Remember the guy who helped you with your homework, took you to the zoo, showed you how to throw a football and taught you the difference between right and wrong?
Don’t forget Dad this Father’s Day, June 21, by taking him to a great restaurant with special offerings.
They include but are not limited to:
Dirty Birds Tiki Bar & Grill, 142 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach, will have a Father’s Day bash from 5 to 9 p.m. with free merchandise, a drum circle/sing-along, art demonstrations by Mike Gio and a “Dorky Dad” contest for prizes. Call 321-613-2580 or visit dirtybirdstikibar.com.
Ebb and Flow, 2655 N. Hwy. A1A, Melbourne, which will offer bison burgers ($22), BBQ chicken quarters ($14) and St. Louis-style ribs ($18), each served with grilled corn and Southern-style potato salad, from noon to 8 p.m. Live music will be performed from 1 to 4 p.m. Call 321-775-0025 or visit ebbandflowmelbourne.com.
Frigate’s Waterfront Bar & Grill, 1120 N. Harbor City Blvd., Melbourne, will have a chef-attended carving station, seafood station, sushi rolls, a hibachi table, butler-passed appetizers and other things from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 21. Cost is $55 per adult and $19 per child. Call 321-306-3800 or visit FrigatesWaterfront.com.
Pizza Gallery & Grill, 2250 Town Center Ave., The Avenue Viera, will have a meat-centric, all-you-can-eat “bro-ffet” with complimentary draft beer from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The price has yet to be finalized. Call 321-633-0397 or visit pizzagalleryandgrill.com.
This list will be expanded as information is received. Contact lyndowling@yahoo.com or via FLORIDA TODAY’s Facebook group, the 91,000-member www.facebook.com/groups/321FlavorWhereBrevardEats.
Fire at Tiny Turtle affects Junk Food Bakery, too
This first week of June was going to be the best ever for Junk Food Bakery.
It was going to provide cake for a wedding and the customers had kept on coming In fact, so busy was it that owner L (she is Lauren but always goes by “L”) Siegel-Rodriguez had five women working in her kitchen.
Then came the conflagration of May 29, when the bakery’s neighbor, The Tiny Turtle, was badly damaged by a fire that also knocked out electricity and affected just about everything else on the block.
For JFB, it is a nightmare. Gone was everything that makes a scratch bakery a scratch bakery: batters, icings, décor, flavorings, jams, fruits, puddings, lost when coolers no longer cooled. And gone were the livelihoods of those who worked in and managed the place.
“We’ve had no power,” Siegel-Rodriguez said on June 2. “Our connections are all melted. If we could get the power on, maybe we could get some of our orders done … some of our ingredients, but we have no idea when that will be. We’ve lost everything … It is so devastating.”
Although Siegel-Rodriguez hesitated to say how much JFB lost, Chris Salvemini, a communications professional who helps spearhead a couple of crowdfunding campaigns, said, “After losing air conditioning and power to its appliances, the bakery lost around $10,000 in backstock product.”
Siegel-Rodriguez admitted in husky tones that she was “so stressed,” but after Cocoa Beach and the way its residents and businesspeople behave at such times, brightened up. Siegel-Rodriguez is one of them, born and raised.
“Kelly and Moises (owners of The Tiny Turtle) are our landlords, so everyone knows them, so people I don’t even know are coming to see them, and us, giving us hugs and asking how we’re doing,” she said.
Catastrophic but not insurmountable
The financial losses, she described as “catastrophic,” but added that she believes the community will help JFB through. “Honestly, the thing I need right now is capital. I have a small cushion right now, but how long can that last?”
Now she simply hopes fundraising reaches its goal, $20,000.
To contribute to the GoFundMe for Junk Food Bakery, visit gofundme.com/f/help-junk-food-bakery-rise-again-after-fire.
To contribute to the GoFundMe for The Tiny Turtle, visit gofundme.com/f/rebuild-the-tiny-turtle-after-the-fire.
“We’re just getting the word out … We just want to get the power back and back to work,” Siegel-Rodriguez said.
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Treat Dad like a king on ‘his’ day at one of these Brevard eateries
Reporting by Lyn Dowling, For FLORIDA TODAY / Florida Today
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