June 7, 2017
Italy's top chef Massimo Bottura this week officially opened the doors to his London soup kitchen, where Michelin-starred chefs will turn surplus foods destined for the landfills into gourmet meals for the city's homeless, elderly and refugees.
This week, Refettorio Felix opened its doors for its first lunch service in London, where Bottura improvised a three-course meal with 50 crates of surplus food that included a vegetable soup to start, pasta with leftover bread crumbs, and a homemade ice cream made with Earl Grey tea and biscuits.
The kitchens will be supplied by unsold food stock from retailers like Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer, Fortnum and Mason, Harrods and Whole Foods.
To help inaugurate the new space at St. Cuthbert's Day Centre in West London this week, Bottura tapped chefs like Alain Ducasse, Clare Smyth and Margot Henderson who will oversee the menu preparation.
Read more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/soup-kitchen-london-serves-homeless-gourmet-meals-worlds-152227802.html
