Appetite for Good

Delicious burgers and fries for good causes. DMK Burger Bar isn’t just a destination for burger lovers – its 365 Days of Giving is a great reason to pig out without feeling guilty.

Matsuri and Chef Tadashi Ono joins Appetite for Good in raising money for StreetWise Partners, an organization helping low income New Yorkers gain workplace skills and job opportunity. Enter the Appetite for Good give away to win Matsuri gift cards if you support StreetWise Partners’ fundraising campaign!

Cupcakes have taken the nation by storm. Cake’s sweet little sister is replacing the Popsicle as the American treat of choice. It’s hard to find a unique twist on a classic delight, but The Cupcake Bar has managed to do just that.

Take a sneak peak of City Harvest’s Summer in the City event at the Metropolitan Pavilion, held this past Tuesday, June 22nd. Stay tuned for Francesca’s full write up of this fun event with interviews with Chef Marc Murphy, Miss Universe, and more!

It’s Real Housewives week here at Appetite for Good and I recently met husband and wife team Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen as they lent their support to a very worthy cause. The famous duo – and Brooklyn-residents – came out for the American Cancer Society event Eat, Drink, and Be Hopeful held at the lovely BellTel Lofts in downtown Brooklyn.

If you had no idea about the Silver Spoons event, you might have mistaken Rockefeller Center for some sort of celebrity chef convention. With all this talent concentrated in one area, I thought I died and gone to heaven! This was a fantastic event and probably one of the best events Appetite for Good has had the opportunity to participate in.

Next week, City Harvest will host its 9th annual Summer in the City event at the Metropolitan Pavilion. The event, which attracts the city’s hottest chefs and mixologists, will be Tuesday, June 22 from 7:30PM to 10:00PM.

This week is Philanthropy Week at Morton’s Atlanta locations, which means you and I get to enjoy a delicious, discounted three-course dinner at a swanky steakhouse, and a portion of the menu price goes to a different local charity each night.

This is the second article in a three-part series on my evening at Eat, Drink, and Be Hopeful fundraiser to benefit cancer research. Held at the luxurious BellTel Lofts, the event attracted an eclectic bunch of Brooklyn restaurants, beverage distributors, dessert-makers and more.

25 years of star chefs gathered at the beautiful Rockefeller Center Plaza on June 14th to celebrate James Beard and Citymeals-on-Wheels, including Wolfgang Puck, Daniel Boulud, Jacques Torres, and Larry Forgione.