Black-owned Creole/Cajun and soul-food cafe established 2008; founder invested her 401k after retiring from CenterPoint Energy.
Black- and woman-owned Southern Cajun/Creole restaurant and jazz lounge with live music, Creole brunch, seafood fondue, blackened catfish.
Upscale Southern fine dining blending New Orleans flavors with Pan-Asian and Latin influences; known for braised short ribs.
Trendy Southern brunch spot with creative wings-and-waffles dishes, crafty cocktails, and dessert twists.
Scratch-made Southern soul food — smothered oxtails, chicken and waffles, BBQ ribs, baked mac & cheese, collard greens.
High-profile Black-owned restaurant famous for stuffed smoked turkey legs; massive social following.
All-vegan brunch and coffee spot with Southern soul-food twists — boudain balls, shrooms and grits, cauliflower wings — in a
Longstanding Third Ward Caribbean cafe — jerk chicken, oxtails, brown stew chicken, plantains, garlic shrimp; acquired and reinvented by Marcus
Acclaimed southwest Houston Jamaican grill — oxtail stew, curried goat, jerk chicken, saltfish; featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and
Fast-casual West African concept (Jollof jambalaya, coconut curry bowls); started as a 2018 pop-up, now a MICHELIN Guide restaurant.
