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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
Comments: He does his best to source food locally as much as he can. All of the beef is grass fed and grass finished from a local farm - Roback. They used to be able to source their chicken locally, but a lot of farms closed after the pandemic. They are hoping to source their chicken locally again in the future. Unfortunately, their are no traditional fats used in the kitchen.
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
Comments: Soy oil is used for deep frying. Some of the dressings use olive oil, but upon further questioning, I found out that the olive oil used is a blend. The chef understands that it would be better to use more traditional fats, but he wants to keep the cost down for the average person. He said that if he used real olive oil for salad dressings, the cost would increase by about $3.
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.
No
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
860 South Church Street
Greenville, SC
Farm Fresh Fast has a focus on providing locally raised foods at an affordable price for most people. The restaurant is a nice find for locals or for travelers. My family and I wanted burgers when traveling up to Greenville and were excited to dine at Farm Fresh Fast when we found out they served grass fed burgers. All of their beef is sourced from a local farm that raises cows that are grass fed and grass finished.