Restaurants

Want to dine out on a GE free meal or one grown from organic crops? This page lists GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe¹) restaurants for your dining consumption. This rather small list either reflects a paucity of ‘green’ restaurants around town or the fact we eat in a lot—help us add to it!

Basilicum Café, The

Vegetarian restaurant that’s specifically GE free and organic where-ever possible.

Phone: 939 2233
Address: 202 Jackson Street, Petone

Real Earth Organic Café

‘Has a great menu that will tantalise the taste buds. All organic food like sourdough waffles with fruit and lemon curd, fresh baked on site bread and cakes, seasonal salads and soups, wild venison salami, New York meatball subs and great coffee. All fruit and vegetables are washed with filtered water to ensure the healthiest food for you. Live long, eat well, Enjoy!’

Contact: John Miles
Phone: 470 7752
Fax: 470 7751
Address: Corner Bond and Victoria Streets, Central Wellington

White House Restaurant, The

The chef at this up market restaurant has a penchant for ordering organic food.

Phone: 385 8555
Address: Upstairs, 232 Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay

List last updated 2003-09-20. New items in the preceding 30 days are (marked) as such. For suggestions or corrections, please contact the web master.

¹GRAS: Generally Regarded As Safe. This is used to describe the FDA philosophy that justifies approval of food additives that may not meet the usual test criteria for safety; however, these additives have been used extensively and have not demonstrated any harm to consumers.