Senoia restaurant Borgo Italia gives back for Thanksgiving

And on a lighter note, head to Senoia, where a restaurant there plans to serve first responders, service members and people who are alone meals the day before Thanksgiving. It's a noble effort. And our Fox 5's Doug Evans is inside the restaurant. Doug, what do we know? I am inside Borgo Italia on Main Street in Senoia. There's no one here now because they're in between their lunch and their dinner service. But let me tell you, Tom, it smells so good in here right now. So listen, the Folquito family has a really great tradition here in which on Thanksgiving Evening, they opened their doors to the community. Anyone who is spending the holidays alone, they welcome them in, bring your dishes. They're going to add to dishes. They'll put them all out on the table. It's free of charge. And they just don't want people to be alone. And they want them to have a place to go on Thanksgiving. They immigrated from Italy in the last 15, 17 years or so, so they say they know what it's like Let me introduce you to Chris Folquito and her brother Alex in an interview I did with them just a few minutes ago. So when we first came it was just my mom and myself moving from Italy and we felt a little bit alone on a holiday such as Thanksgiving. We went to a restaurant but it felt very impersonal so since we opened a restaurant afterwards we decided let's have people that have felt like we did or people that simply cannot afford to have a proper Thanksgiving meal to come You come and celebrate with us, no charge. No question asked, just come and celebrate with us. So the thing is, what I try to stress out is that I do know how hard it is to accept that you are alone. How humble it is to be to show up in a place that doesn't even know you and ask, can I join you? But that's I think it's a part as a human is our goal to share the fact that somehow in our path we all be in a time of struggle and when the time of struggle I think the best things you can do is just recognize your struggle and try to find friends, community. I mean, coming from Italy, for us, community and family, it's amazing, it's amazing. In Carabao, I mean, it's just, that's who we are. And then, unfortunately, sometimes in America, because America is so big, it can happen that you have your family is really not because it doesn't like you it's really from miles and miles away work forever life situation you are by yourself so it doesn't mean a struggle you can come and join us and everybody um starting at six can come in and it's buffet so it's a you serve yourself we have a lot of food and you can come and have dinner or you can even just come and bring dinner home but you're welcome to stay and you know make friendship enjoy the fellowship and the companionship So again, that's owner Chris Velcito and her brother Alex. Just wonderful people who own Borgo Italian here in Senoia on Main Street. Again, at 6 p.m. opens Thanksgiving. Thank you. Bring your own dish, bring yourself, bring your family or whatever. They say if you're spending that day alone, join them at their restaurant here, Tom. It is heartwarming. It looks like a great restaurant, by the way, and I can only imagine. that smell you were talking about probably smells delicious in there right in between the lunch and dinner it does but this almost seems like that couple strikes me it almost seems like a a cultural gesture to sort of open their doors and welcome everybody and all into the restaurant to celebrate the good tidings of the holidays Yeah, I think Alex kind of said that a little bit. I mean, family and food and the coming together, that's very much Italian, right? And so I think that they bring that culture, their heritage to this as well, to this small town in Senoia. Really interesting folks. They've owned this restaurant for three years. They've been on the south metro side here with a restaurant for a number of years. A number of years, they moved it to Senoia, have a lovely patio and everything. Alex is an interesting guy himself. He's been in many, many Hollywood movies, is a retired Italian special forces, and helps run the restaurant here with his sister, Chris. And, you know, no shock that someone in Senoia here would have ties to the movie industry. He's a renaissance man, in the truest sense of the word. Yes. Any movies that we might recognize him in, or just a panoply of movies? I mean, come with me, come with me, come with me. There's a wall of fame here. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Senoia, right. The movie capital of Georgia. Yeah, Senoia. I think this is him here. You know, I'm not, Walking Dead was in The Walking Dead, Insurgent, there he is with Will Smith, Bad Boys for Life, man, he's Yeah, what a stunt man. What a cool wall of fame that is. Reason alone to go down and enjoy that restaurant. Just to see the history of some of the TV and motion pictures that he's been in. And just a really lovely place too, Tom. What a great view going the other way, Doug. Looking out the front of that restaurant on Main Street there. Out toward the patio and Main Street right outside that door. Fantastic. And what a wonderful gesture to open their doors and their hearts to people in the community there for the holiday season. Doug Evans. Doug, thanks so much.