“We want to continue to donate to those who can’t come for our food (at Graton),” Cotton said.
Cotton’s aunt, Dorothy King, was a fervent social justice activist and advocate who provided free meals to those without and regularly hired formerly incarcerated and homeless people to work at the restaurant.
Serving the community has long been part of the family’s mission. For more than a month, Cotton has been donating food to local nonprofits, including Becoming Independent, Redwood Gospel Mission, Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army, as the Everett & Jones team prepared the open-fire grill and dialed in the menu. The entire unit sits under a large ventilation hood.Ĭasino visitors won’t be the first to sample Everett & Jones’ new menu. A large upper oven is used for cooking and smoking the meat. Working with the resort, which is on sovereign Native American tribal land, Cotton was able to build out a double-decker steel cabinet encased in bricks that holds burning wood coals at the bottom.
We want to put our best foot forward,” Cotton said. “We wanted to be able to continue how we’ve been cooking for restaurants.
