A Thanksgiving Day Tradition
16th Annual Free Turkey Fry To Take Place At Medium Rare Restaurant In Cleveland Park
For anyone still looking for a feel-good story for tomorrow… this is it!
November 23rd, Thanksgiving Day, from 10 am to 4 pm is the 16th Annual Free Turkey Fry at Medium Rare Restaurant in Cleveland Park - 3500 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008.
This is a FREE event where the owners of Medium Rare will be frying turkeys for ANYONE who brings a thawed 8-to-12-pound bird with them tomorrow. There will be a dozen fryers filled with almost 500 gallons of oil that will be red hot and ready to fry up 96 birds an hour so get your crew (and your thawed turkeys) there early because the lines will start forming at 8 am.
The event has become a DC Thanksgiving Day tradition thanks, in no small part, to Medium Rare co-owner Mark Bucher. Bucher estimates they’ll fry up to 600 turkeys tomorrow. Bucher and his team started the event in 2008 for those who wanted to avoid the hassles and potential danger of turkey frying. He also realized that not everyone who receives a free or donated turkey has the ability to cook it so he wanted to make sure everyone can have a Thanksgiving meal.
A great addition to your Thanksgiving table!
In recent years, the Turkey Fry has become a fundraiser for Feed the Fridge, the non-profit Bucher started to provide free, nutritious, restaurant-prepared meals to those who need them. Since its launch at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Feed the Fridge has provided more than a million meals and has paid local restaurants more than $3 million in donated funds to prepare them.
Bucher estimates they’ll fry up to 600 turkeys tomorrow.
In addition, Bucher and his team will be delivering about 2500 free Thanksgiving meals to the area’s isolated seniors tomorrow from their Baltimore and Bethesda locations. The meal will consist of a fresh turkey breast and all the trimmings, dressing, stuffing, green vegetables, whipped potatoes, and fresh bread and butter, and of course, gravy and cranberry sauce.
Giving From The Heart: Bucher, the owners, and staff of Medium Rare Restaurant embody the true spirit of Thanksgiving!
Mark Bucher will be on site all day and is available for interviews (in between turkey frying). He is knowledgeable, passionate, and articulate about hunger-related issues and practical, real-world solutions aimed at eradicating hunger. He provides a lively and informative interview.
