Despite the out-of-the-way location, on all three nighttime visits, when the Moss Room is open to the public, the 75 seats were filled. On two occasions the 15-seat private room, set behind by ...

Lundberg Design's Moss Room restaurant features locally sourced fare, a living wall, and green material choices in the basement of the California Academy of Sciences.

California-based studio Moss has developed a self-watering planter and lamp that lets users without any gardening experience grow a variety of plant types indoors.

Mehmet Turudu, Asfiye Turudu and Heddie Turudu (left to right) dine in the Moss Room, a new restaurant in the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, September 27, 2006.