In San Francisco, a few lucky taste testers won a contest to be among the first in America to eat cultivated chicken at a restaurant. After paying a symbolic $1, winners of an Upside Foods social media contest dined on the lab-grown delicacy, which was served tempura-ed with burnt chili aioli, at Bar Crenn. Notably, the San Francisco hotspot stopped serving meat in 2018 because of the negative impacts of factory farming.
Upside Foods plans on running similar contests on a monthly basis as it scales up production. Interested parties can sign up on Bar Crenn’s website, according to CNN.
Good Meat, the only other producer in the US to have received approval from US regulatory agencies, is planning a similar introduction at Washington, DC restaurant China Chilcano.