Support Black-Owned Businesses in Your Community

Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C. (photo: James Collier)

Please join us in lifting up and supporting Black-owned businesses in your community.

Below are lists compiled by Black writers, activists, leaders, and diners. Please send information about other Black-owned restaurants and food businesses to media@jamesbeard.org.

To learn more about Black leaders in the culinary industry, we recommend following Black Food Folks on Instagram.

Black-Owned Restaurants and Businesses by City and Region

• Atlanta: Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Black People Eats
• Austin (Austin Monthly)
• Baltimore (Black People Eats)
• Boston (Boston Magazine)
• Charlotte (Charlotte Agenda)
• Chicago: Black People Eats and Seasoned and Blessed
• Dallas (Starving on a Budget)
• Houston: Black People Eats and the Houston Chronicle
• Los Angeles (L.A. Times)
• Marysville, WA
• Miami (Miami Herald)
• Minneapolis/St. Paul (City Pages)
• New Orleans (Black People Eats)
• New York City: Crowd-sourced list and the Infatuation
• Oklahoma City (OKC Eats)
• Orlando (ClickOrlando.com)
• Phoenix (AZ Central)
• Portland (Portland Mercury)
• San Francisco
• Seattle: Crowd-sourced list and the Seattle Times
• South Florida (Edible South Florida)
• Syracuse (Syracuse.com)
• Washington, D.C.: Black People Eats and Feed the Malik

Learn about more Black-owned restaurants across the country through Black Restaurant Week. Twitter user @LEXartistes has shared a general resource list for how you can engage if you’re not attending a protest. You can also support Black-owned restaurants through a relief fund organized by Black People Eats.