12
Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American, Other
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
Comments: The restaurants also source from many other local farms and artisan food purveyors.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: All grass-fed meats and many vegetables, honey and mushrooms are raised on Kristin's own Farm at Woods Hill in nearby New Hampshire.
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.
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).
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
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: This is one cozy bistro where house-made Kombucha is always on tap!
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:
Kimberly Hartke
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Location & Contact
24 Commonwealth Avenue
West Concord, Concord
Woods Hill Table is Filmmaker Kristin Canty's dream. After the success of documentary, Farmageddon, The Unseen War on American Family Farms, Kristin decide to establish a local farm-to-table restaurant based on Weston A. Price Foundation dietary principles. This dietary regime was what helped her, as a young mother, to create robust good health for her children. She recruited Executive Chef Charlie Foster, brought him to the Wise Traditions conference, and challenged him to fully implement WAPF practices in her first restaurant project (she now owns 3 eaterys).
Charlie gave this reviewer a tour of the Woods Hill Kitchen and "root cellar" and it is impressive to see the large containers of vegetable ferments and the grass-fed meats being thawed out in the chiller or marinating in a brine.
Kristin and Charlie are passionate about local foods, and from this location service two other restaturants, Adelita Taco and Margarita Bar, also in Concord and Woods Hill on Pier 4 on Boston Harbor