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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American, Italian
Price: $$
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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 homemade: cheeses, meat, sourdough, tortillas, pizza, bone broth, fermented butter, pasta, breads.
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: Dairy and organic vegetables are locally-sourced.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: Chicken, eggs, and pork.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
Comments: Chicken liver pate, and lengua tacos.
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.
Yes
Comments: Natural fats only (lard, tallow, butter). Absolutely no industrial seed oils used.
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
Comments: Made in-house each week from high quality locally sourced animals. Unflavored and unsalted for versatility, served in a glass quart mason jar. They have a rewards program to encourage customers to return glass jars.
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
Comments: Special in-house “everything” seasoning using nigella and pumpkin seeds instead of poppy and sesame seeds.
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
Comments: Natural fats only. Absolutely no industrial seed oils used.
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
Comments: All grains go through the fermentation process (aka sourdough) to make them as healthy and bioavailable as possible. Sourdough bread, focaccia, soft pretzels, sandwich bread, baguettes, fougasse, crackers, pretzel bites, and cinnamon topknots.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: Kombucha margarita, and local organic coffee
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: Wholegrain mustard, fermented ketchup, and cream cheese all made in-house.
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
Comments: All made with natural sugars only; honey, maple syrup, or muscovado. Sourdough chocolate chip cookies, cricket protein bombs, chocolate peanut butter pretzel bites,
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Location & Contact
236 Cannon Street
Chestertown, MD
A true east coast gem that embodies ALL 12 spoons! Modern Stone Age Kitchen is a “foodery” that is a unique blend of a traditional restaurant, cafe, bakery, grocery store, and community supported kitchen. On Friday evenings they offer fresh-baked pizza, which are 100% homemade (from sourdough crust to the cheese and sausage) using local ingredients. Pop in during the morning for a fluffy sourdough waffle, bagel with cream cheese, breakfast sandwich, muffin, or yogurt to fuel up before visiting the Chestertown farmers market and exploring the area. All their grains are 100% sourdough! MSAK also has a teaching kitchen, The Eastern Shore Food Lab, where you can take classes on sourdough, sausage or cheese-making, fermentation, and foraging. Indoor and outdoor seating is available. They do get a decent amount of visitors, but the layout and hospitality eliminates any fear of waiting in a long line.