Greens Restaurant

Greens Restaurant is a landmark vegetarian restaurant^[1][2] in the Fort Mason Center in the Marina District, San Francisco, California, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Greens Restaurant
View out the window of Greens Restaurant
Restaurant information
Established	1979; 45 years ago (1979)
Head chef	Katie Reicher
Food type	Vegetarian, Local/organic, California
Street address	Building A, 2 Marina Blvd
City	San Francisco
State	California
Postal/ZIP Code	94123
Country	United States
Coordinates	37.80645°N 122.43212°W / 37.80645; -122.43212
Website	greensrestaurant.com

History

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

Founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979,^[3][4] Greens has been credited in The New York Times as "the restaurant that brought vegetarian food out from sprout-infested health food stores and established it as a cuisine in America."^[5]

Greens has a legacy of female lead chefs, beginning with founding chef Deborah Madison, and followed by Annie Somerville, Denise St. Onge, and currently Katie Reicher.^[6][7] The restaurant utilizes fresh produce from the organic Green Gulch Farm Zen Center.

Books

• The Greens Cookbook. Deborah Madison with Edward Espe Brown. Random House Broadway imprint. ISBN 0-7679-0823-6, 978-0-7679-0823-8.
• Fields of Greens: New Vegetarian Recipes From The Celebrated Greens Restaurant: A Cookbook. Annie Somerville. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0553091397, 0553091395.

See also

• California Cuisine
• Chez Panisse
• Moosewood Restaurant
• Green Gulch Farm
• Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

References

1. Maggie Crum (April 26, 1997). "Veggie gold is still at Greens". Contra Costa Times.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. Alan Liddle (September 29, 1986). "Fresh seafood, produce mold 565 Clay's success - San Francisco restaurant". Nation's Restaurant News.
3. Peter Sinton (April 10, 1999). "Staff of Life Not Enough For Tassajara". San Francisco Chronicle.
4. Eileen Hansen (August 29, 2004). "It's good to be greens". San Francisco Chronicle.
5. Gregory Dicum (November 18, 2007). "Expanding the Frontiers of the Vegetarian Plate". The New York Times.
6. Landis, David (August 25, 2022). "Celebrating Vegetables at San Francisco's Greens Restaurant". San Francisco Bay Times. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
7. "About". greensrestaurant.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.

External links

• "About Greens Restaurant". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Built by San Francisco Zen Center carpenters, the restaurant incorporates 12 types of wood - from the massive black walnut doors, the hickory stairs at the entrance, the curved bar featuring Port-Orford-Cedar, and the dining tables of maple, walnut and cherry. Much of the wood has been recycled or reclaimed.