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Community Kitchen Meal Distributions at Naomi’s Garden Restaurant, Boia De, and Clive’s Café

Food Rescue US – Miami has been selected by The Miami Foundation in partnership with The PepsiCo Foundation to receive a $50,000 grant that will be designated to launch community kitchens within the Little Haiti area.

The Community Kitchen Program supports employment for restaurant staff while providing chef-prepared meals free of charge to food-insecure individuals and families, including furloughed and unemployed workers in many of the city’s most underserved areas. The program has also provided meals to frontline workers, Assisted Living Facilites, and local social service agencies.

To date, Food Rescue US - Miami has distributed over 35,000 meals in Overtown, Wynwood, Miami Gardens, Model City, Little Haiti, and Little Havana. Restaurant partners have included Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster Overtown, James Beard Award Finalist Brad Kilgore’s Alter in Wynwood, Celebrity Chef Michelle Bernstein’s Café La Trova in Little Havana, and popular Little Haiti and Miami Gardens spot Chef Creole.

In partnership with Naomi’s Garden Restaurant, Boia De, and Clive’s Jamaican cafe, 5,000 meals will be provided to the Little Haiti community over the next few months. A team of passionate Food Rescue US - Miami volunteers will be onsite to handle the food distribution.

The current schedule is as follows:

Naomi's Garden Café

Wednesday, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29, August 5, August 12, & August 19 (NEW)

Saturday, July 11, July 18, July 25, August 1 (cxld), & August 8 (NEW)

3-5pm

(Additional dates TBD)

Boia De

Tuesdays, July 21, July 28, August 4, August 11, August 18th (NEW)

2-4pm

(Additional dates TBD)

Clive’s Cafe

Thursday, August 13, August 20, & August 27

Saturday, August 15, August 22, & August 29

2-4 pm

(Additional dates TBD)

“Our Community Kitchen Program is supporting our local independent restaurant community by putting people back to work to feed those still out of work during this terrible time for Miami. Our chef-prepared meals are packaged as takeout and distributed safely in a no-contact walk-up or drive-up setting and available to anyone in need of a meal,” said Ellen Bowen, Site Director for Food Rescue US – Miami and Managing Director of food blog, MIAbites.

To volunteer to help with the meal distributions please register on the Food Rescue US app as a volunteer. And to make a donation in support of Food Rescue US – Miami, please visit the Food Rescue US COVID-19 Response Fund and designate your donation to “Miami”.

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