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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.
Not Sure
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.
Yes
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.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
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).
Yes
Rating Created by:
Dori Ben-David Johnston
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Location & Contact
7502 Green Valley Rd
Placerville, CA
This is a wonderful little cafe with excellent food, in a pleasant setting adjacent to the plant nursery (that carries numerous organic as well as native plant starts!). We enjoyed coffees as well as smoothies, oatmeal, and the wonderful egg bowls (with lots of veggies, avocado, etc.). We definitely plan on coming back again. The Meadow also hosts many yoga, sound healing and other community activities on a regular basis.
We really enjoyed this cafe - There are large windows letting the light in, and it is so nice to walk over to the nursery as well. In the Spring/Summer the outdoor seating will be fantastic.