Complete with all the fixings, our southern comfort food is sure to satisfy any appetite. The Pit Stop/Pit Stop Barbecue – not a restaurant but a take-out Thursday-Saturday only place with Soul Food you can count on. “Whether from Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, or the Carolina’s, southern BBQ is the sweetest and most sultry taste around. Best fried chicken wings in town and delicious collard greens that are clean (no salt pork or ham hocks detected). Slade’s Bar and Grill – Great Soul Food with live music and dancing. (Although our Caribbean and Latino cousins do.)ĭarryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen – While Darryl’s is dedicated to the Bar and Music it also serves soul food including the famous fried chicken made famous by the original soul food restaurant it is a successor to: Bob the Chef’s. And I lament the fact that Boston doesn’t have a sit-down, Southern Soul Food restaurant any more. Black-owned spot, The Rotisserie (and I call it a spot because it really isn’t dine-in), uniformed or lazy reporting neglected to mention a few other places to get Soul Food prepared by Black chefs – some “healthier” and some prepared as they always were. Louis Soul Food is now represented nationally by Sweetie Pie’s restaurants on the reality show featuring Miss Robbie and her extended family on the OWN network.) My family also had a short-lived restaurant my parents and cousins owned, The Pig’s Inn. I grew up eating Soul Food – having watched my mom and grandmother and extended family members prepare it weekly at Sunday dinner as well as at the annual Kinloch Family Picnic held in Forest Park in St.

Black Americans and White Southern Americans ate much of the same food (even today in many “Southern” kitchens especially white-owned barbecue spots down South, the cooks are often Black). Soul Food has always meant traditional Black American cuisine with Southern roots both from the period of African captivity better-known as slavery where Black American cooks elevated the scraps they were given to eat, which retained some African elements in the New World. Both Blue Ribbon and Sweet Cheeks are owned by whites and don’t claim to be Soul Food restaurants although they do claim southern roots/affinity. According to the reporter, parishioners there suggested he visit two restaurants, Blue Ribbon Barbecue (in Arlington and West Newton) and Sweet Cheeks (in the Fenway) for healthier soul food. The article features the recently published Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller, a food historian, who visited the Boston area. How you gonna have two of three restaurants in a soul food article be owned by white people? Not because I’m not interested in healthier soul food (I am and do) but because of the fact that only one local restaurant cited in the article serves soul food and is owned by Black people.

A recent article in the Boston Globe, Savoring a healthier, revitalized soul food by Peggy Hernandez bothered me a bit. Harris Maxine's on Saint James Next Step Soul Food Cafe Norma Jean Darden Patti LaBelle Slade's Bar and Grill Soul Food A Taste of Country Cooking Edna Lewis Spponbread and Strawberry Wine The Pit Stop The Rotisserie United House of Prayer Kitchen Boston Vertamae Smart Grosvenor on Octoby Candelaria Silva This entry was posted in Black People Boston Community Food Pleasures Roxbury-related and tagged Carole Darden Coast Cafe Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen Downhome Catering Handy & Person Catering Jessica B.

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