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Featured Culinary Event
Winter Restaurant Week_ Madison, WI_ January 25 – 30, 2009

Various restaurants will offer special fixed-price, three course dinner menus for just $25 per person (beverages, tax and gratuity not included). And new this year ten of the restaurants are offering three course lunch specials for $15 per person! http://www.madisonmagazine.com/restaurantweek/index.php

Eating “Green” in Madison

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Café Soleil is a casual spot for breakfast and lunch located in State Capitol Square. All of the menu items are made with locally grown ingredients. They use recycled content and compostable containers.

Fork & Spoon Café at RP’s Pasta Co. is conveniently located on the east Isthmus Bike Path. Fresh pasta dishes and retail pasta are made with organic flour. They recycle and are moving towards solar water systems.

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Harvest features traditional French and American cuisines using local, organic, seasonal ingredients. Their ever-changing menu takes advantage of the local and organic ingredients raised by farmers in the region.

L’Etoile Restaurant supports Wisconsin farmers. Regardless of season, their French-inspired menu features local, organic and naturally raised ingredients.

Madison is home to the Dane County Farmers’

Market, the largest producer-only farmers’ market in
the country and is open every Saturday year-round.
The State Capitol Square hosts the outdoor market
during the
More FOOd for thought…
summer months
until moving
indoors to Monona Terrace for the winter.

References:

http://www.moderntravelermagazine.com

http://www.madisonmagazine.com/restaurantweek/index.php

http://www.dcfm.org

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