G&G Goes Pink!
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Grain & Grit team is going pink! This month, we will be supporting the Shades of Pink California, a local organization that provides monetary assistance to women who are experiencing financial distress as a result of a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Support a good cause!
Our restaurants will be offering food and drink specials October 19-25, 2020, where a portion of sales will go towards supporting the Shades of Pink California!
The Cure
Old Harbor Vodka, raspberry, thyme, lemon, soda.
The Survivor
Dobel Diamente, House-made spicy watermelon mint agua fresca, lime juice, with Dobel black lava salt
50% from every cocktail will be donated
The Phyllis
El Jimador, prickly pear puree, agave, lime, chili lime salt
Named after Carnitas’ managers mom who lost her battle to breast cancer
The Joyce
El Jimador, watermelon syrup, agave, fresh lime
Named after Carnitas’ supervisor mom who fought breast cancer and won.
$1 from every cocktail will be donated. Carnitas’ will match all donations!
Grab some Pink Soft Serve!
$1 from every soft serve will be donated. Carnitas’ will match all donations!
The Broken Yolk Cafe
Orange & Costa Mesa Location
Get your brunch on with a delicious Pink Mimosa!
$2 from every mimosa will be donated
A Story from Howard Solomon
My mom was childhood friends with Susan Komen. Susie’s family, including her little sister, Nancy (who actually started The Susan G. Komen Foundation and “created” the global breast awareness movement) lived next door to my aunt in Peoria, IL. My aunt picked my mom up from school because both my grandparents worked. Susie and my mom played together in the neighborhood every day after school for years. Through that friendship, my mom got involved in Susie’s foundation early on before it was a nationally/globally recognized foundation. My mom was on the committee that brought The Race for The Cure to Peoria, IL in 1986. By 1989, the race in Peoria became the largest all women’s race on the planet. Participants from Europe, Asia, Africa, etc... came to Peoria to run in the race and bring awareness. Now the compelling part of my story, which I start to tear up every time I tell the story. In year 2 of the Peoria race, “3 Miles of Men“ was born. For the last 3 miles of the race, the men lined the race route streets of Peoria and cheered and clapped as the women ran by and they did this until the very last woman crossed the finished line. They cheered just as loud, if not louder, for last runner as they did the first group. It was one of the emotional moments I have ever experienced. About 3 years after the race in Peoria was founded, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy and is a 28 year survivor!
A Story from Katie Pena
My mom, Phyllis Ann Willis, was gregarious and studious. She was capable of anything and knew everything. She watched ice skating and tennis, but could tell you the latest stats of who is in the playoffs for the NBA or NFL. She loved to read and always had a book at her bedside, which would explain why she could win the game Trivia Pursuit with ease, or smoke you in Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. She raised my sister, brother, and I in the military lifestyles of the late 70s to the early 90s, moving back and forth overseas and stateside. She could get by with her French and German skills with ease. She hosted endless wives events while overseas, creating a welcoming and familiar environment for them while their husbands were out in the field. She loved to window shop, pretty much any genre of music you can think of, and coffee. She could play the piano and keep up with politics. She did so much in such little time, it was like she was making up for the limited time she knew she had because she left us very shortly after her 49th birthday.
