Sustainable seafood guides grow, but still require too much research
Jan 20th, 2010 | By Vera | Category: Green LivingA new sustainable seafood guide called Fish2Fork just came out to help you make responsible dining choices. Created by the folks behind the film End of the Line, it’s got reviews of up to 50 restaurants in 14 states, which is a good start. One of the highest ranking so far turns out to be my friends Elena and Dennis’ Sea Rocket Bistro.
But according to food critic Michael Bauer the guide still doesn’t measure up to Seafood Watch and misses a lot of restaurants - some of which deserve a lotta stars.
It doesn’t help me to decide whether Water Bar is a good Dine About Town option, for example.
- Its menu details where and how fish is caught, which I would think would give it an easy 2.5 stars: Thumbs up.
- It serves wild sea bass, which according to Seafood Watch is now out of ‘overfished’ status: Thumbs up.
- But though the menu provides locations for where fish came from, it’s still hard to decipher. Its prawns from the Gulf of Mexico are not labeled as farmed or wild: Thumbs down.
Guess I’ll have to email the restaurant itself or ask the folks at the Monterey Aquarium until the Fish2fork guide becomes more comprehensive.
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The fish2fork website is designed to be updated by the concerned diner. It is a site that belongs to everyone. For it to grow and cover all the right restaurants it needs diners to report their good and bad dining experiences and the site will reward or slate the restaurant appropriately. I hope that as more people hear about the site they will write in and increase the number of restaurants covered.
Thanks for your feedback. I do hope enough people will get involved to make the site as informative as it could be.