If you love food as much as I do, then the next two weeks should be a treat for you. It is Chicago Black Restaurant Week and several restaurants will be showcased through Feb. 20.
Whether it's a black-owned café, bar, fine dining restaurant, juice bar or otherwise, you'll be able to enjoy all the restaurants have to offer while supporting a black business. Here is a list of participating restaurants:
Luella’s Southern Kitchen, Lincoln Square
Hidden Manna Cafe, Matteson
Kitchen + Kocktails Chicago, Streeterville
The Mukase Restaurant, Uptown
Surf’s Up South Shore, South Shore
Haire’s Gulf Shrimp, Greater Grand Crossing
Flippin Flavors, Beverly
Cocoa Chili Restaurant, West Garfield Park
Surf’s Up Bronzeville, Bronzeville
Pink Panini Soups & Salads, Hazel Crest
Taste 222, West Loop
Unbeatable Eatables, Evergreen Park
Afro Joe’s Coffee & Tea, Auburn Gresham
Good to Go Jamaican Restaurant, Evanston
Dozzy’s Grill, South Loop
Flavours Seafood Bar, Lynwood
Flammin Restaurant, Park Manor
Lemme Get Ummm, Galewood
Mabe’s Deli, Park Manor
CheSa’s Gluten Tootin Free Gourmet Food Truck, Avondale
Prāzbar Chicago (monthly pop-up), Grand Boulevard
Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat, Hyde Park
Surf’s Up Lombard, Lombard
Dock’s Chicago, Douglas
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, Douglas
Kozy Korner Deli, Dolton
Copper Still Martini Lounge, Homewood
Eddie’s Food & Liquor, Pullman
Demera Ethiopian Restaurant, Uptown
Surf’s Up Oak Park, Oak Park
The Black Vegan Restaurant, Little Village
Juiced by Shic, Midlothian
Phlavz Bar & Grille, Orland Park
Bureau Bar & Restaurant, Near South Side
Bureau Pizza Co, South Loop