Black - Owned Restaurants in Kansas City
As part of the Black Lives Matter revolution, lots of lists of black-owned restaurants were shared, and Kansas City came out in wonderful support of the businesses in the metro. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, many of our favorites are no longer with us. Below is a list of restaurants I believe are black-owned, and still in business. As a Google Local Guide, I post about a lot of businesses; but my passion is supporting locally-owned small business, so I thought it would be fun to create this list. [Note about the image I chose: I had the opportunity to judge a Food Truck competition, and that’s the first time I enjoyed Mattie’s Vegan Foods. It was great, but I really loved the energy and passion of the owners!]
Anna’s Boulevard Bistro
Awaze
Back Porch Bar-B-Q
Bee Cees BBQ Catering and Rubs
Big Momma’s Bakery & Cafe
Big T’s Bar-B-Q
Blue Nile Cafe
Breakfast and Lunch Lovers
Brown Sugar Chicken & Donuts
Cake - A - Boo
Charlie D’s Seafood and Chicken
City Fish & More Restaurant
Crust + Pizza Kitchen III
Cultivare
Delta Trenz Soul Food
District Fish & Pasta
Dream Muscle Coffee
E&B Fish and More
Elevate Bare & Grill
Elsa’s Ethiopian
Equal Minded Cafe
Fannie’s West African Cuisine
Fat Jack’s
Finger Foodz
Forty 2 Restaurant and Lounge
G’s Jamaican Cuisine
Game Day Wings
Gates Bar-B-Q
Gigi’s Kale Chips
Gigi’s Vegan + Wellness Cafe
Happy Apple Cafe (vegan/vegetarian)
Island Spice Caribbean Restaurant
J’s Fish and Chicken
Jamdown Jamaican Kitchen
Jazzy B’s Diner
John’s Java and Jazz
Jones Bar-B-Q
Jumpin’ Catfish
Kaleidoscoops KCK
Kansas City Cupcake Co.
KC Daiquiri Shop
KC Juke House Blues & Jazz
KC Soul Sistas Food Truck
KC’s Wingbar
King’s Table Soul Food
Krab Kingz Seafood KC
LC’s Bar-B-Q
Love is Key
Lutfi’s Fried Fish
M&M Bakery & Deli
Mattie’s Vegan Eats
Merkaba Meals (meal prep, personal chef)
Mesob Restaurant
Mr. R’s Cafe
My Village Grill
Niecie’s Restaurant
OMG Coffee & Donuts
Peach Tree Cafeteria
Plantain District
Prana Nutrition
Queens Kitchen (vegetarian)
R&R Paseo Grill
Reggae Kitchen
Revocup – Town Center
Ruby Jeans Juicery
Sankofa Cafe & Bar
Shots by Miko
Show Me Fish & Chicken
Skratch Bakery
Smaxx Burgers and Wings
Soiree Steak and Oyster House
Steak’m Take’m
Sweet Thang Cafe
Taste of Africa
Taylor Elizabeth Cakes
The Breakfast and Lunch Lover’s Restaurant
The Brgr Spot
The Combine
The Distrikt Biskuit House
The Food Factory KC
The KC Juke House Blues and Jazz Bar
The Vegan Spot
The Velvet Freeze Daiquiris
Topknotch Vegan Vittles
Unk’s Burgers
Urban Cafe KC
Vee’s Sweets and Treats
Vegan Crave
Velvet Freeze Daiquiris
Way Gwan
Wilson’s Pizza and Grill
Wings ‘n Things Express
Wings Cafe
Wingz and More
Yogurtini (Plaza, Shoal Creek)