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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American
Price: price3
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: They make a point of using mostly local ingredients.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: They also have wild fish--including a delicious wild catfish.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
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: They are doing so much right--we were disappointed that they thought it OK to use canola oil.
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
Comments: There seasoning on the blackened wild catfish was made from scratch.
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
No
Comments: They make their own dressing but use canola oil--a pity!
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: We enjoyed delicious house-made kombucha.
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: They pride themselves on their homemade sauerkraut and other lacto-fermented condiments
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
Comments: We asked and they said one dessert was "molasses-based." But all contain refined sweeteners.
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SFALLON
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Location & Contact
Down Town Annapolis
164 Main Street
Annapolis, MD
164 Main Street
Annapolis, MD
Interesting and delicious food, locally sourced, and so nice to enjoy the meal with a glass of house-made kombucha. Areas that need improvement are bread and cooking oils. My absolutely delicious chicken liver pate (served with kombucha jelly!!) would have been so much better with slices of sourdough toast rather than stale white bread. They use canola oil for frying and salad dressings; we hope they will look into this further and switch to lard or tallow for cooking and olive oil for the salad dressings. This restaurant is a potential 12-spoons, they just need to make a few changes.