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Mother's Comfort Food and Cocktails opens in Park Road Shopping Center
Mother's Comfort Food and Cocktails is in its soft opening phase at the Park Road Shopping Center, with a grand opening Thursday, Aug. 14.
Why it matters: Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner all day, its massive 130-item menu has something for everyone, even your pups, which are welcome on its outdoor patio.
Dig in: Its menu features giant portions to match, made to share and have enough to take home. They also offer daily specials, including:
"Steak Sunday," where you can get a rib eye for $24.99 after 2pm.
Martinis are $10 on "Martini Mondays," and Old Fashioned drinks are $10 on "Old Fashioned Friday."
"Where's my wife Wednesday" features half-off wine and $11.99 pasta.
Kids 12 and under eat free on Thursdays.
Context: This is the first East Coast location for the California-based restaurant known as "Mama's" on the West Coast.
Co-owner and founder Pete Truxaw has over 40 years of restaurant experience and opened the first Mama's Comfort Food and Cocktails after the Great Recession in Huntington Beach, California. The idea was to offer big portions so you could go home with leftovers. "It's like your mother's house," he tells Axios.
Truxaw recently moved to Charlotte as part of the restaurant's expansion. "If you want to open a business in a community, you have to be a part of it," he said.
Between the lines: Over the last 15 years, Mama's has raised over $1 million for organizations in its surrounding communities, and Truxaw hopes to bring the same philanthropic spirit to Charlotte.
Mother's has chosen two outstanding charities to support: Isabella Santos Foundation and Go Jen Go.
$0.25 from every scoop of Gifford's premium ice cream will go toward the Isabella Santos Foundation, helping fund research and provide support to families affected by rare pediatric cancers. Plus,
$1 from each order of the "Go Jen Go" Garden Scramble will benefit the nonprofit, which provides financial assistance to people in the Charlotte area battling breast cancer.
Stop by: 4101 Park Road, in the former Cantina 1511 spot.
Open 8:30am-10pm daily.
What's next: Mother's will open a second East Coast location in Greenville, S.C., next year.
