Restaurants for Relief January 6, 2005

[UPDATE Jan 04, 2005: The number of restaurants has increased from 12 to 14 with the addition of Elixir and Monsoon. Please see the Restaurants for Relief event page over on Urban Vancouver for this and future updates]

In addition to donating to a charity like Unicef or the Red Cross, Barb and I will try to participate this Thursday. In the meantime, if anybody knows of any other restaurant or food related relief efforts, let us know and I will post it there.

From the wild rice Vancouver site, THURSDAY JANUARY 6th is RESTAURANTS FOR RELIEF DAY:

WILD RICE SPEARHEADS RESTAURANTS FOR RELIEF JANUARY 6th

(Vancouver, BC) – “We just wanted to do something to help,” says Wild Rice co-owner Andrew Wong of his and partner Tom Poirier’s decision to raise money for the Tsunami Relief Fund. “We decided that the easiest way for us to help was to donate a portion of our receipts to the Canadian Red Cross,” says Poirier. “From there it was a matter of ‘who else can we include?’ We called a few friends and colleagues and quickly came up with 11 other restaurants willing to participate. Everyone we called was enthusiastic about the idea and eager to get involved.”

Thursday, January 6, 2005 has been designated Restaurants for Relief day by the 12 participants with their donating 25% of their total food bills to disaster relief.
“Thursday is generally a busy day in restaurants, so we are hoping to raise a significant amount, “ says Wong. The donation applies to the food portion of both lunch and dinner checks. “We’ll consolidate the donations and deliver it to the Red Cross on the next day.”

For one participant, Montri Rattanraj of Montri’s Thai Restaurant, the event has a special meaning. He had been visiting family in the south of Thailand and had only just left the country a few hours before the tsunami hit. Thankfully none of his family was affected by the disaster but he has friends and colleagues working in many of the resort hotels that have been destroyed.

Participants in Restaurants for Relief are:
Banana Leaf - 820 W. Broadway 604.731.6333
Banana Leaf on Denman - 1096 Denman Street 604.683.3333
Bistro Pastis - 2153 W.4th Avenue 604.731.5020
Fiction - 3162 W. Broadway 604.736.7576
Lucy Mae Brown - 862 Richards St. 604.899.9199
Montri’s Thai Restaurant - 3629 W. Broadway 604.738.9888
Rubina Tandoori - 1962 Kingsway Avenue 604.874.3621
Provence Marinaside - 1177 Marinaside Crescent 604.681.4144
Provence Mediterranean Grill - 4473 West 10th Avenue 604.222.1980
Tamarind - 1626 W. Broadway 604.733.5335
Tangerine - 1685 Yew St. 604.739.4677
Wild Rice - 117 W. Pender 604.642.2882


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