Savvy Insider - Superb Seafood Dinner, Superb Unique Setting
It was perfect in every respect. The setting - False Creek north, right on the water, a gorgeous sunset, later a rising moon and fireworks from the Celebration of Light. The venue - the world’s first sustainable floating dining room, capable of seating 12 people that is floating on a base of 1,675 plastic two-litre bottles built into its frame…Read full article »
Savvy Insider - A World First-Vancouver’s Green Dining Room
Every once in a while someone comes along with a vision - a vision that is so unique and amazing that you say “wow” what a wonderful idea. Meet Shannon Ronalds and Robert Clark. They are co-founders of the School of Fish Foundation. School of Fish is an organization that is focused on persuading culinary schools throughout the world to include a comprehensive sustainable seafood course as a requirement before their students graduate…Read full article »
Savvy Insider - Vancouver Acts and the World Takes Note
It’s nice when doing the right thing right gets noticed all over the world. And it is especially nice when it all started in Vancouver. But that’s exactly what has been happening in the last two weeks. The world is starting to take notice of the efforts by a group of dedicated people creating something that is unique, that is sustainable and will have a lasting impact on the world we all live in…Read full article »
Restaurant News - Floating Restaurant has an environmental message
VANCOUVER—Floating just offshore on False Creek, the Plastic Dining Room is no ordinary restaurant.
Conceived by Shannon Ronalds, co-founder of the charity School of Fish, the eating experience is around for just 60 days this summer…Read full article »
Where Canada - Eco-Friendly Dining
If the concepts of sustainable seafood and recycling float your boat, then this is the dining experience for you. Shannon Ronalds, co-founder of the School of Fish Foundation (www.schooloffishfoundation.org), dreamed up the Plastic Dining Room as a fundraiser for the organization, which teaches young chefs about using sustainable seafood. For 60 nights, ending in late September, Ronalds and chef Robert Clark of C Restaurant are serving elegant six-course seafood dinners with wine pairings on a raft moored beside the False Creek Yacht Club, all set against the spectacular backdrop of sailboats and kayaks gliding past as the sun sets behind Burrard Street Bridge…Read full article »