Mexes Café in Boyle Heights. (Denise Florez/CALÓ News)
Mexes Café held a fundraiser this past Saturday to prevent closing and the community showed up.
“Thank you so much for making my dreams come true,” Adriana said in an Instagram video thanking the community that showed up to the fundraiser, “And making me realize that community is real.”
Stephanie Berenice posted a fundraiser for the coffee shop in Boyle Heights. “Mexes Café was created by a single mother with disabilities, a survivor of domestic violence, who lost her father and is fighting to keep the one safe place she built for the community alive,” she wrote on Instagram. “And I refuse to let her fight alone.”
“Cafecito with Bere” went viral and she later posted another video asking for chairs and tables.
People who attended ate chilaquiles, pupusas, tamales and drank strawberry matcha. One particular feature of Mexes Café is a machine that prints any image on your cafecito.
They also printed immigrant rights resources available for anyone who needs them.
The café has previously hosted events such as a meet and greet with then U.S. Senate candidate Barbara Lee, one of the few candidates that visited East L.A.
Mexes Café is located at 710 N Eastern Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90022.
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