Aroma Thyme Bistro

Reasons to love this place and go out of your way to go here:
- Every fish here is a Monterey Bay Seafood Watch "Best Choice"
- The shrimp and seafood are equally eco-friendly
- Every meat is pastured / grass-fed
- The menu confidently offers both meatloaf and Thai curry shrimp, and delivers on both and seemingly everything in between.
- They offer a vegan brownie so much better than any vegan brownie you've ever had or imagined that you almost don't believe them when they say it's vegan; served with a peanut-butter-brownie-vanilla ice cream that would make a fine dessert on its own.

To boot, it's a Certified Green Restaurant, rated by the Green Restaurant Association.  I've never heard of this before: per the description on the menu, it's one of less than 300 such restos in the US, and the certification means being strictly audited for the environmental impact of its water usage, its takeout containers, its post-consumer products, etc.  Put another way: it's the sort of place with tea-tree oil soap in the bathroom.

Aroma Thyme seems kind of out of the way and it's in a town that hovers in some undecided middle between quaint and dilapidated, but I really liked it.  Came with friends and they really liked it too.  I'll be back when I'm in the area.

A quirky bistro with friendly staff, a large beer selection, great wine list and food menu full of unique and tasty dishes and lots of vegetarian and vegan options that strives to be environmentally friendly, and use locally-sourced, organic ingredients.

Their thin crust pizzas have the most impressively thin crust I've ever had with the perfect amount of crunch!

Prices cater to visitors, rather than the suffering local community.

A great place to come before or after a show at Ellenville's Shadowland Theater.

The menu here has everything from meat to vegan.  I love the tuna app, the bread basket is always nice, and the pizzas are creative and good.  ON Sundays they have a burger special, whenever I'm there on a Sunday I do that, its very good.  Normally the burgers are around $17, pricey for a burger and the area, but they are actually worth it, the meat is good and generous, the toppings are quite creative.

They don't serve Diageo products here (something about that little lobby group called ALEC), which means they have tons of smaller mom and pop brands.  Its always an adventure to go here and the bar staff knows a lot about both the alcohol and the wine list and are happy to help you determine what exactly you want today.