What happens when you are a Miami native visiting Chicago, but missing your Aunt Roxanne’s amazing African-American dessert options like peach cobbler, banana pudding, and chess pie? You take a quick drive to the South side and give Miss Lee’s Good Food at 203 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637, a visit to…
The Hungry Black Man’s Chicago Black Owned Food tour was delicious, cultural and informative. Missing our Miami sun, we stopped at Sip and Savor for coffee, Anita’s Gumbo for delectable seafood, unimpeachable brunch at Batter and Berries, and outstanding BBQ at Bear Down BBQ. Then it was time to seek some good ole soul food.…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” Empty Plates is a cozy eatery amid residential apartment complexes at 6820 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33138, directly across from the historic Little River neighborhood MacArthur Dairy Farm processing plant, its only sign is a discreet logo on the north side of the building.…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” Nationally, Black folk are embracing Meatless Mondays and routine vegetarian and vegan dinners to improve health and celebrate the cruelty free movement. My health-consciousness notwithstanding, the desire for a slab of succulent, tender meat overcame me on my recent West Palm Beach Food tour,…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” In Miami, Hispanics are represented well with cafés, bakeries, and sandwich shops, Caribbean folk have everything from patty joints to full service restaurants featuring island cocktails and fire breathing sauces. Even Americans have our soul food, steakhouse, and BBQ joints sprinkled throughout our sunny…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” THIS LOCATION IS CLOSED! My family is overwhelmingly southern in every respect. As a native Miamian, with extended family in Georgia, Ohio and the Carolinas, family visits can be a bit taxing because most of my family members equate Spanish speaking people with being…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” While exploring the new Brickell City Centre with family or friends, you find yourself captivated by an alien, yet inviting aroma. Following your nose to the 3rd floor of this amazing new development, you arrive at the doorstep of Big Easy Wine Bar and…
Attending the 2017 South by Southwest (SXSW)—a festival of music, film and technology that metastasizes in Austin each March has been an annual tradition for me going on 5 years now. Now that I’m The Hungry Black Man, I asked myself a vital question – where do Austin’s Black people eat? In past years, I…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” If you’re following the changes occurring in Miami’s Overtown community, it’s natural to wonder if any of its glory days will be preserved. A once vibrant, middle class African-American neighborhood with the likes of Lena Horne, Muhammad Ali and James Brown as regulars now…
“If cameraman Korey (@KoreyDavisPhotography) doesn’t shoot it, I won’t eat it.” I remember hovering around my grandmother as she fried catfish listening to gospel and humming along with the likes of Shirley Cesar. Walking into Fantasy Twist Smoothie and Food Shop located at 654 N. University Dr. in Pembroke Pines, FL 33024, I had an…