by: Aaron Holbrook (WiscNews)

Mayville restaurant became the first Blue Zones Project Approved and its achievement was lauded with a ribbon cutting and social hour Tuesday.

NOLA North Grille, 45 N. Main St., has added plant-based menu items, prohibits smoking outside of the restaurant and will install bike racks. In addition, there will be a weekly Wine @ 5 social event Tuesdays from 5–5:30 p.m., featuring complimentary Blue Zones-inspired hors d’oeuvres.

Blue Zones Project principles are based on lifestyles in Blue Zones, areas of the world where people live longer with less chronic disease and higher quality of life. The changes made by NOLA will help people in the community live by those principles according to Leslie Covell Hershberger, Community Program Manager for Blue Zones Project Dodge County.

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