MICHEL Dinner with Benefits for Best Buddies in November

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Give the gift of friendship and growth this November!

Each Tuesday and Wednesday MICHEL by Michel Richard in Tysons Corner supports a worthy nonprofit organization with their nightly $60 four-course prix fixe dinner menu. The entire month of November, MICHEL will donate a percentage of the proceeds from every Dinner with Benefits meal to Best Buddies.

Michel Richard has worked with Best Buddies for more than six years and is a Best Buddy to 23 year-old Jenny Holden.  “This program is very dear to my heart because it is in honor of my Best Buddy, Jenny Holden.  Jenny does not like chocolate, so this month we’ve designed the menu with Jenny in mind,” says Michel Richard.

Items on the prix-fixe menu may include corn soup, salmon tartare with capers and eggs, scallops with heirloom carrots, baby squash and fava beans, flat iron steak with onion carbonara and for dessert, crème brulee napoleon. The Dinner with Benefits menu is available Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver, Best Buddies is a vibrant organization that has grown from one original chapter to almost 1,500 middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. As a result of their involvement with Best Buddies, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders, and make lifelong friendships.

For more information about how you can get involved with the Best Buddies program, please visit www.bestbuddies.org or www.bestbuddieschallenge.org.

Dinner with Benefits: Best Buddies is every Tuesday and Wednesday from November 1 -30, 2011. Dinner hours are 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. For further information or to make a reservation call (703)744.3999 or visit www.michelrichardva.com.

Michel at the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean.

–Jennie Whistler

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