I absolutely love Carnivale. The atmosphere is fun and the Latin American cuisine is delicious. I love it even more now that I discovered how green they are. They are making efforts to reduce their impact on the environment from the food they serve to the cleaning products they use.
They source a lot of their food from farms in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin. They’re cooking with cage-free organic eggs and sustainable seafood. Their chicken and pork are from local Gunthorp Farms and in the summer the grow veggies on the restaurant’s roof-top garden! Even their mojitos are made with organic mint from local farmers and they’re filtering their water at the source so it is 99.9% purified for drinking and even cooking! They recycle and they’re working with Gunthorp Farms to recycle non-trans fat fryer oil as an alternative fuel for the farm.
Read more about their Green Program.
I sourced this info from an article by Kathleen Furore in el Restaurante Mexicano, May-June 2009.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I wanted to point out a few things however. We no longer buy our chickens or pork from Gunthorp farms, We use Becker Lane organic pork (Iowa) and our chickens come from Swan Creek ( MIchigan) of Miller Farms( Indiana).