Black Restaurant Week highlights city’s ‘wealth of culinary talent’

Donnita Flanagan began her business, Passion T Plates, during the pandemic and recently opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Auburn Gresham. She’s participating in Black Restaurant Week, a nationwide effort to support Black-owned restaurants. (Provided)

During the pandemic, Donnita Flanagan, who worked as a property manager, began cooking and selling dinners out of her Auburn Gresham home while working from home to make extra money.

She would sell about 10 dinners, then 50, and sometimes lines would form down her block for people seeking her signature fried rice and pasta dishes.