Amid the protests in Minneapolis, Tomme Beevas has turned his restaurant into a hub for protection and supplies. (via bonappetit)
. His small Jamaican outpost on Eat Street, a neighborhood dominated by immigrant family businesses running through the middle of the city, has always been a welcoming gathering place for peoples of many backgrounds. I called Tomme and asked what these days have meant to him. —Stephanie March
Pimento never closed. We had to shut down our St. Paul restaurant due to the pandemic, but this Minneapolis spot has been open for carry-out the whole time. And now, during the protests, we still aren't stopping. We can’t stop—because our neighborhood needs us. for masks, gloves, medical supplies and water donations. The amount that showed up was amazing—we were overwhelmed with cases and cases of water, and people just kept coming by and dropping off more bags of supplies. Because the protests have been interrupting supply lines and shutting down public transportation, people couldn’t get food, so people from other neighborhoods brought food from their grocery stores into the city.
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