Sweetcatch Poke: Fast Casuals honoring Pride Month with LTOs, donations
Although a parade may not be in the cards this year because of COVID-19, restaurants are still finding ways to honor LGBT Pride Month.
Sweetcatch’s Pride Poke has tuna poke marinated with spicy honey shoyu, scallion, onion, watermelon radish and sesame seeds. It’s topped with seaweed salad, pineapple, masago, red chili, cabbage and brown rice. Provided
Although a parade may not be in the cards this year because of COVID-19, restaurants are still finding ways to honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month and to commemorate the Stonewall riots of June 1969 — when people fought back against an early morning police raid, refusing to be arrested for patronizing a gay bar and being in openly gay in public.
More than 40 years later, the Supreme Court further advanced the cause of LGBTQ rights Monday, ruling that a civil rights law barring sex discrimination in the workplace applied to gay, lesbian and transgender workers. Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the decision, which was split six to three.
See below for a roundup of brands celebrating equality.
Sweetcatch Poke
New York-based Sweetcatch Poke is offering a veritable rainbow of colors and flavors in its Pride Bowl, with 50% of proceeds from the sale of the bowls being donated to The NYC Health + Hospitals LGBTQ Health Center, which is committed to empowering LGBTQ New Yorkers to living the healthiest life possible, according to a company press release. Sweetcatch’s flavor-packed Pride Poke is composed of tuna poke marinated with spicy honey shoyu, scallion, onion, watermelon radish, and sesame seeds, and is topped with seaweed salad, pineapple, masago, red chili, cabbage and brown rice.
The bowl is $16 and is available at the chain’s four locations at: 66 Madison Ave., 642 Lexington Ave., 100 Park Ave., and 125 Maiden Lane.
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