New York (CNN) — Chicken produced from cultivated cells is formally on the menu at Bar Crenn in San Francisco. But you may’t simply stroll in and order it.

About per week and a half in the past, the US Department of Agriculture gave two manufacturers, Upside Foods and Good Meat, approval to start producing and selling their cultivated chicken. Cultivated, or lab-grown, meat is developed from animal cells and grown in massive bioreactors with the assistance of vitamins like amino acids. This occurs in a manufacturing facility that appears lots like a brewery.

On Saturday, cultivated hen tempura might be on Bar Crenn’s menu, served with a burnt chili aioli and garnished with greens and edible flowers. Chef Dominique Crenn took meat off the restaurant’s menu in 2018 “because of the impact of factory farming on animals and the planet,” in accordance the the restaurant’s web site, however is comfy promoting cultivated hen.

Upside Foods held a contest on social media to find out who would have the ability to strive the product at Bar Crenn, and people winners will have the ability to dig on this weekend. They’ll every pay a symbolic $1 to strive the hen. Contest winners additionally get to tour Upside Food’s Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center.

After Saturday, there might be different alternatives to strive cultivated hen at Bar Crenn, however not instantly.

According to Upside Foods, there’ll might be month-to-month dinner companies that includes the product beginning later this 12 months. Those who wish to strive it may possibly join forward of time on the Bar Crenn web site.

Good Meat can be planning to first serve its product in a restaurant, although it hasn’t revealed a date but. It’s working with chef and restaurateur José Andrés to convey the merchandise to his Washington, DC, restaurant China Chilcano.

The Bar Crenn debut follows a sequence of approvals granted from the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration, that are collectively regulating the nascent cultivated meat business.

In November, the FDA issued a “no questions” letter to Upside Foods, basically saying that it had no additional questions concerning the security of the product and so thought-about it protected for consumption. Good Meat bought an analogous letter in March. Then, in June, each corporations bought USDA approval for his or her labels, which should say “cell-cultivated.”

And late final month, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service authorized Upside Foods’ and Good Meat’s purposes for a “grant of inspection.” Those forms of purposes “are approved following a rigorous process, which includes assessing a firm’s food safety system,” in accordance with an FSIS spokesperson. The grants gave each corporations the inexperienced gentle to maneuver ahead with gross sales.

Because cell-cultured meat is developed from animal cells, it’s not thought-about vegetarian by Upside Foods or Good Meat.

But it may be appealing to ethical or religious vegetarians, as a result of it may be produced with out hurting animals (each corporations tout the product as slaughter-free), or to those that are vegetarians for environmental causes. Cultivated meat at scale may use far much less land and water than standard agriculture, specialists say.