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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.
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).
Yes
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.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
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
Rating Created by:
Sarah Ruiz
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Location & Contact
108 East 3rd North Street
Summerville, SC
Coastal Coffee Roasters is a warm family-owned business that does their best to source local food from the Charleston area. They roast their own organic coffee beans and some of the farms they source from include: Lowcountry Creamery, Gruber Farms, Wishbone Heritage Farms and The Twenty Bag. Their produce comes from The Twenty Bag, which are vegetables and fruits grown organically in the lowcountry. The eggs and chicken are pasture raised from Wishbone Heritage Farms. A pickup is also hosted for Wishbone Heritage Farms and for The Twenty Bag once a week at the restaurant. The deli meats are from Boar's Head. The dairy products, including butter are from Lowcountry Creamery. The broths, seasonings and dressings are made in house and extra virgin olive oil is used to make the dressings. The restaurant makes their own kombucha! Most of their food is made from scratch, including their baked goods. The one baked good they outsource are their bagels. Their sandwiches are grilled in butter, b