Restaurants for Relief: September 27

By JULIETTE ROSSANT Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 27, 2005, to eat out at restaurants participating in Restaurants for Relief. According to Share Our Strength (SOS), already 800 restaurants are participating, with more joining everyday. SOS allows individual restaurants to decide how much they earmark for donations. Some restaurants are giving 10% of the evening's revenue, others as high as 100%. Of the funds raised, 100% will go to support community grantees, specifically food banks in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. Super chefs participating include: Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken at Border Grill (Santa Monica), Border Grill (Las Vegas), and Ciudad Norman Van Aken at Norman's (Miami), Norman's (Orlando), and Norman's (Los Angeles) Alain Ducasse at Alain Ducasse at the Essex House Bobby Flay at Bolo, Mesa Grill New York, and Mesa Grill Las Vegas Thomas Keller at Bouchon and per se Joachim Splichal at Patina, Cafe Pinot, Patinette, Nick & Stef's Steakhouse, Zucca, and Pinot Bistro, Pinot Hollyood, and Pinot Provence, and Pinot Brasserie (Las Vegas) Bradley Ogden at Lark Creek Walnut Creek Nobu Matsuhisa at Nobu, Nobu Next Door, and Nobu Fifty Seven Tom Colicchio at Craft and Gramercy Tavern Todd English at Olives Boston, Olives New York, and Olives Washington How do diners participate? That's easy! Just enter a zipcode to find locally participating restaurants: click here. If you can't make dinner, you can still make a donation (click here). Share Our Strength (SOS), OpenTable.com, and Windows of Hope have organized this nationwide event to raise money to support SOS's Hurrican Relief Fund (formerly the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, renamed in anticipation of Rita and other potential hurricanes for the remainder of this season). Other partners include the Council of Independent Restaurants of America (CIRA), Food and Wine Magazine, the Anthony Spinazzola Foundation, and the James Beard Foundation. The gala organizing committee includes Daimler Chrysler, David and Diane Bradt, DLA Piper Rudnick Cary Gray, Jay McGonigle and the Corporate Executive Board, and Jeanne and Steve Robinson. Press releases: OpenTable.com Windows of Hope Previous articles: SOS: Katrina Benefit SOS: Baking from the Heart [complete Hurricane Katrina coverage] Technorati Tags: superchefblog, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, hurricane, Katrina, Rita, charity, philanthropy --> back to superchefblog