Help Restore Bulgarini Restaurant! (OFFICIAL)

To our cherished customers,

We mourn with Altadena and all of those who have lost their homes, businesses and community. Like many of you, Altadena is not only our place of business, it is also our home. We have lost our house and everything in it. At the same time, we had a death in the family. As you can imagine, the combined losses have been utterly overwhelming. We have been scrambling, like everyone else, to find shelter and clothing, and to wade through the complexities of a house insurance claim. We are temporarily staying with friends so our son, Lorenzo, can go back to school.

In this time of SO much uncertainty, we are humbly asking our community to rally around us as we seek out what it means to recover from this nightmare. As you may have seen, the restaurant is still standing. What you may have also seen is that almost nothing around the restaurant survived. While we are grateful not have experienced this loss to the fullest extent (which so many of our neighboring businesses have) our restaurant is totally unusable as a safe space to serve or eat food.

We have cherished long time employees who have lost their jobs because of this, and our aim is to be able to employ them again.

We want to welcome you back and serve you gelato, fresh pasta and pizzas! But we need your help to do so.

Because the business is not a total loss, the insurance money for disasters like this is not available in the amounts needed to continue. Even if the county allows businesses to reopen, much of the town is displaced. Altadena is currently a disaster zone, so it will not be a fine dining travel destination for a long time.

The future is uncertain, but what IS certain is that Bulgarini will be back. With the help and support of people like you, there CAN be a future. The purpose of this gofundme is to raise the money to start again at a new location until Altadena is rebuilt, and we can safely welcome you and your families back home.

*Photos courtesy of Paul Roland*