COOL Cuisine: Planet-Friendly Feast Series 2024 – December & Beyond!

The five-month series of planet-friendly* feasts at five Davis restaurants hosted by COOL Cuisine is coming to its zenith for the year.

You can still join in at communal, sustainable meals with a wide range of international flavors. Many people are not aware of the possibilities to dine high on flavor and low on the food chain in local restaurants, so COOL Cuisine has organized this series.

At these events, guests sit at tables together, so everyone gets a chance to meet new people. To attend an event you must register in advance to have a seat saved for you. (Those registered are expected to attend.) The price points are varied so there is something that meets most people’s budget.

COOL Cuisine is a coalition of individuals and organizations seeking more plant-based, planet-friendly, and health conscious dining and shopping options in Davis and the surrounding region through outreach, restaurant meetups, and special events.  Their members vote with their wallets!

Starting last August they have rebooted their monthly dining out experiences post COVID!

The event in October at Preethi Indian Cuisine was a big hit,  57 people RSVPed and 44 showed up. The restaurant  gets a head count 2 full days in advance.  The restaurant buys extra food and saves the number of seats reserved. Participants are encouraged to reserve early and to cancel the reservation if they cannot attend (instructions are on coolcuisine.net).   Preethi provided a very large all vegan buffet with a wide range of the flavors and textures they have on the menu and some items not found on the menu.  If you stop in thank them for such an enthusiastic support of our event.

We encourage you to make Yelp and Google reviews for the restaurants you like. Yelp is a strong support for our downtown restaurants and brings extra revenue in to stabilize the seasonality in Davis drawing in travelers. This is because many people traveling from the Bay Area to Tahoe stop downtown for a bite along their journey.

We also recommend you spread the word to go eat in restaurants or pick up your food to take home rather than using DoorDash.

Sign up for future Cool Cuisine Events in December and beyond at coolcuisine.net !

DECEMBER – TAFFACH ETHIOPIAN, Catered at Village Homes Community Center, Thursday, 12/12, 6:30pm | $28 per person + $2 toward location rental |  Embrace 8 different dishes served family style on shared injera combo platters, price includes soft drink, tax, & tip.  For this event, guests need to pay in advance since it is catered and they need to count on quantities. Pay by 12/10 at 10pm. There are two options for payment, Venmo and Zelle.

Please pay $30 (meal and location) per person to:

    • Venmo (Wondimagegn-Shewa)
    • Zelle – 916-254-9481 or camonmahire@yahoo.com
  • Please also add your seat reservation to Eventbrite if you want to receive updates and event information from Cool Cuisine: Eventbrite .

VOLUNTEER!

The fearless organizer of Cool Cuisine, Anya McCann would love to have a few other foodies who would help out with managing the messaging, web presence and lists.  If you have talent to share please consider volunteering! Contact her at: coolcuisine.net