Go Green When You Stay in Europe

"Increasingly in Europe's small hotels and bed & breakfasts, particularly those run by farms, serving organic food is becoming less and less a rarity. In the Welsh town of St Davids in February, the TYF Hotel became the first organic hotel certified by the Welsh Organic Scheme.

.. Nail joins the growing band of chefs who believe it's their responsibility to make their clients aware of the environmental impact of choosing food that isn't local. They would like diners who have been used for so long to eating whatever they want whenever they want to accept that in demanding produce that has to be imported from wherever else it's in season, they should factor in the flyer miles it costs to get the food onto their plates.

..So far, the move is limited to organic options on the hotel's Du Jour menu and an organic menu at breakfast. Claridge's has been surprised by the popularity of this breakfast instead of the regular one that's also available. Difficult to speculate on the feelings of their other guests, but the British at least feel strongly about breakfast and are not easy to push to change their habits so early in the day."

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