The appreciation that the Restaurant Eugene team has for history, the region and traditional foodways provides a certain heft and soul to what they offer. Allowing a local, house-made pantry to drive the menu, the approach is at once traditional and urbane. It is a ‘sense of place’ that one feels while reading the menu that begins the experience. Names of farmers and artisans are sprinkled about, paying homage to those who have done the work to get such delicious ingredients through the kitchen door. Once through that door, respect and care for the ingredients play as important a role as the preparation of them. The goal in the kitchen is to make absolutely as much of what is used from scratch as possible