About Us
The Clemente Family hailing from Bari, Italy has a long history of preparing traditional foods. Chef Gordon Clement was immersed in the world of cooking from a very young age, both at his fathers restaurants and in daily life in the Clement home. Gordon has taken his traditional Italian roots and training and combined it with his passion for local, organic and carefully prepared natural foods.
Hailing from a fourth generation Astoria salmon fishing family with Croatian roots, Lisa Clement brings a passion for health and sustainability to Clemente's. Her background in ancient medicine and food based cures combined with the passion for "slow foods" and beautiful presentation brings a contemporary flare to Clemente's.
Together we strive to generate global awareness by providing healthy, local, seasonal, wild foods, reducing our carbon footprint and making a difference within our community.
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
Clemente's is committed to reducing our environmental impact on the planet in order to protect the earth and leave the least mark possible. We are passionate in purchasing products that are produced as close to our restaurant as possible. We do business with people who are committend to the goal of a healthy and renewable food source. We purchase produce from local farmers, serve only fresh wild fish from our local amazing waters, use mugs and tea cups produced locally and feature only local art eliminating any need for shipping of goods. We use only compostable "To Go" containers and serve soup to go in mason jars. We ask our guests to compost their boxes and reuse their jars. Unfortunately, some products do need to be shipped from Portland and we are committed to using Food Services of America because of there commitment to selling Northwest sustainable products and their huge strives to offer a vast array of local organic products. Their SNOR (Sustainable Northwest Organic Regional) program has been a great undertaking and we are proud of their commitment to supporting this vital industry.
Saving Energy: Running a restaurant uses a large amount of natural resources. We are disturbed by this and constantly making efforts to reduce our use of these resources. We leave our lights off during the day whenever possible, we purchase low energy bulbs, turn our kitchen equipment pilots off every day at closing, unplug all cords when not in use and turn off all lights at the breaker.
Biofuel: We use only rice oil for deep frying which is a prized oil to convert to biofuel. 100% of our oil is used for biofuel.
Recycling: We go to huge lengths to train our staff to recycle even the smallest bit of plastic, glass, metal. We are proud to say our recycling area is much larger than our garbage area and continue to strive to make both areas as small as possible.
Your choice to dine with us contributes to our passion to provide local, seasonal, and sustainably grown food. We understand the environmental and health impact of deciding what to eat, when to eat it, and how it is grown and your contribution today supports many layers of our local food chain.
Please join in our local effort to create global change.
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Astoria, OR 97103
