4
Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American
Price: $$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
Comments: Everything is from scratch.
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: Local organic vegetables rotate depending on availability
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: Grove Ladder Farm
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
No
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
No
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
No
Comments: They don’t offer salads.
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
Comments: Home madebiscuits.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
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Anyaeva
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Buttermilk Handcrafted Food
Palmer Boulevard, Sarasota
This cafe keeps it simple but amazing by serving biscuits with local soy free and gmo free eggs and chicken (Grove Ladder Farm), organic vegetable sides, Banner Butter (which is some of the best butter I've tasted), and Benton's Bacon which uses traditional smoking methods. Everything is made from scratch. It's basic food but carefully sourced and extremely tasty. Please ask where their eggs are sourced when you visit bc I have learned that it varies.