If you haven't been to the Firehouse Restaurant on Northeast Dekum Street, use this fun event for a great cause as your excuse. The Firehouse Restaurant, located at 711 NE Dekum Street, will be celebrating their first year in business with an open house benefiting Woodlawn Elementary School's Sports 4 Kids program. The open house will take place on Sunday, June 28th from 4pm - 8pm. Open to the public, the event will feature complimentary food prepared by co-owner and chef Matthew Busetto and crew, a no-host bar with proceeds going to Sports 4 Kids, and a raffle with prizes from local businesses and restaurants. The night's entertainment will be bluegrass from The Josh Cole Band and the weather report has organizers optimistic that the outdoor patio will be open!
"This is a great cause, and we are so happy to help our community," says Gretchen Glatte, Firehouse pastry chef. "When we learned that this great program was in need of funding, we thought what better way to help then to use our anniversary party as a way to raise money for them."
Sports 4 Kids is a nonprofit organization bringing safe, healthy and meaningful play back to the schoolyard. With an emphasis on games that teach conflict resolution, body-awareness, and self confidence, Sports 4 Kids is dedicated to ensuring that all children, regardless of socio-economic background, will enjoy the emotional, social and physical health benefits of play and exercise. For more on the group, visit their website: www.sports4kids.org.
Firehouse Restaurant, located in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland, is the brainchild of restaurateur Eric Rose and chef/restaurateur Matthew Busetto. They met while working at New Seasons. Busetto, a veteran of the San Francisco food scene, who has also worked at clarklewis here in town, has always sought to serve seasonally relevant food from the freshest sources available. Rose, as an early pioneer in the sustainable food movement with a background in nutritional anthropology, came to find many similarities between Busetto's philosophies on food and his own. The team fashioned a vision of opening a restaurant that served honest and good food, made from locally and sustainably farmed ingredients, at a fair price. Busetto wanted to do it simply, in the style of central and southern Italy's trattorias—a neighborhood place where people could gather for hearty conversation paired with delicious food and drink. The old firehouse, sitting at the center of Woodlawn's Dekum Triangle for nearly 100 years, is the perfect setting for such a place. After an extensive restoration of the building that included the addition of a flagstone patio, raised beds for organic produce, and furniture built with reclaimed wood from around the state, Firehouse opened on the bottom floor and naturopathic physician Elizabeth Busetto (Matthew's wife), opened her practice above.
The Sports 4 Kids benefit will be a great opportunity to support a worthy cause, and get to know a wonderful neighborhood restaurant.
Firehouse Restaurant Anniversary Open House & Fundraiser
711 NE Dekum Street
Portland, OR 97211
Sunday, June 28, 2009
4pm - 8pm
503-954-1702
info@firehousepdx.com
www.firehousepdx.com
