Finding Sustainable Food While Traveling

I was pleasantly surprised to find a touch of sustainable food on our recent visit to Las Vegas of all places. We visited 2 restaurants in particular, Enoteca San Marco (Mario Batali owned restaurant in the Venetian) and Bradley Ogden in Caesar's (who also owns Parcel 104 in Santa Clara), that highlighted sustainable, locally grown food on their menus. Since we're just visitors, we will likely never have the opportunity to know the farmers or visit the local farms where these restaurants get their food. But just to read their names on the menu, know that they were supplying some of the food that I was eating, and that the restaurants were making an effort to make that connection for me was satisfying enough.

Although there is definitely a PR grab that factors into this, reading the various articles (here and here) about Mario Batali raising the profile of a farmers' markets and local farms in Las Vegas is still interesting nonetheless.