Compassionate Chefs Cafe

Baron Sir Roy Salazar prepares to open a bottle of champagne with a saber.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Compassionate Chefs Cafe on May 24th. We had a great time and raised over $9,000!

Our biggest thanks goes out to Baron Sir Roy Salazar who joined us for the dinner, music and merriment. If you weren’t there, Baron Roy provided an exciting element to the night by opening champagne bottles with a saber.

Many, many thanks to all of you who came and to all our sponsors who made the event a grand success.

A special thank you to our major donors:

Angie and Alvin from Hana Zen

Shanti and Sam Mathan

Mr & Mrs Anil Lal

Martin & Mary from Johnny Foleys

Dr Naveen Chandra

Dr Ravi &Renu Gupta

And a deep gratitude to all our volunteers

Thanks to the Goan Community of the Bay Area for their lively dance performance, Amar of Electric Vardo Live for the jumping music and Ramana Vieira and Ensemble for the amazing performance to close out the evening.

And a big thank you to each and every staff member of New Delhi Restaurant for volunteering their time to this event.

Henna Gardens provided custom henna designs for the evening.

We will be updating the Compassionate Chefs.org website with photos of the event in the coming week.
Please visit soon. Thanks again to everyone who contributed their time and efforts.

On that note, please send us your check if you did not get a chance to join us, but still wanted to make a contribution. Please make check payable to:

Ramana Vieira warms up the crowd with a Portugese folk song.

Compassionate Chefs Cafe

and mail or drop it by:

New Delhi Restaurant

160 Ellis Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

Thanks again for all your support and we look forward to seeing you at our next event in November.

Click here to see all the photos from the evening.

We raised over $9,000 and still counting. On that note, please send us your check if you were not able to join us, but still wanted to make a contribution.

Please make check payable to:

Compassionate Chefs Cafe
and mail it to:
New Delhi Restaurant
160 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Many many thanks to all of you who came and to all our sponsors who made the event a grand success.
We had over 300 friends and family join us!

(L to R) Art Agnos, Sarah Dey, Commissioner Darshan Singh and Ranjan Dey at the New Delhi Restaurant Grand Opening, November 1988

Former Mayor Art Agnos, Sarah and Kaitlin Dey, Commisoner Darshan Singh, Ranjan and Kodi Dey, November 16, 2008

We would like to offer a special thank you to Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. Mayor Agnos presided over the offical New Delhi Restaurant ribbon cutting 20 years ago and it was an honor and a pleasure to have him back for our anniversary party. He was joined by another special guest: Commisioner Darshan Sing, who also helped open our doors twenty years ago.

Performances by Dhol Rhythyms and Boom Boom Bollywood entranced the crowd.

Many thanks to Kodi, Latha, Sarah and Kaitlin Dey for organzing all the donations and the raffle; Renda from Henna Garden for her support with the henna artists; Amar for putting together the program with so many dancers and music that kept us jumping all evening long; Boom Boom Bollywood, Verona, Christine and Monica and the always popular crew from Dhol Rhythyms.

Jose Chuc donated his photographic talents and captured many amazing moments from this celebration. And a big thank you to each and every staff member of New Delhi Restaurant for volunteering their time to this event.

And the biggest Thank You of all to you – our friends, family and contributors!

We will be updating the Compassionate Chefs.org website with photos of the event in the coming week. Also, please visit our Flickr page for even more photos. Please visit soon. Thanks again to everyone who contributed their time, efforts and money.

Ranjan’s Non-Stop Gourmet Buffet was popular all evening long.

The henna artists did a booming business.

The Compassionate Chefs Cafe 20th Anniversary Bollywood Dance Party on Nov. 16 is getting closer every day. If you didn’t get an invite in your email – don’t worry. We still want to see you there. Click the image to see all the details, then print out the flier and pass it around to 10 of your closest friends. We want to see them there too.

We ask that you RSVP by email as soon as you can. Let us know who you are and how many people will be coming with you. We’ll take care of the rest. You can RSVP quickly and easily right here: RSVP.

For Sponsors:
The New Delhi Restaurant will transform itself into Compassionate Chefs Cafe on Sunday, November 18, 2008. This is a benefit party for the entire Bay Area that will uplift the less fortunate children of the Tenderloin After School Program in San Francisco and the Gandhi Ashram of New Delhi – benefiting kids both locally and in India.

So what will be happening? From 5:00 pm to midnight several hundred charity-minded movers and shakers will be having a great time at New Delhi Restaurant. This is an excellent opportunity to catch up with old friends, show off your latest product and get a look at what others are doing. Also a non-stop Food and Beverage Dance Party Extravaganza will be in full swing – gourmet food, fabulous libations, cultural performances, Henna Artists, Belly Dancers, DJ and Dancing.

Benefits of Being a Sponsor
Why should you help sponsor this event? Keep reading and let us tell you.
Diamond Spoon Sponsorship Level: $10,000
• Co-naming rights to the event
• Opportunity to promote your product or service through the invitations, email, web site and signage at the event. (Up to 5 brands.)
Ruby Spoon Sponsorship Level: $5,000
• Opportunity to promote your product or service through the invitations, email, web site and signage at the event. (Up to 3 brands.)
Emerald Spoon Sponsorship Level: $2,500
• Opportunity to promote your product or service through the invitations, email, web site and signage at the event. (Up to 2 brands.)
Gold Spoon Sponsorship Level: $1,000
• Opportunity to promote your product or service through the invitations, email, web site and signage at the event. (One brand.)
No matter what level you choose, you’ll get the following benefits:
• Access to over 5000 Food and Beverage establishments
with a buying power of over $500 million.
• Include your messages and product in our gift bags.
• Feature product and services during the event.
• Become part of our email blast to over 5000 establishments.
• Increased awareness across the industry
• High profile community involvement.
• Extensive advertising.
• Visibility through special events, promotions and signage.
• High return on contribution.
And of course, there will be media exposure as well.
• Direct mail to 5000 businesses
• Newspaper advertising (Ads in SF Weekly, readership 200,000, value is percentage of $50,000 total value depending on number of sponsors.)
• Press release featuring you in all the CCC press kits and press releases sent to regional, national and international food and beverage related media publications.
• Gift bag collateral – Opportunity to promote your product or service through the invitations, email, web site and signage at the event.
• Web sites – CompassionateChefsCafe.org will list web site addresses and links for their support to the cause.
This is an industry event that should not be missed. To become part of the festivities,
contact Ranjan Dey at ranjan@newdelhirestaurant.com or by phone at 415.816.4068.

Confirmed Sponsors: Southern Wines and Spirits, BiRite, Chartreuse, Damorak Gin, Lotus Vodka, Francis Ford Coppola Presents, Taj Campton Place, Classic Wines, Mill Valley Insurance Company, High-End Uniforms, Light Soda On Tap, Mission Linen and Supply, SF Weekly and Golden Gate Restaurant Association.

Sunday, November 16, 2008 – 5:00 pm to midnight
New Delhi Restaurant and Bar

160 Ellis St, San Francisco

Phone: 415.397.8470

This event is our gift to you. We are hoping this will influence you to help uplift the lives of less fortunate children both at the Tenderloin After School Program and at the Gandhi Ashram in New Delhi, India.

Pay as much as you like, suggested donation is $40 per person.

For validated parking park at APM Parking, 261 Ellis Street, located between Mason and Taylor.

New Delhi Restaurant is celebrating its 20 year anniversary by transforming into the Compassionate Chefs Cafe. Our goal has always been to help kids become citizens of the world by connecting kids across the street in the Tenderloin of San Francisco with kids across the ocean at the Gandhi Ashram in New Delhi, India. Please join us in this celebration to help us help the kids become global citizens.
How can you help? Find Out More –>

This is a Pay-it-Forward event and we only ask that you donate what you feel moved to give. Suggested donations are $40 per person. All funds are split evenly between the Tenderloin Afterschool Program and the Gandhi Ashram in New Delhi. Compassionate Chefs Cafe keeps back nothing for operating expenses; all goods and services are donated. Your donation is fully tax deductible. (Non-Profit Tax ID 94-3136771, Value of goods for the event $40)
How can you help? Find Out More –>

Electric Vardo Live

Entertainment for the evening will be provided by Electric Vardo Live featuring DJ AMAR with dance performances by Samantha Riggs & Boom Boom Bollywood from Tempe, AZ, Vorona from New York performing Tribal Fusion Belly Dance and local performers Christine & Monica with their unique style of Hip Hop duet along with DholRhythms. Also sharing their talents for the evening are henna artists and palm readers from Henna Gardens and Bhangra dancing with Vicki, Suman and the gang from DholRhythms.
Click here for the evening’s program

Vorona	Dholrhythms.com	“Christine and Monica”
	Henna Garden.com	Boom Boom Bollywood

Gourmet food and fabulous libations! Enjoy Chef Ranjan’s non-stop ten course gourmet Indian buffet, featuring delicacies and delights, desserts and drinks. On the table you will discover bari pakoras, mini samosas, Hariyali Tikka, Seekh Keebab, Murg Akbari, Gulab Jamun along with lots along with lots of other delicious goodies. Bring an appetite, leave happy.

Donations can be made at one of three levels: Silver – $250, Gold – $500 or Platinum – $1000.
All funds are split easily between the Tenderloin After School Program and the Gandhi Ashram of New Delhi, India. Compassionate Chefs Cafe keeps nothing back for operating expenses; all goods and services are donated. Your donation is fully tax deductible. (Non-Profit Tax ID 94-3136771, Value of goods for the event $40). Click here for Sponsorshp Benefits

Come experience the Compassionate Chefs Cafe – a remarkable celebration of giving. Working to Uplift the lives of of children across the street and across the ocean. www.CompassionateChefsCafe.org

About Us Compassionate Chefs Cafe (CCC) is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization with one goal: To help children locally and globally. We work with members of the members of the Bay Area community to raise funds for the children across the street and across the ocean. This is an experiment to see what happens when a community comprised of caring people, business owners and local chefs all focus their generosity. Your donations will help us create more global citizens. Please give generously to make this dream a reality.

Our Projects Across the street, we support the Tenderloin After School Program – which provides valuable services to the kids of the families living in the Tenderloin district of San Fancisco. TASP provides kids with a safe place to be, where they can play and study and the proper support and training necessary to succeed in life. Across the ocean, we’ve adopted the Gandhi Ashram at Kingsway Camp in New Delhi, India to help uplift the underprivileged. At this location, we are helping to fund the school for children of Harijan (untouchable) Street Cleaners. These children will help ti uplift their improvrished communities from within. It is the most basic of all human needs to be clean and have nurturing human touch.

Where the Funds Go Last year $26,000 was raised by Compassionate Chefs Cafe. The funds kept TASP’s doors open and available to over 250 kids for 40 hours a week, sent 16 kids on a visit to colleges in Chicago and helped provide free homework tutoring five nights a week. At the Gandhi Ashram, our donation provided clean water and new bathrooms to the school, bought new uniforms and provided school supplies to all 300 students. Learn more details at www.CompassionateChefsCafe.org How You Can Help: Make a donation with cash, check or credit card in any amount. Or buy a ticket to our Anniversary Celebration.

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New Delhi Restaurant | New World Spices | Compassionate Chefs Cafe

Guests of the Compassionate Chefs Cafe event on May 25th got to see a cultural highlight never before attempted: Chefs Martin Yan and Ranjan Dey belly dancing with Nisha.

For those of you who couldn’t be there – we immortalized this grand event on video.
Enjoy!

See video at YouTube.

Our May 25th event was included in the June 6th edition of India-West. Thanks again to everyone who made the evening such a success.

Click on the image for a larger version.

Thanks to everyone who came on May 25th. We had a great time and raised over $10,000 (and still counting) for Compassionate Chefs Cafe!

Our biggest thanks goes out to Chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook who joined us for the dinner, dancing and merriment. We would also like to extend our gratitude to to Shanti and Sam Mathan, who has volunteered to buy mattresses for all the children at the Gandhi Ashram. We cannot thank you enough for this generous donation.

Many many thanks to all of you who came and to all our sponsors who made the event a grand success.

Thanks to Vonne from Open Table for welcoming everybody. Thanks also go to Kodi and Latha Dey for organzing all the donations, Amar for putting together the music that kept us
jumping all evening long and Nisha who started the dancing off right with Ranjan and Martin.

And big thank you to each and every staff member of New Delhi Restaurant for volunteering their time to this event.

On that note, please send us your check if you did not get a chance to join us, but still wanted to make a contribution. Please make check payable to:

Compassionate Chefs Cafe
and mail it to
New Delhi Restaurant
160 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Thanks again for all your support and we look forward to seeing you at our next event in November.

Click here to see all the photos from the evening.