Green Building Elements

Restaurants here in San Francisco open, and close, almost as often as the fog rolls in so we don’t usually pay an extreme amount of our precious attention to another restaurant du jour. Mixt Greens recently opened but they don’t qualify for new kid on the block status nonetheless they do deserve green props. Thus I direct my attention to their third installment of the Mixt Greens empire.

This third location, located in SoMa, just opened and used zero-VOC paints to improve the air quality, and I could definitely smell the food and not the fumes. They even used recycled paint to cover their ceiling. I didn’t find any bamboo or cork for the flooring but something better as they used an unfinished concrete floor with 50% flyash content. That high flyash content along with the fact that the floor will last a long time (plus it’s easy to clean) makes that choice a no-brainer.

Although the dining area contains a slew of other green items (FSC certified wood, recycled steel, 3- compartment trash station) I most enjoyed the table tops made from 100% raw materials derived from recycled household materials such as milk and detergent bottles.

I won’t go into their menu with locally sourced, mostly organic, free range, items but they do promote a mostly sustainable philosophy. If I got on their case for anything, perhaps it would be the lack of a bike rack anywhere near the eatery or the fact that they carry Coke with some of their organic drink choices. How abut carrying the Mexican Coke in the glass bottles with real cane sugar instead of the GMO corn syrup? Maybe that will change but hopefully I’ll be seeing the fourth installment of Mixt Greens soon.

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