Dine Out Help Hunger

Like I need any incentive to eat out.

If you've read my blog in archives from May 22nd, you've seen my kitchen (not conducive to cooking; not even re-heating.)

However, you still have another week to try out some fine Fairfield dining while at the same time helping to end childhood hunger in America. The  5th annual Dine Out began last Monday the 18th. But it continues through this Friday. I've even drawn you a map to one of the participating restaurants, the newly re-opened Ralph 'n' Riches in Bridgeport. Take a look, then scroll down for the rest of the story. Click on the pinpoints for details of what they mark. Click on Map for streets and Hybrid for both streets and satellite. Click and hold anywhere on the map and you can scroll all around Fairfield County. You can even make your own maps for your blog.

At participating restaurants, you get a special three course prix fixe; $20.00 for lunch and $35.00 for dinner. You also get a bottle of S. Pellegrino or Acqua Panna. It's actually a nationwide project, with restaurants in Chicago and on the West Coast participating, as well as in Westchester and Fairfield counties. With each meal served, S. Pellegrino, which is a brand of Greenwich-based Nestle Waters, will donate $1.00 to Share Our Strength, the nation's leading non profit organization to fight childhood hunger in America.

The promotion began last Monday, September 18th, the same day Ralph 'n' Rich's reopened in its new location on Main street, across from the Barnum Museum. The original opened 16 years ago on Wall street. Owners Ralph Silano and Richard Ndini say despite warnings not to open in downtown back in 1990, they wanted to be a part of the restructuring of their hometown. Now they feel they are once again movers in the recent renaissance of Bridgeport.