A Locavore Dream
In fact, raising prices would be a blessing. Come on, what else can we expect? It would keep us honest. It would say, “restaurants are part of the real world.” But that’s not gonna happen, because the restaurants don’t trust you to understand. Sadly, they’re probably right. I personally know of just two restaurants that have raised prices to match food costs, and I’m keeping it to myself. Who knows what revealing it would do to their patronage?
Much of my radical concept is in fact not all that radical — you won’t find abalone, lobster or venison on the menu. But what you do find will be priced not because it’s been processed and shipped from some distant location, but because it is the very best local stuff you can get.
I know, I know. It may never happen. But think about what it would say to the North Coast, and the world: “We love living here, buying here, and eating here. We are the new time and place in American culinary history.”
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Comment / By Lynnerd / Sept. 10, 2008, 10:18 a.m.
The theoretical restaurant you describe sounds much like Chez Panisse, founded in Berkeley in 1971. (The only difference, really, is the seating arrangement.) Do you really believe that you can fool Humboldt County readers into thinking that this is a new idea?