2009/03/cooking-with-fire-at-rathbuns.html
From reading, it seems that Rathbun's is making an attempt to support local producers. While idealistically it would be nice for the entire menu to be local, sometimes it isn't feasible. I'd rather a restaurant do as much as they can than nothing at all.
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That's too bad. Local is an easily abused marketing term, it seems.
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