Tonight, the second annual Spoke & Food event invites you to eat out to dinner and to forgo your car by biking to a local restaurant.
"In doing so, you'll get the opportunity to better connect with your community and surroundings, you'll do something healthy, you'll have fun and most importantly, you'll help raise some funds for a well-deserving local non-profit," the website states.
This year the Spoke & Food event raises money for the Children's Garden Education program at Seattle Tilth, a program in which children learn to care for themselves and other living things through gardening activities in Seattle Tilth’s garden education programs.
Funds are generated by the kind donations of various host restaurants throughout Seattle who have agreed to donate 20% of their total revenues from tonight to the non-profit benefactor,
Each of the host restaurants will have a Spoke & Food volunteer onsite who will provide you with info about the event and Seattle Tilth while also collecting any additional donations you make.
In addition to raising funds for nonprofits, the top goal of the Spoke & Food event is "to influence the culture of Seattle...By launching this event, we will prompt people to use their bicycle more to transport themselves to and from the multiple daily events and activities that they normally drive to," the website states.
Other goals include promoting a healthy lifestyle by creating and event that requires exercise; improving our regard for the environment by exposing how easy it is to not use our cars for simple activities such as going to dinner; and exposing how fun biking to dinner can be.
To participate, simply ride your bike and enjoy a dinner at the following host restaurants:
• Snoose Junction in Ballard
• Barking Dog Alehouse in Greenwood
• Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon in North Seattle
• Stumbling Goat Bistro in Phinney Ridge
• Via Tribunali in Queen Anne
• The Scarlet Tree in Green Lake
• Julia’s in Wallingford
• Chaco Canyon Organic Café in the U-District
• The Lookout in Capitol Hill
• Madrona Eatery & Ale House in the Central District
• Proletariat Pizza in White Center
• Chaco Canyon Organic Café in West Seattle
For more information, visit www.viewhalloodesigns.com/spoke_info.htm.
