We need your help

Massimo's restaurant in Hout Bay is currently closed, but owners Massimo and Tracy, with managers Anton and Chris will keep the kitchen open and prepare meals to be distributed to the needy, in collaboration with 'Gracie love in a bowl' and 'Community Cookup IY'

Many people will be out of work, kids out of school (where they used to get the only meal for the day), infected will be stuck home.

We need everyone's help and we are already stretched by having to pay our staff at home and the rent. We can only do this with your help.

We hope to give some support and show others this can be done with the collaboration of everyone.

We will buy vegetables, pasta, rice and all is needed to prepare healty meals.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION.

We (that is, my wife, Tracy and I) came to South Africa in 2003 for a holiday, and fell in love with the country, its people, and the landscape. Before that, we spent seven years living in the French countryside running a ‘gite’ (a type of B&B or ‘agriturismo’).  We did the cleaning, gardening, ironing, pool cleaning, etc ourselves, as well as offering French, Italian , or far Eastern dining on request for up to 26 people.  We installed a pizza oven and then expanded our offering to pizza. Everybody loved our lighter, thinner style of pizza, so it was a natural progression to bring that idea to Cape Town. "Massimo’s Pizza Club" began here in 2009 with us and 4 staff, preparing all the ingredients in our kitchen at home and bringing them here at 4pm, as we shared the premises! We are now open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner and have roughly 20 staff.