Peppino's, one of the first businesses to open in the newly minted Hourglass District, has touted its organic ingredients from the onset, granting owner Pietro "Pete" Priola the opportunity to field questions and calls from many an inquisitive patron. Priola took to Facebook to clarify: "We serve what's organic – what comes out of the ground that is grown organically – like our vegetables, which includes tomatoes, mixed greens and spinach.

Our chicken and meats are hormone-free and the chickens and the cows eat organically, but it's not necessarily an organic product. It's a natural, grass-fed, grass-finished product."Well, there you have it. Evidently, they'll also be putting in a garden in the coming months, and they'll be sourcing from the farmers market going in next door. The place, I have to say, certainly feels organic. It's pleasant and peasant, relaxed and rustic, much like Pizza Bruno down the street.