Restaurant Review: Greens, SF

Greens, https://greensrestaurant.com/, is a vegetarian restaurant that was started in San Francisco in 1979 and it continues to serve incredible diversity and quality of vegetarian food with vegan options.

The restaurant has a great location in Fort Mason on the San Francisco waterfront, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands.  The address is: 2 Marina Boulevard, Fort Mason, Building A, with plenty of parking just steps from the front door.

The menu is comprised of small plates and first courses that are like tapas and great for sharing, plus main courses.  Every dish that our group had was excellent, as were the deserts.  I highly recommend the blistered peppers, grilled peaches and Johnny Cakes.  The main courses that I tried were the Mesquite Grilled Tofu and Saffron Risotto, which were great.  Many dishes are marked with a “VP”, meaning vegan possible and there are many “GFP”, gluten-free possible dishes as well.

This is definitely a restaurant to visit with friends, so you can share plates and try as many dishes as possible.

You can start the afternoon with a pre-meal stroll along the Marina, just next to Fort Mason and/or visit The Interval, right next door to Greens for a cocktail.

I highly recommend Greens, even if you are not a vegetarian/vegan!

Impossible Sausage Will Be At Grocery Stores Soon

Not to be outdone (much) by recent Beyond Meats announcements, Impossible Foods recently announced that their sausage in “Savory” and “Spicy” flavors will be sold at grocery stores soon. Up to this point, Impossible Sausage was only available at places like Starbucks and Burger King.

The suggested retail price is $5.99/14oz package. See Impossible_Sausage.

This comes after Impossible Meats announced last month their “Chicken Nuggets” alternative.

It is getting easier by the month to try out, or convert to, a plant based diet!

The UN’s New Report on climate Change

Climate change articles are coming out every week, especially with Fire season in full swing around the world and Hurricane season in play as well. Many of you are aware that the United Nations just released its updated Climate Change report this week. You can download the full 1300+ page report or a 39 page policymakers’ high level summary here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM.

An alternative to that is to look for a trusted source to summarize it for you. Here are some options, but virtually every news source has an article covering this:

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/un-sounds-clarion-call-over-irreversible-climate-impacts-by-humans-2021-08-09/

NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/un-climate-report-takeaways.html

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1025898341/major-report-warns-climate-change-is-accelerating-and-humans-must-cut-emissions-

I urge you to read about this report. It is too important to ignore or delay thinking about. One note: The report gives a very stark outlook on the future, but does not go into possible solutions or actions.

New Products from Beyond Meats!

Beyond Meats and Pizza Hut just announced today, August 10, 2021, that Pizza Hut locations will have Beyond Meats’ plant-based Pepperoni: https://www.beyondmeat.com/whats-new/beyond-pepperoni-arrives-at-pizza-hut-locations-in-the-u-s/.

This announcement comes just after A&W Canada began selling Beyond’s Chicken nuggets, also this month: https://www.beyondmeat.com/whats-new/beyond-chicken-nuggets-debuting-at-aw-canada-nationwide/.

The Pepperoni and Chicken alternatives are not even listed on the Beyond Products list.

WHAT’S NEXT???