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13 Best Organic Hotel Restaurants in North America

Umito01/11/2025

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Source: 1 WeHo Hotel

For some people, spending time away from home means carefully crafted meal plans through the window. For others who follow specific diets such as a plant-based dietit can be difficult to find restaurants or takeaways that meet your needs. These 15 organic hotel restaurants show that you don’t have to sacrifice quality or nutrition when you’re on vacation — and it’s always delicious!

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1 kitchen

Source: 1 West Hollywood Hotel

For meals at 1 kitchen at the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, California, an on-site 100% organic garden and beehive add natural flavor. Additionally, 1 Kitchen serves farm-to-table, sustainably sourced ingredients and offers a number of zero-waste dishes, as well as biodynamic and organic wines. Hotel 1 in West Hollywood is LEED Silver certified with an Energy Star score of 95, has CO2 offsets and uses wood from fallen trees in some of its building materials.

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Essence

Essence at the Palms Hotel & Spa in Miami, Florida, offers a seasonal, farm-to-table menu featuring ingredients purchased from local farmers. Additionally, Essensia’s cocktails are made with organic ingredients and it is a registered Ocean Friendly restaurant with the Surfrider Foundation.

The Palms Hotel & Spa has several green initiatives as part of its “Inspired by Nature” program, including striving to be 100% plastic-free, arranging beach clean-ups, and using walk-in showers and sinks. low flow.

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Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun

Dining options at Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun in Mexico, focuses on reducing waste, encouraging chefs to get creative. Menus include dishes like Vegetable Soup made from sautéed vegetable stems and Salmon, which includes an orange puree made from leftover orange peels. Additionally, the resort launched its Playa Green environmental sustainability program in 2018, which focuses on water and energy reduction. It also launched an ESG committee in 2020 to integrate sustainability into its governance structure.

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Jam restaurant

Source: 1 Central Park Hotel

Jam restaurant 1 Hotel Central Park uses organic and local, farm-to-table ingredients in its seasonally inspired menus. The restaurant even includes a list of its New York, New Jersey and Ohio growing partners on its website. 1 Hotel Central Park is LEED certified, uses LED lighting, has HVAC systems with energy recovery and other environmentally friendly amenities.

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JORY Restaurant

JORY Restaurant by the Allison Inn and Spa in Oregon promises farm-to-table dining with organic ingredients sourced from the restaurant’s garden and greenhouse. JORY offers seasonal menus to account for ingredient availability, and even its wines are eco-friendly, biodynamic, organic, or sustainably produced. The Allison Inn and Spa is LEED Gold certified, uses no plastic bottles, uses eco-friendly laundry and cleaning practices, and has a “green eco roof” on its west wing, among other things green initiatives.

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Lucy Restaurant and Bar

Source: Courtesy of Lucy Restaurant and Bar

Lucy Restaurant and Bar The Bardessono Hotel & Spa in California offers menus created with “fresh ingredients selected daily from Bardessono’s California Certified Organic Garden,” according to its website. The restaurant’s field-to-fork culinary philosophy also emphasizes local and regional ingredients. The Bardessono Hotel & Spa is LEED Platinum certified, highlights low water consumption, uses recycled or reused building materials wherever possible and has a geothermal heat pump system.

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Olivella and vine

Olivella and vine The restaurant at the Ojai Valley Inn in California offers an award-winning farm-to-table menu featuring cuisine “harvested and inspired by” local growers, according to its website. The inn spans 220 acres, including an organic herb garden and 20 types of fruit trees. The inn also uses responsibly sourced seafood, following the guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. Additionally, the inn has several eco-friendly partnerships, offers paraben-, sulfate-, and cruelty-free amenities, and implements a low-flow, drip irrigation system.

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Restaurant Le Corbeau

Restaurant Le Corbeau at the Stanford Inn in California offers a 100% vegan, plant-based menu. Some of the restaurant’s ingredients are sourced from local vendors, but the rest comes from the Stanford Inn’s certified California organic farm located on property. In addition to its organic garden, the Stanford Inn has hosted the Environmental Leadership Field School since 2012 through a partnership with GROW BIOINTENSIVE, which teaches undergraduate students about sustainable agriculture.

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Restaurante Celajes

Restaurante Celajes of the Belmar Hotel in Costa Rica draws inspiration from Costa Rican agricultural traditions with its selection of ingredients. The food is locally sourced or picked from Restaurante Celajes’ organic farm and garden. The restaurant also uses “regenerative dining,” which uses natural pest control, maximizes crop variety and uses water conservation on small-scale plots. The Belmar Hotel is a certified carbon neutral hotel, partner of ECOHEROES for a plastic footprint compensation program and uses non-toxic biodegradable soaps, detergents and cosmetics.

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Rose Tavern

Source: Courtesy of Lake House on Canandaigua

Rose Tavern The restaurant near the Lakehouse on Canandaigua in New York works with local farmers and vendors to source ingredients and develop its seasonal menu. The Lakehouse has a vegetable and herb garden, uses geothermal energy, has natural and plant-based amenities, and has eliminated single-use plastic bottles on-site. The hotel also monitors its energy to ensure a significant portion comes from renewable sources.

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Sea glass

Sea Glass Restaurant in Inn by the sea The Maine menu features responsibly harvested seafood as well as many vegan or vegetarian options. Inn by the Sea is a member of Beyond Green, a collection of sustainable hotels in 18 countries, and 100% of the inn’s electricity is clean and renewable from a solar farm. The spa addition is specifically LEED Silver certified. Additionally, Inn by the Sea partners with the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland and welcomes adoptable dogs on property.

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Terra Kitchen

Source: SCP Hotels

Terra Kitchen at the SCP Redmond Hotel in Oregon, he crafts a changing menu using ingredients sourced from local organic and regenerative farms. Additional ingredients come from Terra Kitchen’s rooftop garden. The SCP Redmond Hotel is EarthCheck Bronze certified, uses low-flow toilets and showerheads, and eliminates single-use plastics on property.

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Tide+

Source: Hyatt

Tide+, the restaurant at Hyatt at Olive 8 in Seattle offers diners “ethically sourced and consciously produced dishes” from local vendors. More than 50 percent of its food is grown or produced locally and more than 60 percent is sustainably harvested. The menu is more than 50 percent gluten-free and the menu is seasonal. The Hyatt at Olive 8 is a LEED Silver certified hotel, has a green cleaning policy and is designed to use more than 30% less water than a typical hotel.

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