Cafe Mogador is donating profits tomorrow to help the victims of Morocco's deadly earthquake

Photos and story by Stacie Joy 

Tomorrow (Sept. 11), Cafe Mogador on St. Mark's Place (and the Brooklyn location) is donating all of its profits to relief efforts in Morocco after the devastating earthquake there on Friday. 

Danny Orlin (below left) and Jacob Ahiyon, the general manager and operating partner, are also encouraging people to donate to a credible disaster relief service ...

The Orlin family lost relatives in a previous earthquake in 1960 in Agadir, Morocco, where they are from.

Cafe Mogador, which opened here in 1983, is at 101 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue. The Williamsburg location is at 133 Wythe Ave. (Not pictured: Co-organizer Rafael Ohayon, Danny's brother, is owner and operator of the Brooklyn outpost.)

How to help:

• Doctors Without Borders • Global Giving • Red Cross • UNICEF

Cafe Mogador provides a free meal to asylum seekers staying in the East Village

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy

Last evening, East Village mainstay Cafe Mogador, 101 St. Mark's Place, provided a free meal to the asylum seekers staying temporarily at the former St. Brigid School on Seventh Street and Avenue B.

Danny Orlin (middle above), son of Cafe Mogador founder Rivka Orlin, was there with some of the restaurant's staff member to distribute the meals — chicken tagine with rice.

The recipients were very appreciative, and everyone loved the food...

Cafe Mogador turns 40

Today, Rivka Orlin and her family celebrated 40 years of serving Moroccan-inspired cuisine at Cafe Mogador, 101 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...

 

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Cafe Mogador is open now in the evenings for takeout and delivery

Cafe Mogador, a mainstay of St. Mark's Place these past 37 years, reopened last evening here between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Moving forward, they'll be open nightly from 5-10 for takeout and delivery.

Meanwhile, more and more East Village restaurants-bars-cafes are back in action of late, a fairly lengthy list that includes Kanoyama, Davey's Ice Cream (now with sandwiches for lunch!), El Camion, Takahachi, China Town Chinese Restaurant, East Village Social and Mighty Quinn's Barbecue, among others.

To help you sort out all these reopenings, the volunteers are continuing to update the map created in collaboration with the East Village Community Coalition. You can access the map at this link.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Updating: Here's a map of what's open in the East Village

Thursday's parting sidewalk bridge shot

Workers were erecting a sidewalk bridge late this afternoon at 101 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue... home to Cafe Mogador, whose sidewalk cafe now gets some extra, and maybe unwanted shade.

Permits for the sidewalk bridge don't appear to be on file with the city just yet.

Cafe Mogador: Still got it?

In the "Throwback Thursday" column at Fork in the Road this week, Kevin Kessler writes about the 31-year-old Cafe Mogador at 101 St. Mark's Place.

And?

Mogador is, arguably, the truest culinary expression of what was once called a modern East Village restaurant. It's hip, laid back, and older than it seems (it opened in 1983), but it's also vibrant.

The food still works too. "The café serves ultra-reliable Mediterranean fare from breakfast through dinner."

All of which reminds me that I haven't been here in a very long time.

Cafe Mogador closed until Sept. 14 for renovations

And only yesterday did I learn that Cafe Mogador on St.. Mark's Place closed Monday for renovations...

Per the sign... they reopen Sept. 14...

And workers are actually renovating the space... this isn't a case where "closed for renovations" is code for "we're really closed, but don't want to tell anyone yet... so that maybe we can get a head start out of here." Or something like that.

[Originally noted via the EVG Twitter account, where all the action is!]