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UPDATED: Seattle Restaurants Rallying for Japan, Part II

The list keeps growing and growing.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Mar 18, 2011 at 09:15AM 0 Comments

Kushibar in Belltown is one of many Seattle restaurants taking part in Red, White, Unite for Japan.

The outpouring of support from Seattle’s food community has been commendable, to say the least. Earlier in the week I posted a roundup of Seattle restaurants donating to Red Cross and other relief organizations. Since then, the number of businesses lending a hand has grown considerably. Which means it’s time for an update.

A whole huge crop signed on with Red, White, Unite. On April 6 participants are handing over ten percent of their sales to Peace Winds America. Those participants include Heather and Scott Staples’s trio of eateries, Quinn’s, Uneeda Burger, and Restaurant Zoë. In Belltown there’s also Kushibar and Umi Sake House. On Capitol Hill, The Saint, Poppy, The Honey Hole, Tidbit Bistro, and Tango.

And that’s just naming a few of ‘em folks—there’s about 20 more in this most recent batch of contributors, sprinkled throughout the city (and Puget Sound). Here’s the full list of Red, White, Unite restaurants.

UPDATED 3/22 KOMO News brings word of a bevy of West Seattle restaurants donating to Peace Winds Japan and KnK International on Sunday, March 27.

If you don’t want to have to sit down to help, all Metropolitan Market coffee shops are donating any tips to Save the Children’s Children in Emergency fund. That’s happening through March 21.

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UPDATED: Seattle Restaurants Rallying for Japan

A simple way to help: swing into these spots, where the bill benefits relief organizations.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Mar 14, 2011 at 11:50AM 12 Comments

Eat at King’s Hardware in Ballard, boost relief efforts in Japan.

Nosh is keeping its ears to the ground for local eateries doing their part to help Japan. Here’s what we’ve got so far; if you know of more, tell us in the comments box and we’ll update accordingly.

Oddfellows is donating one hundred percent of its sales profits (wow) from Tuesday, March 15, to International Medical Corps. Linda D’s other hot spots, King’s Hardware, Smith, and Linda’s, are doing the same.

Blue C Sushi is donating ten percent of sales from Monday and Tuesday of this week to the American Red Cross, as is Boom Noodle.

Japanese grill Issian in Wallingford is handing over all sales from miso soup.

Fresh Bistro will put five percent of sales from this week toward the cause.

Picnic is hosting a wine-tasting fundraiser Thursday, March 17, from 5:30-7:30, says phinneywood.com. A $20 tasting fee is encouraged; that, along with some of the shop’s sales from the day, will benefit ShelterBoxUSA.org.

On March 31 the very fun Hajime Sato will lead a sushi rolling class at Dish It Up! in Ballard; registration costs are $85, with $20 of it going to Red Cross.

Through March 19, five percent of proceeds at Fuji Bakery are benefitting Seattle Japan Relief.

Kisaku, Sushi Kappo Tamura, Rover’s, Chiso, I Love Sushi, and Ethan Stowell Restaurants have signed on with Red, White, Unite, a booster for Peace Winds America. On April 6 these participants will entrust ten percent of sales.

Stowell also took to Twitter to say he’d “donate ALL proceeds from cookbook sales for the rest of the year.”

Bai Tong in Redmond is joining the cause on March 19.

On March 21 from 5-10, Boat Street Cafe is throwing a fundraiser for the family of restaurant employee Sachie Mikawa. $25 entrance donation.

In that same spirit, Mosh Moshi is giving fifty percent of revenues from a benefit on Tuesday, March 22 to its sushi chef, Nic Miura, and his family.

You can drop off monetary donations at Uwajimaya.

Over the weekend Lisa Nakamura and her crew at Allium on Orcas Island also gave tenners to the Red Cross, and Street Treats tweeted they, too, have donated to the org. Cantinetta held a benefit dinner on Sunday.

Nice showing, Seatown.

Note: You can always text REDCROSS to 90999 to make your own $10 donation.

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One for the Books: 826 Benefit Dinner at Palace Kitchen

Talk to Tom Robbins, eat, help 826.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Feb 24, 2011 at 03:26PM 0 Comments

Do good with Dave Eggers this April.

Yes, Grant Achatz is coming to the Palace Ballroom.

That’s very cool.

But if you want the most bang for your Palace Ballroom buck, it’s hard to argue with the 826 Seattle dinner. It’s especially hard if you’ve had the experience of attending an 826 benefit breakfast and crying fat, salty tears into your scrambled eggs while listening to abnormally cute children tell tales of story-making with their mentors (hypothetically speaking, of course).

Founded by writer Dave Eggers, 826 is a network of nine tutoring centers where volunteers are paired up with kids to help them learn to write but also to just hang out with them and be part of their lives. On Friday, April 29 the Seattle chapter holds its annual fund-raising dinner at the place where everyone in Seattle holds everything, at Palace Ballroom. It’s $200 per person.

Dave Eggers will be there. Author Myla Goldberg will be there. Famously reclusive loonbird Tom Robbins will be there. You can dork on out while doing good. And eating!

Tickets go on sale March 16, but if you want to reserve early send a message to this email address: michelle@826seattle.org.

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Pink Door’s Good Cause

What does a legendary restaurateur do when she’s diagnosed with MS? Throws a party, of course.

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Jun 07, 2010 at 09:00AM 0 Comments

Since I need to maintain my restaurant reviewer’s anonymity I can’t go to restaurant parties, dang it. Don’t tell anyone, but here’s one I’m seriously considering breaking my rule for.

Jacqueline Roberts is impresario-slash-diva in residence—“owner” is just too small a word for this force of nature—at The Pink Door, the cult-favorite cabaret and pasta house tucked into a basement behind an unmarked pink door in Post Alley. The Parisian flea market explosion of decor…the pasta broccoli…the fact that at any moment a trapeze artist might soar over your head…the city’s most glorious outdoor deck…that’s the Pink Door.

But then you already know that. The Door is a Seattle classic that needs no introduction, its owner Jackie an industry visionary.

Which is why it came as such a shock when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the auto-immune disorder that is mysteriously more common in the Pacific Northwest than other parts of the world.

Retire to her sickbed? Not Jackie. Committed to finding a cure, she’s determined to raise money for MS research the best way she knows how.

She’s cookin’ up a party.

So come one, come all to the Festa per la Salute—Party for Health—on Sunday, June 27 from 5pm to 9pm. For $100 per person enjoy a feast of fresh Northwest seafood, the Door’s famous lasagne, grilled veggies, and wines, along with the usual cacophony of trapeze artists, stilt walkers, jazz musicians, accordion players, modern dancers, prosciutto slicers, beauties passing oysters… and of course those knockout views of Elliott Bay from the deck.

Medical professionals will also be in attendance to discuss their studies—some of which will benefit directly from this event. Seventy percent of the proceeds from Roberts’ party will go to groundbreaking research at The University at Buffalo, which has shown promising results in halting the progression of the disease.

See you there.

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Dine Out to Support Haiti on January 24

Seattle restaurants are signing on to donate a portion of the evening’s profits to disaster relief in the Caribbean country.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jan 18, 2010 at 04:00PM 3 Comments

Quinn’s will give a portion of profits earned on Sunday, January 24th to relief efforts in Haiti.

Seattle resident Monica Mendoza was making a donation to NetHope, wishing she could give more, when the idea came to her. She started calling local restaurants and asking if they’d be willing to donate a portion of profits earned on Sunday, January 24 to relief efforts in Haiti. (Restos can pick NetHope or the charity of their choice.)

Each restaurant will decide individually how much it can contribute, Mendoza says Dinette on Capitol Hill has committed to giving away 10 percent, while Belltown’s Restaurant Zoe is offering up 25. Quinn’s, Le Gourmand, and La Rustica are also on board according to Mendoza—we’ll keep the list updated as more places sign on. Meantime, feel free to lobby your favorite eatery to join in, restaurants should contact tastyfeast@gmail.com to get on the list.


To see a list of local bars contributing to cause, click HERE, and for a list of upcoming A&E fundraisers, HERE.

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Eat Food, Help Haiti

Full Tilt, Coastal Kitchen, Campagne, and Theo Chocolate donate profits to relief organizations.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jan 15, 2010 at 03:00PM 3 Comments

One hundred percent of donations to Campagne’s three-course bouillabaise dinner will go to relief in Haiti.

Horrified by the devastation in Haiti? Here are ways to help:

Profits earned this Sunday, the 17th of January at Full Tilt ice cream will go to the Red Cross’s relief efforts.

Meanwhile next Thursday, January 21st, 25 percent of sales on EVERYTHING sold at Coastal Kitchen between 8am and 10pm will go towards Mercy Corps—another aid organization helping Haiti.

On Monday the 25th, Campagne is hosting a three-course bouillabaisse dinner. Suggested donations $100 per person, and 100 percent of that will go to Doctors Without Borders—the organization many are calling the most effective in Haiti right now. Call 206-728-2800 for reservations.

And Theo Chocolate fans: 100 percent of the price of classic milk and dark chocolate bars are currently going to CARE.

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