DIG Restaurant

• Cuisine(s): American, Organic, Salads
  Hours: Sun-Thu 5pm-9pm, Mon-Sat 11am-2:30pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-10pm
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, Diners Club
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
  Alcohol: Beer/Wine
• Parking: Free, Lot Available

Description

These days, big cities like New York and Chicago are choked with farm-to-table restaurants, but this dining revolution - with its focus on fresh, local, organic eats - has been slow to come to South Florida. When it opened in June 2011, DIG (which stands for Doing It Green) promised to live up to this gastronomic ideal. Chef Wilson Wieggel is doing his part on the stove: He executes beautiful plates like starters of eggplant rollatini and chicken satay. Mains include vegetable lasagna - made with delicate layers of eggplant, squash, peppers, yams, and portobellos -- and heirloom pork, made with an Iowa-based, Eden Farms center-cut pork chop. Sides like raisin caper cauliflower and a 12-hour slow-roasted tomato are addictive. That said, the location (in a shopping plaza west of Delray's happening downtown restaurant scene) leaves DIG working to attract diners and catering to the retirees who live nearby (there's a salad bar). It's low on ambiance (dim lighting and hotel-ballroom chairs) but high on taste.