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Update: The menu [PDF] for Graffiato’s “Notorious B.I.G. & Tupac Tribute Dinner” no longer features items like “thug rice.” Instead the dishes are named after songs by the rappers and other hip-hop artists.
The dinner will also partially benefit Guitars not Guns.
Original post/December 18, 4:30 p.m.
Despite accusations of racism, Graffiato will still give a hip-hop-themed dinner in February. The “Tupac and Biggie Tribute” menu, which was published this week and featured dishes like “Thug Rice,” “Blood Money Sausage” and “Coke Floats,” is a “work in progress,” according to chef Mike Isabella.
The reaction to the menu for the $65 per person dinner was immediate, and it disappeared from the Internet sometime after the social media uproar began.
please stop this @Graffiato “East Coast vs West Coast: #Biggie & #Tupac Tribute Dinner” “BLOOD, BLUNTS, COKE”? wtf… pic.twitter.com/tEAP1fyOIy
— Miles Gray (@kingmilesiii) December 17, 2014
This #biggie & #pac so called “tribute dinner” by @Graffiato is pretty distasteful, no pun. Menu attached. pic.twitter.com/M14fsO52kY
— Christopher B. (@chrstphr_) December 17, 2014
“Thug Rice” Wow. RT @jacobsberg So hey, @Graffiato, maybe don’t do this: http://t.co/QFDvXSvcY3
— Kayla Gail (@kganthony) December 17, 2014
“The Graffiato dinner on February 2 is a celebration of hip-hop from two of the greatest artists of the ’90s,” Isabella said in a statement. “The menu is still a work in progress, and dishes will be inspired by songs, lyrics and classic east and west coast dishes.”
