Medium Rare at 3500 Connecticut Ave in NW, Washington, DC will be holding its annual turkey frying event on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 27) from 11am-4pm in an effort to raise money for Feed the Fridge.
The event is first come, first serve, and the restaurant is asking that people only bring turkeys to be fried that weigh less than 10lbs. Feed the Fridge, which was started by Medium Rare’s Mark Bucher, places refrigerators in local communities and pays area restaurants to stock them daily with fresh meals. Medium Rare has a MoCo location at 4904 Fairmont Ave in Bethesda.
Per Medium Rare: “Medium Rare, the prix fixe steak frites restaurant with locations in nine cities, is back with their annual Free Turkey Fry at its Cleveland Park location at 3500 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008. And this year, it will be the first time the event is held in other cities in addition to Washington, D.C (Boston, Houston, and Dallas). The Medium Rare Free Turkey Fry event was founded in 2008, by the restaurant’s co-founder Mark Bucher, an experienced and passionate voice on hunger, food insecurity, and real-world, scalable solutions, as a way to help those who wanted to avoid the hassles and potential dangers of turkey frying. Many who took advantage of the event were recipients of free turkeys but lacked the skill, confidence, or tools to cook them. The expansion of this year’s Free Turkey Fry into Boston, Houston and Dallas, reflects both the program’s growth and the increasing need for community support surrounding the growing issue of food insecurity in the current economic and political climate.
“We’ve seen the growing need to expand the Free Turkey Fry event year after year,” said Bucher. “It’s great to provide food to those that are struggling to make ends meet, but we often don’t think about how they are going to cook the food. As an offshoot of the Free Turkey Fry program, we launched Feed the Fridge during the COVID pandemic, placing community refrigerators across the DC and paying local restaurants to fill them daily with fresh, ready-to-eat chef-prepared meals. To date, the organization has provided more than one million free meals and injected over $2 million back into neighborhood restaurants. The Turkey Fry event has been a catalyst for donations to Feed the Fridge.”
DC’s Medium Rare Free Turkey Fry will take place on Thanksgiving Day from 11 am to 4 pm (with lines usually forming around 8 am) and is open to anyone who brings a fully thawed turkey, up to 10 pounds. Bucher assures they will try and get to everyone, they will be operating on a first come, first serve basis. Medium Rare is expected to fry hundreds of turkeys in DC and encourages people to arrive early.”
