Eat Smart!, Ontario's Healthy Eating Program, offers an "Award of Excellence" to Ontario restaurants, schools and workplaces that meet exceptional standards in all of the following areas:

• Healthy menu choices
• A tobacco free environment
• High standards in food safety

When you see the Eat Smart! logo (a white apple with a green leaf, in a red box) you know that that you will find:

• A variety of healthy menu choices on the menu and by request
• Staff certified in safe food handling
• A proven track record in safe food handling and sanitation
• 100% smoke free environment (no convictions under tobacco legislation in the past 12 months and do not sell tobacco products)

Benefits for Eat Smart! Award Winners include the following:

• Listing on the provincial Eat Smart! web site
• Listing on Healthy Living Niagara
• Listing on Niagara Region website
• Listing on TREZONE.ca

Additional Benefits for Award Winning Restaurants include the following:

• Being showcased in the Niagara Region's Eat Smart! Dining Guide.
• Local advertising to promote the program.

Niagara's 2009-2010 Eat Smart Award Winning Restaurants

Eat Smart! Ontario’s Healthy School Program

Eat Smart! Workplace Cafeteria Program. Click on Award Programs and then Eat Smart Cafeteria.

For more information, or to obtain an Eat Smart! Dining Guide, contact Niagara Region Public Health at (905) 688-8248 or 1-888-505-0674 ext.7308.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the Canadian Cancer Society are provincial partners in this program.