Where is the Love, Yelp? Only 5 Black-Owned Restaurants Made Your Top 100 List This Year?

The people at Yelp simply got here out with their tenth annual record of Top 100 Places to Eat in 2023. The website devoted to connecting folks with native companies analyzed thousands and thousands of person critiques and neighborhood strategies to compile an inventory of their favourite locations to get meals (in addition to their grandma’s kitchen, in fact). And the outcome featured eating places representing 30 states throughout the nation.

Taking the prime spot, was Broken Mouth, a well-liked Korean consolation meals spot in Los Angeles. And of the 100 eating places on the record, these 5 Black-owned spots made the reduce:

# 9 – Selam Ethiopian & Eritrean Cuisine – serving conventional Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes in Orlando, Florida

#16 – Crumbville – a bakery situated in Houston, Texas

#17 – Ekiben – a well-liked Asian fusion restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland

#24 – Zenaida’s Café – a consolation meals vacation spot in Las Vegas, Nevada

#28 – Baobab Fare – an East African restaurant in Detroit, Michigan

Now we all know that individuals’s opinions on their favourite meals can range as a lot as their politics and their favourite soccer groups. So we anticipated to see all the pieces from cozy, family-owned neighborhood joints to swanky downtown sizzling spots on the record. But right here at The Root, we couldn’t assist however surprise how in the identify of all that is holy, did solely 5 Black-owned eating places make this record? I’m certain anybody who has discovered themselves ready in line at Batter and Berries in Chicago, Slutty Vegan in Atlanta or New York, or Fixins Soul Kitchen in California, can all agree that Black people know easy methods to get down in the kitchen.

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So let’s assist these Yelpers out. Even for those who don’t use the website, you possibly can pay it ahead and assist join customers with nice Black-owned eating places round the nation. If you’ve gotten a favourite restaurant that didn’t make Yelp’s record (and odds are, you do), drop it in the feedback under.