Greens Restaurant
View out the window of Greens Restaurant
Greens Restaurant is a landmark vegetarian restaurant[1][2] in the Fort Mason Center in the Marina District, San Francisco, California, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979,[3][4] Greens has been credited in The New York Times as “the restaurant that brought vegetarian food out from sprout-infested health food stores and established it as a cuisine in America.”[5]
Annie Somerville was the chef before Denise St. Onge. The current head chef is Kayetlyn Reicher. The restaurant utilizes fresh produce from the organic Green Gulch Farm Zen Center.
Books[]
- The Greens Cookbook. Deborah Madison with Edward Espe Brown. Random House Broadway imprint. ISBN 0-7679-0823-6, ISBN 978-0-7679-0823-8.
- Fields of Greens. . Bantam Books.
See also[]
- California Cuisine
- Green Gulch Farm
- List of vegetarian restaurants
- Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
References[]
- ^ Maggie Crum (April 26, 1997). "Veggie gold is still at Greens". Contra Costa Times.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Alan Liddle (September 29, 1986). "Fresh seafood, produce mold 565 Clay's success - San Francisco restaurant". Nation's Restaurant News.
- ^ Peter Sinton (April 10, 1999). "Staff of Life Not Enough For Tassajara". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Eileen Hansen (August 29, 2004). "It's good to be greens". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Gregory Dicum (November 18, 2007). "Expanding the Frontiers of the Vegetarian Plate". The New York Times.
External links[]
- "About Greens Restaurant". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
Built by San Francisco Zen Center carpenters, the restaurant incorporates 12 types of wood - from the massive black walnut doors, the hickory stairs at the entrance, the curved bar featuring Port-Orford-Cedar, and the dining tables of maple, walnut and cherry. Much of the wood has been recycled or reclaimed.
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Coordinates: 37°48′23″N 122°25′56″W / 37.80645°N 122.43212°W
Categories:
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Restaurants in San Francisco
- Vegetarian restaurants in the United States
- Restaurants established in 1979
- Buddhist cuisine
- 1979 establishments in California