March 23, 2009

Local restaurants are participating in the Charlottesville Tap Project. That program has local and international benefits.

Customers have the option of paying a dollar for a glass of tap water. That money goes directly to UNICEF's Tap Project to provide safe drinking water to children around the world.

Locally, private donors will match the money raised in the restaurants to benefit the Rivanna Conservation Society's conservation projects and river clean-ups.

Gwen Goodkin, Charlottesville Tap Project Coordinator, says, "I would encourage people to go out to eat at any of these 25 participating restaurants this week, it's good for the local economy it will save lives, its green, its socially conscious, its global and its local."

This is a list of participating restaurants:

Aromas
Bang!
Biltmore Grill
Bizou
Blue Moon Diner
Bluegrass Grill
Boar's Head Inn
Cassis
The College Inn
Downtown Grille
Duner's
Eppie's
The Flat
Fleurie
Horse & Hound Gastropub
Hotcakes
Il Cane Pazzo
Petit Pois
Rapture
Revolutionary Soup
The Box
Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
X Lounge
Zinc
Zocalo