Over 30 Miami Restaurants provide meals for Surfside Families
Taquiza provided meals multiple times to the families and also to the first responders.
There are no words to express the shock, sadness, and heartbreak surrounding the collapse of the Champlain Tower South condominium in Surfside over 3 weeks ago..
As a native New Yorker, it is hard not to flash back 20 years ago to 9/11/2001 when the World Trade Center towers fell.
This felt as raw, and once again, like on 9/11 we all felt helpless not being able to do anything. The images over and over again of the collapse, the first responders frantically looking for survivors and the July 4th final demolition of the unstable remaining portion will stay with us for a long time.
But, for many of Miami’s best restaurants, there was something that could be done.
Food is Love. Food is Community.
Food and meal donations poured in, at one point overwhelming the Fire Rescue Command Center, World Central Kitchen arrived with food trucks, and the Red Cross set up families of victims, survivors, and evacuated guests at the Solara timeshare next door to the Champlain in area hotels. Condo and hotel evacuees fled their buildings barefoot, without ID, money, and personal belongings.
Food Rescue US- South Florida also mobilized, providing chef-prepared meals first to the evacuees and guests from Solara staying at SLS Brickell, Staybridge Suites, and Cambria Suites and then to the grieving families staying at the Residence Inn by Marriott.
Over 30 restaurants have provided over 1400 meals, many delivered by the chefs themselves or picked up and delivered by Food Rescue US volunteers. Freshly prepared lunches and dinners have been delivered every day for the past three weeks with our final delivery on Saturday 7/17, with COTE Miami providing both meat and vegetarian options.
MIAbites in collaboration with Food Rescue US would like to thank all of the amazing chefs and restaurants who poured their hearts and compassion into every meal.
Special thanks also to Surfside residents and friends; Sara Liss, Becky Randall and Elise Harris, for being the “ground crew” these past few weeks.
Whether it was freshly made Sullivan Street Bakery deli sandwiches from local Surfside restaurant, Josh’s Deli or Braised beef over rice with plantains and homemade chocolate bread pudding from Chef Michelle Bernstein,
or Chef Niven Patel braving hours of traffic to personally deliver Chicken Piri Piri from Mamey, every meal was our restaurant communities way to help Surfside and offer comfort to the grieving families.
Thank you :
Bagel Bar
Big Mamas BBQ
Café La Trova
Chef Creole
COTE
Coyo Taco
Divieto
Doce Provisions
Foozo Pizza
Harrys Pizza
Insomnia Cookies
Josh's Deli
Jungle Island
Kilgore
L'Artisane
Lil Greenhouse
LittleBrazil
Mamey
Michaels Genuine
Naomis
Oggis
Open Kitchen
Pamela Wasabi
Pincho
RED
Rosies
Society BBQ
SoHo House
Starbucks
Taquiza
Three
Tijuana Flats
TUR
Yardbird
As we wrap up our meals, special thanks also to the Red Cross, for allowing us access to the families to be able to share these meals.