Slims Restaurant

Beyond Beyond Organic ::  Urban Ag

Farm to Fork to Farm…

“Much of the advice on eating ethically that now exists is far too confident and incomplete in light of the options before us.  It assumes that it is already possible for the world to eat an environmentally responsible diet.  But, as should be clear by now, it’s not.  Over the past decade or so, largely under the guidance of locavores, we have searched for precise guidelines for how to eat.  In undertaking this important mission, we have identified the right goal - sustainable food production - while jumping the gun on how to pursue it.

What we thus often end up doing is swallowing whole a bumper-sticker mantra - eat local, buy organic, support fair trade, damn Frankenfoods - without fully examining the effects of universalizing these impassioned imperatives.  It rarely occurs to us as we contemplate our personal dietary values that the current options might be inadequate, or even counterproductive.  The virtue we currently feel as a result of our green culinary decisions is, I fear, often a false virtue.”

-From James E. McWilliams’  Just Food (2009)

In addition…

The Thursday 3 for $30 promotion has been well received over the past few months. Thank you!  Slims will now extend that menu option to Fridays as well, during the hours of 5:30 to 7:00 pm.  Post 7pm on Fridays as well as Saturday evenings will be the standard $45 pre-fixe menu.  Please remember that our menu changes weekly to keep our cooks and regular customers engaged and inspired.  All menu changes are posted to the website by 3pm on Thursdays.  We hope you will join us again soon.