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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American
Price: price1
This exquisitely clean startup Bistro with friendly staff serves delicious, locally-sourced food.
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: Read about chef Erica's extensive background mastering culinary delights on their website.
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: The entrepreneurial sisters that own Willa Bs pride themselves on obtaining the prime sources of local meat, vegetables and fruit.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: They source eggs and poultry from a local farmer. Meat is sourced from Kristin and Nick Hicks.
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: Dimmock butter is used, coconut oil are the natural cooking fats used.
Crisco is used for baked goods.
Crisco is used for baked goods.
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.
Yes
Comments: The salad dressings are homemade; the ones with oil use olive oil.
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
Comments: They are actively seeking a local source for baked goods, as Loafers Bakery, their previous source, has moved to Vermilion.
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
Comments: All desserts are made in house except the kuchen, which is locally sourced from Pietz's kitchen in Scotland. Most in-house desserts use locally sourced honey.
Rating Created by:
mwalkes
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Location & Contact
Just north of Riverside park
114 Douglas Avenue Ste2
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114 Douglas Avenue Ste2
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4/5
Friendly service. Exquisitely clean.