Vancouver Sun - Floating plastic restaurant highlights fisheries crisis
It’s called the Plastic Dining Room and it’s a floating restaurant docked at the False Creek Yacht Club. Opening July 21, it floats on 1,700 plastic two-litre bottles and will seat 12 people nightly for just 60 days. And if you’re thinking the food’s going to be mediocre, think again. The multi-course meal will be cooked and donated by the award-winning C restaurant. Wines are included. In fact, almost everything is donated, recycled, reclaimed or done on a volunteer basis… Read full article »
Tasting Table - Road Food 2011
Forget the booze cruise: Vancouver native Shannon Ronalds has completely upended sea-bound dining with his floating restaurant, the School of Fish Foundation. Constructed out of recycled materials (including a floor made from plastic bottles), the dining room was built to help educate about sustainable seafood… Read full article »
Plataforma Arquitectura - Comedor Flotante
Este comedor flotante fue diseñado para un evento de caridad realizado por la School of Fish Foundation en Vancouver durante el verano. Lo más asombroso de este espacio semi-carrado es que se encuentra flotando sobre 1,700 botellas de plástico. El objetivo consiste en plantear una solución plasmada en arquitectura para los miles de residuos plásticos que dan vuelta por los océanos… Read full article »
Seafood Business Magazine - Behind the Line: Hope Floats
Shannon Ronalds is a man with a dream for the future of the seafood industry: to keep it alive. The Vancouver, British Columbia resident has been troubled that more chefs worldwide aren’t open to learning about sustainable seafood choices… Read full article »
Fast Company - The Floating Dining Room Will Change the Way You Eat Fish
TakePart has already lamented how difficult it can be to find sustainable seafood when heading out for a nice meal on the town. It seems like diners who want to do the right thing by Mother Nature—and still enjoy great fish—need to haul along a binder full of charts and fact sheets to make sure they’re making the ethical selection.
One group of Vancouver seafood lovers wants you to be confident in your menu choices, even if you don’t have a doctorate in marine biology. That means taking the pressure off the diner, and putting it on the kitchen.
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Take Part - All Aboard the Sustainable Floating Restaurant
The restaurant has raised almost $100,000 in support of the School of Fish Foundation, which aims to incorporate sustainable seafood programs into culinary schools worldwide.
“We hope that after the first generation of chefs graduate from culinary school armed with a full knowledge of sustainable fishing, then we’ll soon start to see a major shift in what’s being served on people’s plates,” foundation founder Shannon Ronalds told CNN. Read full article »
CNN - Eco-friendly floating diner set for marinas worldwide
Eco-friendly floating restaurants serving sustainable seafood are on the menu for marinas around the world, in a bid to tackle the crisis caused by commercial over-fishing.
The first of these fundraising rafts, the “SS Plastic Dining Room,” launched earlier this year in Vancouver, Canada, and now plans are afoot for a fleet of similar floating restaurants in major world cities including Auckland, Cape Town and London. Read full article »
Vancouver Magazine - Shannon Ronalds’ Floating Restaurant Raises Funds For Seafood Sustainability
Tethered to the seawall, a 12-person restaurant raft is the launchpad for one man’s culinary revolution Read full article »
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 »