On Thursday, October 18th, PHP will celebrate “World Food Day” with an “Empty Bowls: Dine and Donate” campaign to highlight the fact that in the United States and even in the Santa Ynez and Los Alamos Valleys, many children and adults go to bed hungry.   There are two fundraising components to this campaign.

First, there is a direct mail campaign sent to over 3,000 household soliciting funds for the PHP Food Program.  A brown bag mailer and insert (see below) are sent the first week in October of each year.

Second, local restaurants and wineries will donate a portion of their meals and tasting sales on October 18th towards PHP’s Food Program. Each year, we have incredible and generous restaurants and wineries (listed below) that have signed on to participate. PHP promotes these restaurants and encourages supporters to dine out via the direct mail piece, press releases, web site postings, and by posting special Empty Bowls Campaign posters in their windows. Now… go eat out!

Participating Restaurants-2011 (To be Updated September 2012)

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Brother’s Restaurant at Mattei’s Tavern 245-6627 matteistavern.com
Daniel Gehrs Wines 693-9686 danielgehrswines.com
Hitching Post II 688-0676 hitchingpost2.com
Longhorn Coffee Shop 688-5912 Longhorn Coffee Shop
Longoria Wines 688-0305 longoriawine.com
Los Olivos Café 688-7265 losolivoscafe.com
Los Olivos Grocery 688-5115 losolivosgrocery.com
Starting Gate at the Marriott 325-2013 syvmarriott.com
Tastes of the Valleys, Solvang 325-2013 tastesofthevalleys.com
The Vineyard House 688-2886 thevineyardhouse.com
Tower Pizza 688-3036 towerpizzasolvang.com
Trattoria Grappolo 350-1147 trattoriagrappolo.com
Viking Garden Restaurant 688-1250 vikinggardenrestaurant.com
Wandering Dog Wine Bar 686-9126 wanderingdogwinebar.com

For more information on Empty Bowls, contact Jordan Granet at jordan@syvphp.org

For more information on PHP’s Food Program, contact Jenny Buenrostro at jenny@syvphp.org