Florence, 14 June 2024 – Inaugurated last night new restaurant at Centro Le Torri in Villa Vogelpromoted by Caritas Solidarity Foundation of Florence, which already runs one of the city canteens here at lunchtime. The space, where you can enjoy pizzas, burgers, first courses and street food, is open to everyone from Thursday to Sunday. The menu is prepared by the chef Gabriele Andreoni together with the historic chef of the Foundation Carlo Mazzola. In the kitchen and in the dining room they are helped by volunteers and people who benefit from the services of the structures of the Florentine Caritas Solidarity Foundation: minors from reception centres, students from hotel schools who already with their teachers collaborate with the city canteens, pensioners, girls who they are following the civil service and the year of social volunteering at Caritas in Florence, young people with disabilities. The idea is to entrust the preparation of bread and focaccia, once the green light has been obtained from the judicial authority, to a former baker who is a beneficiary of the alternative measures to detention, welcomed into the Il Samaritano house of the Foundation. “It is a dream come true, in the footsteps of Danilo Cubattoli and Ghita Vogel who donated the structure to us. We are happy that the first evening was a success: it was an emotion both for the diners and for the people in the kitchen and in the dining room” comments Vincenzo Lucchetti, president of Fondazione Solidarietà Caritas of Florence.
