CRANSTON, RI — Food insecurity – lacking reliable access to food – affects about 57,000 Rhode Islanders — people the RI Community Food Bank serves — and you can help them do that at Friday’s Empty Bowl fundraiser, where you’ll get a hand-made bowl and food from 35 restaurants for your trouble at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston.

Admission is $45 in advance/$50 at the door ($150 if you’d like to register as a patron), giving you your choice of handmade artisanal bowls (which you can select on the fundraiser’s Facebook page) you can use to sample soup, bread and dessert from 35 local restaurants. Keep the bowl.

The fundraiser runs 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Participating Restaurants

Blount Organic	Exeter Jobs Corp Academy	RI Community Food Bank Community Kitchen
Bluefin Grille	Gregg’s Restaurants & Pubs	Rick’s Roadhouse
Cassarino’s Ristorante	Julian’s	Rooftop at the G
The Catering Gourmet	Knead	Russell Morin Fine Catering
Chair 5	Legal Seafood	The Salted Slate
Chapel Grille	Luigi’s	Seven Stars Bakery
Cozy Caterers	Mill’s Tavern	Shaw’s Supermarkets
Dave’s Marketplace	New Harvest Coffee Roasters	Statesman Tavern
The Dorrance	Nick’s on Broadway	Tallulah’s Taqueria
Edgewood Cheese Shop	Ocean State Sandwich Company	Tom’s BaoBao
Eleven Forty 49	Portfolio Cafe at RISD	Two Ten Oyster Bar & Grill
	Renaissance Providence Hotel

Author: Rob Borkowski

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