Fill your plate -- and your stomach -- while you mingle with some of the Mid-South's trendiest restaurateurs at the 4th Annual Project Green Fork Spring Supper.

Chickasaw Oaks Village, 3092 Poplar Ave., will host the event Sunday, May 6. Cocktails and appetizers start at 6 p.m., with supper at 6:30 p.m.

Proceeds benefit Project Green Fork, a Midtown-based non-profit dedicated to certifying and assisting Mid-South restaurants in reducing their environmental impact and in promoting local farms, foods and communities. 41 Mid-South restaurants are PGF-certified. One is featured each month as the PGF Restaurant of the Month on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard, Thursdays on Action News 5 at 10 p.m. (for the Restaurant Scorecard web page, click:  http://www.wmctv.com/category/98904/restaurant-scorecard).

A Tennessee restaurant should never score below a 90. Period. Any conscientious restaurant manager or fastidious health department inspector (they like to be called "environmentalists") will tell you that.

However, the fact is sometimes a restaurant's critical violation is really an environmentalist's judgment call.

Sometimes, they get it wrong.

Like the time a health department environmentalist slapped a Mexican restaurant with a critical violation for "improperly labeled" containers sitting on the pantry shelf with food items.

The containers' labels read "ajo" and "cebolla," respectively. 

"Garlic."  "Onion."

The restaurant's kitchen staff had labeled them in Spanish because, surprise, the staff speaks Spanish. You know, being a Mexican place and all.

But the environmentalist docked the establishment for not labeling the containers in English. 

Talented chefs, tasty entrees -- all going easy on the environment.

Sounds ripe for a regular hit on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard. Starting in February, it will be!

Next month, Action News 5 and Project Green Fork (http://projectgreenfork.org/) will team up to showcase the PGF Restaurant of the Month as a regular feature on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard.

Project Green Fork is a Midtown Memphis-based non-profit, dedicated to supporting Mid-South restaurateurs who go the extra mile in reducing their environmental impact and who promote local farms, foods and communities.