GOOD QUESTIONS: Restaurant with raw milk or ferments?

Hello Local Forage,
I'm wondering, are there any restaurants in the Bay Area that serve dishes made with raw milk or lacto-fermented vegetables?
- Andy R.

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Hi Andy,

I used to love this place in SF called Urban Forage. They had 3 locations in the city and they had house made sauerkraut. They shut down, and I've been grieving ever since. Raw restaurant Cafe Gratitude serves house-made, naturally fermented Kimchee in their I AM WHOLE “Macro” bowl. It has shredded kale, sea vegetables, choice of grain, kim chee and sprouts, topped with miso-tahini sauce. They have 2 restaurants here in the city and one in Berkeley. 

In Berkeley, there is a community supported kitchen by the name of Three Stone Hearth. They offer an organic (beyond organic, actually) box with prepared foods. It's not a restaurant, though. You pick up the box or get it delivered. I have attended their Full Moon Feasts and I can say they are fantastic. Great people preparing super high quality food. They buy direct from farmers. Each week they offer at least one cultured vegetable such as sauerkraut, kimchee, pickles, cortido, chutney, or salsa.

I don't know of anyone who serves raw milk.

Anyone else?

~Carla

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[annarae]

I dont imagine the health dept would like it if restaurants served raw milk, and the restaurant (just like raw milk farmers who are going by the book but still get harrassed). The biggest (and most important reason) the FDA HATES raw milk is that raw milk heals people. When people are healthy, they don't need all these drugs anymore, so there goes an entire profit-driven industry. The FDA is completely corrupt --- trust me that they don't have YOUR best interest at hand, only lining the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry. In the 1930's when milk was blamed for killing people, it was because the practices were filty, the cows were sick, and the feed was brewery waste. Drinking THAT milk upasteurized would be like drinking confinement (factory farm) milk raw - NO THANKS. I have a farm, and farmers drink their OWN milk - not pasteurized garbage from the grocery store. Good food, as nature intended - plain & simple....and if I HAD kids, yes, I would give it to them -- so holier-than-thou mothers take your finger wagging and preaching elsewhere. Raw milk has made for extremely healthy bodies on THIS farm!