Restaurants Across Vancouver Mix Up Cocktails For QMUNITY

There’s even more ways to celebrate Pride this year, as the The Mackenzie Room has rallied eight fellow restaurants to raise money and awareness in support of the Vancouver Pride Parade. Each venue features a pride-themed cocktail for the week of the festival from July 29-August 4, 2019, with a percentage of all proceeds will be donated to QMUNITY, a resource center. Each restaurant has designed their own unique cocktail, but all the cocktails will have the same unifying name: “Pride Ally #stillfighting50” in acknowledgement of this year’s Vancouver Pride Parade theme. (All photos courtesy of Katie Cross Photography)

Participating alongside The Mackenzie Room (Caledonia Wright) is Royal Dinette (Kaitlyn Stewart), Bar Tocador (Dale Styner/Guy Stowell), Como Taperia (Shaun Layton/TJ McWilliam), Gringos (Shoel Davidson), Nomad (Shawn Jones/Matthew Benevoli), Havana (Rich Charrois), Belgard Kitchen (Drew Scott) and Donnelly Group (Trevor Kallies).

Interviews with each in links below!

Three Brits * The Mackenzie Room * Royal Dinette * Nomad * Havana * Gringo * Como Taperia * Tocador * Belgard Kitchen

Kaitlyn Stewart, the 2017 World Class Bartender of the Year, has been using her platform at Royal Dinette to raise money and awareness around Pride for the past 4 years. This year she is excited to have the support of her industry to affect a greater impact.

A percentage of all cocktail proceeds will be donated to QMUNITY, an LGBTQ community centre located on Bute Street in the Davie Village that works to improve queer, trans, and Two- Spirit lives by creating support, establishing connections, and providing leadership. QMUNITY has been a pillar of the Vancouver community for 40 years creating safe spaces, and working on behalf of a person’s right to define their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

July 29th  2019 – Aug 4th  2019
9 restaurants (The Mackenzie Room, Royal Dinette, Como Taperia, Bar Tocador, Belgard Kitchen, Gringo’s, Nomad, Havana, Donnelly Group  Restaurants)
Cocktail Name: “Pride Ally #stillfighting50”
Portion of proceeds will be donated to QMUNITY