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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
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
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.
Not Sure
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).
Not Sure
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Not Sure
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Not Sure
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Not Sure
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).
Yes
Rating Created by:
John Socha
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Location & Contact
2523 Quenby Street
Houston, TX
Great locally owned coffee, breakfast and lunch spot in the rice village. The menu is well thought out and uses local ingredients from the Urban Harvest Farmers Market heavily. Great spot for breakfast or lunch.