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1 The Organic Reastaurant "California Club"
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Club now listed at the major Internet Web sites 
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 Organic Restaurant
"California Club" in Tokyo Downtown
The clear blue skies, bright sunshine, and
abundance of nature of Rocky mountains around will charm people. This is what California
is and we now bring this wonderful natures to Japan with its suberb fine foods. A good
comination of Japanese delicacies with the taste of Pacific Westcoast, the restaurant will
undoubtedly charm anyone in the town. Please enjoy the tasty chicken, beef and seafood
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3 A magazine in Tokyo called "Mens Extra"
featured Organic Reataurant boom in California.
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(From left: Alice, Bob and Tom by Mens Extra
magazine)
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These contents are a partial extraction from the web sites
available at Chez Panisse and The French
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ABOUT CHEZ PANISSE
Chez Panisse opened its
doors in 1971, started by Alice Waters and an assortment of idealistic friends. A
neighborhood bistro named after a character in Marcel Pagnol's 1930's trilogy of movies
("Marius," "Fanny," and "Cesar"), the Restaurant and Cafe
are a homage to the sentiment, comedy and informality of these classic films.
From the beginning, Alice and her partners tried to do things the way they would like them
done at a dinner party at home. The Restaurant downstairs has always offered only one
fixed-price menu, of three to five courses. The menu changes every night, designed to be
appropriate to the season and composed to show off the finest ingredients obtainable. The
Cafe upstairs
serves both lunch and dinner from an la carte menu that also changes daily.
Alice and Chez Panisse have become convinced that the best-tasting food is organically
grown and harvested in ways that are ecologically sound, by people who are taking care of
the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients has largely determined the
restaurant's cuisine. Chez Panisse has tried for years to make diners here partake of the
immediacy and excitement of vegetables just out of the garden, fruit right off the branch,
and fish straight out of the sea. In doing so, Chez Panisse has stitched together a
patchwork of over sixty nearby suppliers, whose concerns, like the restaurant's, are
environmental harmony and optimal flavor.
Please visit "Chez
Panisse" home page at http://www.chezpanisse.com/main.html
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The French Laundry
Thomas Keller is chef and owner of
The French Laundry in Yountville, California.
Keller, renowned coast to coast for his innovation and dedication, has received numerous
accolades throughout his career. Most recently he was named 1997 "Outstanding Chef:
America," and last year was named 1996 "Best American Chef:
California" by the James Beard Foundation. Keller also received Restaurants &
Institutions' 1996 Ivy Award. The French Laundry has been praised by Esquire,
Gourmet, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle and Wine Spectator, to name a few. In addition, Keller has been
chosen as a spokesperson for the California Milk Advisory Board for 1997 and 1998.
Born in Southern California, Keller, 41, is a veteran of many of the great restaurant
kitchens of the world. He first gained recognition at La Reserve and Restaurant
Raphael in New York, where he earned national exposure. To further his expertise, he moved
abroad and served an "estagiere" apprenticeship throughout France in the
kitchens of Guy Savoy, Michael Pasquet, Gerard Besson, Taillevant, Le Toit de
Passey, Chiberta and Le Pre Catalan.
After Keller returned to New York he opened Rakel, where he received front page coverage
on New York Magazine's "Ask Gael" issue. Four years later, Keller moved to
California and joined the Ayala Hotel Group as executive chef of Checkers Hotel in Los
Angeles.
Keller purchased The French Laundry in 1994, with the goal of creating a three-star
country French restaurant in the heart of the Napa Valley. Keller's restaurant offers a
sublime dining experience set in a charming turn-of-the-century stone building, surrounded
by lush gardens. In addition, Keller is the founder and owner of EVO, Inc., a
nationally distributed retail line of premium California olive oils and vinegar.
Please visit "The French Laundry" home
page at http://www.sterba.com/yountville/frenchlaundry
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4 Organic Related Links
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(From the Editor: March 2000)
The restaurant business in Tokyo Nihonbashi has opened a new
door and given us a new business dimension to MLT as we are directly exposed to the
consumers. We serve "Petaluma organic chicken" as well as natural beef from New
Zealand and other healthy ingredients such as seafood(fish, shrimp, clam etc.) from
Hokkaido while it present us a great opportunity to learn more about food business.
The main theme is still "Organic" and we have named this restaurant as
"Organic Restaurant" similar we can see locally here in California particularly
northern California, the Bay area.
MLT continues its efforts to keep updates on relative
business information about the industry and hopes to bring readers with more valuable and
interesting information. We target all our time and effort to "organic" foods so
as to keep our eyes on "healthiness, freshness, cleanness" of our quality life
today. And we always appreciate your support and welcome your comments and suggestions,
thank you.
(Past Issues)
2000 -Jan
1999 -Dec -Nov -Sep -Aug -Jul
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1998 -Dec -Nov
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