Owner Marcia Sindel of La Dolce Via, 4470 Arco Avenue, St. Louis, was the subject of a Bill McClellan column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last summer. He announced a benefit that her friends and customers were throwing for her in September which would help pay part of the bills for hand surgeries and gallbladder removal. “She has had no health insurance for 15 years,” McClellan reported.
The first round of surgeries is finished and Marcia is back in the La Dolce Via kitchen supervising a busy baking operation, breakfasts, lunches and weekend gourmet dinners. Llewellyn’s Restaurant in the Central West End hosted the benefit with an astounding food spread, all carefully prepared by Marcia. She still needs about two more months to fully recover then she will schedule surgery on her other hand, wracked with arthritis.
La Dolce Via has started to donate two per cent of waiter tips to KWMU, the local National Public Radio station. “We just want to support public radio because so many of our customers listen to it,” said waiter Jason Sindel. “People will be giving to both us and NPR.”
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