{"id":441,"date":"2005-01-01T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=441"},"modified":"2005-01-01T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T16:20:13","slug":"restaurants_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/restaurants_for\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants for Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few people in the world who haven’t <\/em>been affected by the cataclysmic events in Southeast Asia.  Vancouver has a rich South Asian heritage, and it’s only fitting that citizens here are pitching in to help.  This Thursday a group of restaurants is donating 25 percent of their lunch and dinner food receipts to the Red Cross.  So make Thursday your day to go out for dinner and patronize the places listed in the following press release.  Filling your belly will help provide food and shelter for those less fortunate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

WILD RICE SPEARHEADS RESTAURANTS FOR RELIEF<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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(Vancouver, BC) \u2013 \u201cWe just wanted to do something to help,\u201d says Wild Rice co-owner Andrew Wong of his and partner Tom Poirier\u2019s decision to raise money for the Tsunami Relief Fund.  <\/span>\u201cWe decided that the easiest way for us to help was to donate a portion of our receipts to the Canadian Red Cross,\u201d says Poirier.  <\/span>\u201cFrom there it was a matter of \u2018who else can we include?\u2019  <\/span>We called a few friends and colleagues and quickly came up with nine other restaurants willing to participate. Everyone we called was enthusiastic about the idea and eager to get involved.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Thursday, January 6, 2005 <\/strong>has been designated Restaurants for Relief<\/em> day by the 12 participants with their donating 25% of their total food bills to disaster relief.  <\/span>\u201cThursday is generally a busy day in restaurants, so we are hoping to raise a significant amount, \u201c says Wong.  <\/span>The donation applies to the food portion of both lunch and dinner checks. \u201cWe\u2019ll consolidate the donations and deliver it to the Red Cross on the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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For one participant, Montri Rattanraj of Montri\u2019s Thai Restaurant, the event has a special meaning.  <\/span>He had been visiting family in the south of <\/span>Thailand <\/span>and had only just left the country a few hours before the tsunami hit.  <\/span>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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Participants are:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Banana Leaf                       <\/span>820 W. Broadway                 <\/span>604.731.6333                          <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Banana Leaf on Denman         <\/span>1096 Denman Street              <\/span>604.683.3333<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Bistro Pastis                          <\/span><\/span>2153 W.4th<\/sup> Avenue               <\/span>604.731.5020<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fiction                                 <\/span>3162 W. Broadway                 <\/span>604.736.7576<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lucy Mae Brown                     <\/span>862 Richards St.                     <\/span>604.899.9199<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Montri\u2019s Thai Restaurant         <\/span>3629 W. Broadway                 <\/span>604.738.9888<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rubina Tandoori                    <\/span>1962 Kingsway Avenue            <\/span>604.874.3621<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tamarind                             <\/span>1626 W. Broadway                 <\/span>604.733.5335<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tangerine                             <\/span><\/span>1685 Yew St.                        <\/span>604.739.4677<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Wild Rice                              <\/span>117 W. Pender                      <\/span>604.642.2882<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Provence Mediterranean Grill 4473 W.10th Avenue 604.222.1980<\/span><\/div>\n
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Provence Marinaside 1177 Marinaside Crescent      604.681.4144<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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