We Buy Local.

You Eat Fresh.

And Sustainable.

At Elk Creek Café + Aleworks we are committed to community, health, + sustainability.  We source as many of the ingredients for our Nouveau Dutchie Cuisine™ as possible from local + sustainable farms.  At present, all of the burger, chicken, cheese and most of the beef + eggs we serve are raised on local pasture.  All the pork + trout come from local sustainable farms.  Even our popular Alaskan Salmon is wild-caught by local fisherfolk.

We get 6 weekly shares of vegetables from our valued partners at Tait Farm Community Harvest and buy as much seasonal produce as we can from local farmers.  Our breads + buns come from Gemelli Bakery in State College.  We get dry beans, flour, oils, organic juices + natural sodas from Frankferd Farms Foods of western PA.  We bake our own desserts on premise and the coffee we serve is Organic + Fair Trade.

All our fryer oil goes into Smedley's biodiesel production.  All our kitchen waste goes into Kathy + Dan critters and compost.  All the glass, plastic, metal, paper + cardboard generated in our operation goes into the recycling bin.  Much of our thinking goes into making Elk Creek a Zero-Waste operation.