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

Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen

After teasing us locals for months, the Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen opened a few weeks ago. Yay! Food = great. Beer = fantastic. Best of all, no styrofoam! We didn't have leftovers, but I saw a waitress carrying folded paper boxes for those that did.

Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen
601 Holly St
Bellingham, WA
(360) 752-3377 (easily remembered as 360-75-BEERS)

The Daisy Cafe

Aside from a couple of goof-ups with my husband's calzone, the food was decent, service was fantastic. Best of all--just fabulous to-go containers...molded paper clamshells! The paper is probably bleached, but it's a good alternative to styrofoam.

The Daisy Cafe (same location as the former Cafe Toulouse)

114 W Magnolia

Bellingham, WA

(360) 733-8996

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

Greetings!

Welcome to the inaugural post of Eat Greener!

It is with great disappointment that I have to start off with a non-green restaurant post. The food was good, but we had to haul our leftovers home in styrofoam. I keep forgetting to bring my own to-go containers from home when I go out...my bad.

Lemon Grass Cafe
111 N Samish Way
Bellingham, WA
(360) 676-4102

If you go...BYOC. Bring your own container.