These Downtown Restaurants Are Keeping Front-Line Workers Well-Fed

If there’s one thing that has impressed us as New York City activity halts to minimize COVID-19’s spread, it is the outpouring of kindness — from apartment dwellers making grocery runs for their immunocompromised neighbors to warm greetings between strangers as they take their socially-distanced walks for essential items. 

In addition to these heartening actions, neighborhood restaurants are going above and beyond the indispensable residential takeout and delivery offerings to ensure health-care professionals are well-fed and -caffeinated with free meals and snacks. 

Stout NYC’s restaurant group has partnered with the Food1st, a foundation that has surpassed the delivery of 100,000 lunches and dinners (e.g. chicken, rice and beans; grilled salmon; short ribs with wild mushrooms) to New Yorkers in need. 

 

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A post shared by Stout NYC (@stout_nyc) on May 19, 2020 at 8:57am PDT

Birch Coffee is keeping the medical field caffeinated after donating more than 800 pounds of beans to local hospitals.

 

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Sweetcatch Poke is serving free poke bowls to health-care workers. (Just bring your hospital ID at any location.)

 

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Thanks to donations, Sons of Thunder is providing care lunches to hospital workers through its website.

 

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A post shared by Sons of Thunder (@sotnyc) on Mar 25, 2020 at 11:16am PDT

Da Claudio is letting customers send to-go meals to staff members at New York-Presbyterian.

 

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A post shared by Da Claudio Ristorante NYC (@daclaudionyc) on Mar 29, 2020 at 1:01pm PDT

Van Leeuwen provided a special treat to staff at several New York City hospitals, shipping tubs of ice cream for health-care workers to enjoy.

 

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A post shared by Van Leeuwen Ice Cream (@vanleeuwenicecream) on Mar 27, 2020 at 3:35pm PDT

&Pizza is donating pies to hospital workers.

 

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787 Coffee is offering free drip coffee to medical professionals.

 

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Fields Good Chicken has served more than 500 health care professionals in the city via their donations-driven Birds For Good program.

 

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If you hear about more Downtown businesses helping out hospital and health-care heroes, please reach out via Twitter or email.

photo: &pizza