Deborah Madison was decades ahead of her time when she opened her influential restaurant in San Francisco in 1979. One of the first farm-driven restaurants in the Bay Area, this restaurant is often credited with transforming vegetarian food into sophisticated cuisine. What was the name of the restaurant?
Stars
Greens
Chez Panisse
The answer is Greens, which 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.”