Toronto’s Eco Eats

In a city focused on reducing waste (for obvious reasons) what is your favourite Eco-friendly lunch or take-out spot?

I thought today’s discussion really should address the biggest concern people have about the strike by Toronto’s city workers – the garbage pile up.

It’s a little shocking, perhaps, to be talking garbage on a food site, but the truth is that for every napkin used, every potato peeled, every 2-item combo on noodles ordered there is an increasing pile of garbage and we are responsible for it.

And some people have come up with brilliant ideas for dealing with it.  (If you haven’t heard about Friday night’s charity trash drive to raise money for War Child, read this now!)

But strike and accumulating ggarbage aside, even the recent 5¢ charge for plastic bags has made us more conscious of our consumption of packaging and extras.  Or at least I hope it has.

So today’s question is what is your favourite eco-friendly take-out lunch spot? Is it a sushi spot which will happily plate on your own platters from home?  A soup spot that will fill your thermos with the soup de jour?  Or a grocery prepared food counter that offers bistro tables and real plates?

We’ve already heard from karmacakedotca and RJToronto via twitter that Camros Eatery on Hayden has great organic, Persian food and all biodegradable packaging! RJToronto says they even have biodegradable cutlery made from potato starch. Now that’s COOL!

karmacakedotca adds “and their kale and beet salad with tahini sauce is my abfab fav. Their borsch is killer and their almond whip "cheesecake" phenom!”

What is your favourite Eco-friendly lunch or take-out spot?