A Spanish priest with a long history of charitable work has established a restaurant that serves breakfast and lunch to paying customers, and uses the income to open the restaurant for free meals in the evening for clients of his soup kitchen.
The evening diners get the same service, with waiters and tablecloths, as those paying €11 earlier in the day. The restaurant goes by the name Robin Hood, for obvious reasons. About 200 a day get a turn at the restaurant meals, while others eat at the nearby church-based kitchen.
Father Angel Garcia, 79 and sometimes a thorn in the side of the church, set up his organization, Messengers of Peace, in the early 1960s to care for abandoned children; over the years its mission has grown to include other causes. He hopes to open several more restaurants on the same plan.
