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Monettes restaurant helping out Haiti

Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Contributing Editor

Helping Haiti is as easy as saying “Cheers!” At least it is if you visit Monettes restaurant at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel during the month of February.

Owners Mark and Scott Monette and Executive Chef Matthew Zubrod are raising money for Doctors Without Borders, specifically to benefit the groups work in Haiti following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake.

Monettes has pledged to keep its ‘Hawaii for Haiti’ promotion running through February, contributing $5 per Haitian Rum cocktail sold at the bar.

Chef Zubrod, who worked at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman, put his Caribbean skills to work Jan. 25, cooking up a benefit feast at the restaurant that netted $900.

“A Jamaican lady I worked with gave me an awesome recipe for jerk. It works great for pork or chicken,” Zubrod said. “I was pretty fired up about those dishes.”

Mark Monette said, “Our restaurant exists on the Big Island in big part due to the 2006 earthquake here that so badly damaged Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. That earthquake led to a multi-million renovation of this legendary property and provided the opportunity for us to do business here.”

Monette said he feels a duty to do whatever he can to assist in the rebuilding of Haiti.

“We need to help out,” he said. “We are so fortunate in this country. We have every opportunity in the world. Other countries don’t have that, don’t have a way to get ahead.”

Monette said the restaurant also will accept checks for Doctors Without Borders and can provide tax receipts.

“We’ll send it all straight to them,” Monette said. “Every little bit will help so much.”

— Find out more:
www.doctorswithoutborders.com.
www.monetteshawaii.com/homepage.php or call 443-2850

Chef Matthew Zubrod's 'Hawaii for Haiti" benefit dinner menu - it was excellent! (Hawaii 24/7 photo by Karin Stanton)

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