Cuore Italian Deli owner Rudy Siano
- Credit: Giles Deards
There was Easter excitement for children around Willesden last weekend, thanks to Cuore Italian Deli.
A traditional treat at Easter in Italy is the flame egg, made of chocolate wrapped in colourful paper, with a surprise inside.
Cuore Deli, in Sidmouth Road, imported 125 of these eggs and they were delivered as gifts to schoolchildren who receive support from the Gift Your Neighbour initiative, which delivers food aid across the Queens Park, Kensal Green and Brondesbury area.
Cuore also ran a raffle that included a 5kg flame egg first prize, an Easter hamper and two other eggs over 1kg, raising £1,235 for Gift Your Neighbour - enough to buy a month’s worth of food for the 78 families supported.