Rick Moonen On Sustainable Sin City
Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, June 11th, 2010 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink, Restaurants.
Chef Rick Moonen has long worked to educate about the dangers of overfishing and ocean conservation (while still cooking up fish in his restaurants) and told Eater while some people may not think of Las Vegas as being a heart of eco-friendly practices (think all that energy required for the lights on those strips), he encountered less resistance when preaching to chefs about removing certain seafood items from the menu.
“Las Vegas is closer to more organic farms than LA. True. And I’m not sure if this is timing or if it’s just a different mentality, but there’s more chef support—people actually making menu changes and making a movement towards being more sustainable on their menu—in Vegas than when I was in New York for twenty five years. True. The chefs sort of listened, but they weren’t motivated to take any action. You know, they’d sit there and listen to me and nod their heads but you look at their menu and: Chilean sea bass, red snapper, grouper, skate. I mean, what the? You don’t know why. I personally want to help to break the debauchering reputation of Las Vegas.”
Moonen’s restaurant, Mandalay Bay, isn’t the only sustainable outlet of Vegas, as Planet Green discusses. Ronald’s Donuts, for example, is said to have a menu of almost 90% vegan donuts. If you’re the type that eats dessert before dinner, you should then swing by the Go Raw Cafe for some pizza, a wrap or drink from the juice bar.
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