Italian Tomato

While up in British Columbia today, my co-travelers and I stopped at a little Italian place just outside the Vancouver airport in Richmond, BC...Italian Tomato.

Food: Excellent. Enormous portions of pasta, so I'm willing to bet you'll have leftovers.

Carry-out provisions: Styrofoam.

And to make it just a little bit worse, each of our four containers of leftovers was in a plastic bag. Four styrofoam containers, four plastic bags. Ugh.

Italian Tomato

8380 Bridgeport Rd

Richmond, BC

(604) 247-0040

Jeckyl & Hyde Deli & Ale House

It's not in a neighborhood where you would expect to find many restaurants, but it's a great little place to eat. I like the tabletops coated with blackboard paint. You know...the paint that allows you to draw on it with chalk and erase it as if it were the old-style classroom blackboards. They even have a little cup of chalk at each table--you can create a masterpiece while waiting for your food! Better still, they don't use styrofoam carry-out containers!

Jeckyl & Hyde Deli & Ale House
709 W Orchard Dr #1
Bellingham, WA
(360) 715-9100

Fiamma!

I can't start off with just a negative entry. Here's a couple of my favorites...both locally owned and operated. I can't say enough about these places, but don't want to spend a lot of time doing that here. Check out the websites for more information. Both use biodegradable packaging.

La Fiamma Wood Fire Pizza

200 E Chestnut St
Bellingham, WA

(360) 647-0060

Fiamma Burger

1309 Railroad Ave
Bellingham, WA

(360) 733-7374