I’m really stoked that in the new issue of L Magazine, Dirt Candy was named “BEST GREEN RESTAURANT YOU COULD TAKE YOUR HAUTE CUISINE FOOD SNOB TO.” Despite ending their sentence in a preposition (which I don’t think is such a big deal these days), this is otherwise totally cool. I try hard to be green at Dirt Candy, and I try to be sustainable, but I really don’t want to brag about it or make it a big part of how I present myself. To me, it just makes sense to do these things but I’ve seen several places brag a lot about being organic and green and sustainable that aren’t, and it’s made me shy about it. So it’s nice when someone else says it for me! Here’s their write-up:

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“BEST GREEN RESTAURANT YOU COULD TAKE YOUR HAUTE CUISINE FOOD SNOB TO
Dirt Candy
If Candle Café is your Chanel-wearing stepmother, Dirt Candy (430 E. 9th St) would be your Westwood-wearing kooky aunt. They make no outward claims to any kind of ideological position (though they are very eco-minded, as a matter of course), but focus rather on how interesting, even experimental, a kitchen can get with vegetables (aka, dirt candy). Standouts include: jalapeño hush puppies with maple butter, grits topped with pickled shiitake, and zucchini ginger cake. The level of inventiveness (and risk taking) here is sure to impress even the snootiest haute cuisine enthusiast.”

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I’m also named with Birdbath, the Red Hook Community Farm, the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm and Candle Cafe, which is pretty cool.

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Read the full list of award winners here.

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