List of Black-owned restaurants
Following is a list of notable current and defunct Black-owned restaurants, including food carts and food trucks, sorted by location (of headquarters in cases of chains):
United States
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Arkansas
[edit]- Jones Bar-B-Q Diner – Marianna[1]
California
[edit]- Hawkins House of Burgers – Los Angeles[2]
- Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles – Los Angeles[3]
District of Columbia
[edit]Georgia
[edit]- Blaze Pizza – Atlanta (franchise formerly based in Pasadena, CA)[5][6]
- Busy Bee – Atlanta[2][4]
- Mary Mac's Tea Room – Atlanta[2]
- Paschal's – Atlanta[7]
- Slutty Vegan – Atlanta[8]
Louisiana
[edit]- Dooky Chase's Restaurant – New Orleans[2]
Maryland
[edit]- Huncho House – Hyattsville[9]
Mississippi
[edit]- Bully's Restaurant – Jackson[10]
Nebraska
[edit]- Jackson's Fair Deal Cafe – Omaha[11]
New Jersey
[edit]- Corinne's Place - Camden[12]
New York
[edit]- Charles' Southern Style Kitchen – Harlem
- Sylvia's – Harlem[2]
North Carolina
[edit]- Bird Pizzeria – Charlotte[13]
- Saltbox Seafood Joint – Durham[14]
Oklahoma
[edit]- Florence's Restaurant – Oklahoma City[15]
- Grey Sweater – Oklahoma City[16]
Oregon
[edit]- Akadi – Portland[17]
- Amalfi's Italian Restaurant – Portland[17]
- Assembly Brewing – Portland[18]
- Atlas Pizza – Portland[19]
- Deadstock Coffee – Portland[20]
- Dirty Lettuce – Portland[18]
- Erica's Soul Food – Portland[18]
- Everybody Eats PDX – Portland[21]
- Grits n' Gravy – Portland[22][23]
- Joe Brown's Carmel Corn – Portland[19]
- Kann – Portland[24]
- Kee's Loaded Kitchen – Portland[17]
- Nacheaux – West Linn (previously Portland)[17]
- Olive or Twist – Portland[25]
- Queen of Sheba – Portland[18]
- Reo's Ribs – Portland[17]
- Santé Bar – Portland[26]
- Viking Soul Food – Portland[17]
Tennessee
[edit]- Prince's Hot Chicken Shack – Nashville[27]
Texas
[edit]- Frenchy's Chicken – Houston[28]
Washington
[edit]- Black Coffee Northwest – Seattle[29]
- Boon Boona Coffee – Renton[30]
- Café Avole – Seattle[31]
- Cafe Campagne – Seattle[32]
- Communion Restaurant and Bar – Seattle[32]
- Ezell's Chicken – Seattle[32]
- Fat's Chicken and Waffles – Seattle[31]
- Jackson's Catfish Corner – Seattle[31]
- Lil Red Takeout and Catering – Seattle[31]
- Marjorie – Seattle[31]
- The Original Philly's – Seattle[33]
- Osteria la Spiga – Seattle[34][35]
- Plum Bistro – Seattle[32]
- Quick Pack Food Mart – Seattle[33]
- Shikorina – Seattle[36]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Pannell, Ni'Kesia (February 06, 2023). 20 Historic Black-Owned Restaurants You Need to Eat At. Many of these spots have held a place in Black and American history for decades — and each serves food like you can't get anywhere else. Food Network.
- ^ Miller, Adrian (September 8, 2020). The Layered Legacy of Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles. "More than any other African American-owned restaurant, Roscoe’s has become part of popular culture, especially in motion pictures." RESY Los Angeles.
- ^ a b Michelin Guide (February 12, 2024). 25 Black-Owned and Led MICHELIN Guide Restaurants.
- ^ Hodges, Bebe (May 24, 2024). LeBron James-approved Blaze Pizza to open 5 more restaurants in Greater Cincinnati. "Basketball star LeBron James is a well-known co-owner and investor in the "Fast-Fire'd Pizza" franchise. ... he also owns 19 franchise locations." Cincinnati Enquirer.
- ^ KABC (June 7, 2024). Blaze Pizza moving its headquarters from Pasadena to Atlanta.
- ^ Miller, Adrian (February 3, 2023). Black Restaurants that Fed the Civil Rights Movement. Havens that have also made history: These five dining establishments were pivotal in the South and can still be visited today. Southern Living.
- ^ Restrepo, Manuela Lopez (February 21, 2022). Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole on creating a Black-owned, plant-based empire. Salon.
- ^ EBONY Eats 45 is a curated list from staff and editors at Team EBONY of our favorite Black-owned restaurants and Black chefs from across the country. Ebony.
- ^ 10 Black-Owned Restaurants You Want to Visit in JXN. VisitJackson.com.
- ^ O'Brien, Erin (May 3, 2023). Experience These Black-Created Businesses & Attractions in Omaha. Visit Omaha.
- ^ Philadelphia Inquirer (September 27, 2018). Corinne’s Place. photo: Owner Corinne Bradley-Powers stands for a portrait at Corinne's Place in Camden, N.J.
- ^ Michelle, Jahaura (July 10, 2024). Black-Owned Pizzeria in Charlotte featured on the New York Times' Best Pizza List as They Begin to Expand to Sit-Down. Blavity.
- ^ Glazer, Fern (September 14, 2020). These Black-owned restaurants were saved by the social justice movement. Nation's Restaurant News.
- ^ Cathey, Dave (February 14, 2022; updated May 12, 2022). Check out these 20 Black-owned restaurants in OKC. The Oklahoman.
- ^ Muhammad, Nylah Iqbal (July 24, 2023). James Beard winner Andrew Black goes off menu in Oklahoma City. Andscape.
- ^ a b c d e f "These Black-Owned Portland Restaurants Are Offering Takeout and Delivery". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
- ^ a b c d Ham, Robert (June 3, 2020). "Help Support Portland's Black-Owned Restaurants". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
- ^ a b "20+ places to try during Black Restaurant Week in Portland". KOIN.com. 2021-02-23. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
- ^ "A list of Black-owned businesses in the Portland-area to support this Juneteenth". KPTV. 15 June 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Pandemic Success Story: Everybody Eats PDX Brings Black-Owned Dining Back to the Pearl". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ KPTV FOX 12 (February 29, 2024). Popular breakfast spot taking part in Portland's 'Black Restaurant Week'
- ^ Grits n' Gravy: "the oldest Black-Owned Restaurant in the city."
- ^ Pierre, Sabinna (July 17, 2024; updated July 18, 2024). Ebony magazine names Kann in Portland as one of top 45 Black-owned restaurants in US. Kann was the only restaurant from Oregon to make Ebony magazine's Eats 45, which features award-winning Black-owned restaurants and chefs from around the U.S.
- ^ "Celebrating Black leaders in Portland". KGW. February 18, 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "How Hard Is It to Live Exclusively in Portland's Black Economy?". Willamette Week. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Owens, Mye (February 2, 2023). How Prince’s became the first Black-owned hot chicken spot in Nashville. WKRN.
- ^ NBA.com (February 18, 2023). 10 Black-owned restaurants to visit in Houston. From Frenchy’s Chicken to Soul Food Vegan, we spotlight locations to eat in the Houston area.
- ^ Doyal, Kiara (July 31, 2024). Black Coffee Northwest: Brewing Coffee, Community Empowerment And Cultural Growth. "a Black-owned coffee shop in the greater King County area .." Seattle Medium.
- ^ Ansara, Aleenah (April 12, 2024). Coffee and Community: Efrem Fesaha showcases African coffee history through Boon Boona. UW Magazine.
- ^ a b c d e Vermillion, Allecia and Seattle Met Staff (February 2, 2023). A Guide to Seattle’s Black-Owned Restaurants: Not to mention bars, breweries, coffee shops, and all manner of great local spots. Seattle Met.
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- ^ a b Seattle Black-Owned Restaurants and Cafes. The Soul of Seattle.
- ^ Tomky, Naomi (2021-11-02). "These two Black-owned restaurants show how to support Black chefs". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ^ "170 Black-Owned Restaurants & Food Trucks In Seattle - Seattle". The Infatuation. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ^ CHS Staff (March 13, 2024). ‘YOU DESERVE A SWEET LITTLE TREAT’ — Shikorina Pastries now open on E Pike .. "Black, queer, and woman-owned .." Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.