Augusta Black Restaurant Week returns for the second year

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Final 12 months’s inaugural Black Restaurant Week was so profitable that it’s again once more this 12 months. The celebration kicks off Monday.

Right here’s why organizers and enterprise homeowners say this 12 months will likely be even higher than the final.

Greater than 20 eating places are a part of this 12 months’s Augusta Black Restaurant Week

Karen Gordon organized the occasion and mentioned it is a option to spotlight Black companies whereas having fun with a great meal.

“I need people to return out and luxuriate in these eating places, particularly this week, and we change their timing so that it’ll coincide with Juneteenth week,” she mentioned. “I need people to discover attempt one thing new, and I maintain coming again after which, in fact, inform different folks.”

Final 12 months the week targeted on getting clients into brick-and-mortar eating places. This 12 months they’re spotlighting personal cooks like Reginald White, who owns Black Lotus Delicacies.

“Lotus flower within the Japanese tradition tends to be as consultant as this sturdy, resistant flower as a result of it grows and swampy and soiled water regardless that it comes out to be this lovely flower. I really feel like African People, like anyone who’s struggling in life, will also be a lotus flower,” mentioned White.

White began his cell catering firm two years in the past.

He’s impressed by his love for anime and located a option to mix that with Black tradition.

“For $15 per particular person, we come to the house. You get an appetizer; you get to customise your bowl of ramen. Form of a fusion between two totally different cultures into one,” he mentioned.

Gordon says many small Black companies are sometimes undercapitalized and underfunded. They want your assist to prosper.

“We seen throughout COVID after which final 12 months that a whole lot of our small Black companies didn’t get the eye and didn’t get the reduction that among the different majority-owned companies had been capable of take pleasure in. We had an incredible response final 12 months. We’re wanting ahead to a good bigger response this 12 months,” she mentioned.

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