Restaurants break out the rainbows with colorful Pride Month promos

Restaurant operators large and small are getting colorful this month with a slew of rainbow-hued promotions in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month. What’s more, many are supporting their LGBTQ communities by donating a percentage of the proceeds to local organizations. Check out some of June’s most creative and vibrant LTOs.

New York City-based Mexican chain Dos Caminos is offering up rainbow-tinted buttermilk pancakes with unicorn sprinkles and strawberry cream cheese topping on its brunch menu June 23-24.

Dunkin’ rolled out a limited-time Sprinkled with Pride doughnut that features strawberry frosting and rainbow sprinkles. The doughnuts are available at select units in Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Miss Ricky’s, the upscale diner inside Chicago’s Virgin Hotel, is serving a Fruity Pebbles Milkshake topped with a colorful cereal rim and rainbow cookie for Pride Month.

Just Salad’s Big Gay Garden Salad LTO includes romaine, red cabbage, tomatoes, avocado, carrots and banana peppers. One dollar from each salad sold will be donated to a local LGBT organization. The fast-casual chain is also selling Pride-themed T-shirts.

Numerous bars are crafting Pride-themed cocktail specials this June. In Chicago, Cindy’s offers up the Miss Vanjie with vodka, mezcal, Campari, rose and pink peppercorn, grapefruit and an orchid garnish. In San Francisco, the Living Room Bar at W San Francisco is serving a Harvey Milk Punch (vodka, herbal liqueur, orange juice, sweet cream and orange wheel garnish) and the Howard St. Hurricane (rum, gin, passion fruit puree, lime juice, grenadine and blue curacao with a purple orchid and mint spring). IO at The Godfrey Chicago is pouring a Rainbow Sangria with colorful fruit ice cubes.

Shake Shack is offering a Pride Shake, available only through the chain’s app. It’s a strawberry shake, blended with lemonade and topped with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles. One dollar from the sale of each shake will benefit a suicide-prevention organization for LGBTQ youth. Shake Shack is also selling Pride pins, T-shirts, tote bags and beach towels, with all proceeds benefiting the youth organization.

Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis is serving its new beer, Amber Has Two Moms, at restaurants around the area and at the Oca food stand in the brewery’s tasting room. Ten percent of proceeds from sales of the amber ale will go to LGBT organizations.

Chicago’s Furious Spoon ramen chain is dishing up the Pride Bowl, featuring chili-infused noodles, vegetable broth, spicy miso, Fresno chilies, chili shrimp, corn, scallions and Napa cabbage. Two dollars from each bowl will be donated to an LGBTQ healthcare center in the city.

Baked goods are a common go-to for the rainbow treatment. Pittsburgh small-plates restaurant Spork is serving The Tart during Pride Week. The dessert is a rye-crusted sour cherry pop tart with vanilla mascarpone pudding, bitter orange gel, glace orange zest, freeze-dried cherries and rainbow sprinkles. Rainbow macarons are on the menu at San Francisco bakery Kahnfections. The boxed set of cocktail-flavored sandwich cookies includes red daiquiri, orange bellini, yellow pina colada, green midori sour, blue moon and purple haze.

Piperi Mediterranean Grill, which sits along the Boston Pride Parade route, added a Pride Plate for a limited time. The dish includes beet tartare, carrots, cantaloupe with ginger and lemon, green pea guacamole, blueberry quinoa and grilled purple cauliflower with pomegranate molasses. One dollar from each plate goes to a local LGBTQ charity.