Circumstance is an intersection of cooks, craftspeople, farmers, gardeners, foragers, and fishermen. We offer you 100% locally sourced, organically grown ingredients because that's how we live and how we've become accustomed to understanding and enjoying food. Almost all of our ingredients come from within an hour drive of the restaurant, and everything but our sausage casings come from Maine. The depth of relationship to place and the quality of the food this supports are impossible to replicate with industrial ingredients.

We recognize our share of the responsibility every restaurant has in determining the kind of agriculture we collectively practice and, by extension, how our species cares for its current and future environment. Though it’s not always easy, we consistently revisit and reevaluate the impact that human activities are having on the foods we choose to work with. Thinking deeply and honestly about what’s going on in our land and seascapes tends to create more constraints than not, but we find these confrontations to be necessary and creatively challenging. They keep us honest and bring us current. We hope that the way we’re exploring what “the restaurant” looks like will stimulate conversation going forward, while still providing a delicious, interesting experience in the moment.

As a basic standard, we support an experience of food and place that is based on small-scale operations, direct relationships, and non-toxic production practices.

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