GIG HARBOR RESTAURANT SHIFTS FOCUS TO "FRESH AND LOCAL" >>>

How's that Byrds' song go? "To everything there is a season ..."

Ah, yes, it's common knowledge that this famous tune refers to things having their own place in time and that things do, in fact, change. 

General Manager Brendan Paul at Green.House in Gig Harbor can attest to that. In 2009, Paul worked as assistant manager and bartender at Sip Restaurant, an upscale wine bar and restaurant operated out of the same digs that now house Green.House.

Well, things changed at Green.House too, didn't they? When Green.House first opened last year, a big claim to fame for the restaurant (besides the excellent tasting food and fair prices) was that a large percentage of the produce used was organic.

As often happens in life, changes were recently made at Green.House and the focus was taken off of serving organic products. This is especially tricky as the Weekly Volcano published a review of Green.House on March 10 that failed to reflect this change. Jason and I dined at Green.House in late December and again in January. Our review arrived at  Weekly Volcano headquarters in February and ran March 10. The food was still organic (or 70 percent organic) when we ate there. By the time the story ran, it was not.

Paul explained the very recent changes in a phone conversation this week: "The people that cared about organic produce were disappointed it wasn't 100 percent organic. Most people didn't seem to care at all." Paul shared that a month or so ago Green.House went from 70 percent organic to simply focusing on fresh and local.

As the current menu online shows, organic items are still offered (mixed greens, tomatoes, baby spinach, romaine hearts), there just aren't as many as before and the percentage of organic product used is no longer being tracked. Charlie's Produce, a major supplier in the region, is a purveyor of locally farmed produce, and they supply Green.House with its veggies.

Bottom line - the food is still fresh and local, just not necessarily organic.

And we whole-heartedly apologize for the mistake.