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GoLocalProv | News | This Top Rhode Island Restaurant Has Delivered Over 4,000 Meals to Healthcare Workers & Homeless
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Circe delivered the meals throughout the begin of the pandemic — and once more this month. PHOTO: Circe
Circe Restaurant in Windfall and East Greenwich is understood for its top-notch meals and cocktails.
From burgers to steaks and seafood, each of the institutions have cultivated a loyal following.
It was as soon as such buyer that approached Normal Supervisor Kyle Poland throughout the pandemic and mentioned he wished to have the ability to assist share Circe’s high delicacies — with others.
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“He noticed what was taking place and wished to assist,” mentioned Poland. “He had the power to do one thing. Not everybody has the means, or those that do, don’t act. We simply helped make his imaginative and prescient a actuality.”
So for seven weeks throughout the peak of the pandemic, the staff at Circe delivered over 2,800 meals to healthcare employees across the state, together with at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Kent Hospital, Roger Williams Hospital, Fatima Hospital, Hasbro Kids’s Hospital, and South County Hospital.
And the meals that had been delivered? They had been Circe’s first-class delicacies.
“We’re simply the vessel. It was his thought,” mentioned Poland, of the donor who wished to stay nameless. “The massive drawback right this moment, is regardless of the social difficulty is that wanted to be addressed, folks not may cease up. This can be a one that may simply sit on a ship all summer time lengthy. However he doesn’t.”
Now, the meals supply program that started three years in the past continues right this moment.
PHOTO: Circe
Lending a Serving to Hand Once more
Quick ahead to 2023, and Circe’s beneficiant benefactor mentioned that he wished to assist out once more.
And Circe delivered.
“This time it was lobster ravioli with a pink vodka sauce and spinach, and blackened salmon and greens,” Circe proprietor Carlo Carlozzi informed GoLocal. “Each time we ship our meals, we deliver our greatest.”
This time, 1,600 meals have been dropped at native police and hearth departments — and the 24-hour warming station on the Cranston Avenue Armory — with extra donations to come back.
Poland says he hopes the story is an inspiration to others.
“We’re nonetheless coping with the consequences of the pandemic, however at a special degree,” mentioned Poland. “If anybody may give again one time of their life, we’d be a significantly better place.”
“He was simply capable of do it by way of us,” Poland added. “He had a chance to present again, and he did.”