10
Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
Other
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
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.
Yes
Comments: Only use coconut oil, avocado oil, olive oil or grass-fed butter in their kitchen.
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
Comments: They make their own salad dressings and condiments
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: They don't sell Soda Pop!! Only locally roasted fair trade coffee, fair trade tea, water, kombucha, juice, and Honest Iced Tea.
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
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:
Andrea Neidrauer
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Location & Contact
25 Buffalo Street
Akron, NY
Terra House is a small family-owned business in the quaint village of Akron New York. Their number one priority is how they source their ingredients and educating the community on the importance of supporting sustainable agricultural systems. They have an Artisan Cafe which has food perks such as locally raised grass-fed beef, local and organic produce, the honey they use is from their own beehives, they use their own organically grown herbs, they make their own kombucha but also sell locally produced kombucha. They make their own kraut, pickles, hot sauce through lacto-fermentation. They offer sourdough or Einkorn (ancient grain which they mill right in house) Artisan breads made with locally produced organic grains. They shred all their own cheeses to avoid the use of preservatives and anti-caking additives, they make their own spice blends. Using higher quality ingredients means better tasting food!