To celebrate Black History Month this February, Yelp is announcing its “Black-Owned Businesses to Watch in 2021” list. The list is compiled of highly rated and popular Black-owned businesses to support across the beauty, home and food and restaurants categories.
To determine this list, the review site selected businesses who have self-identified with the Black-owned attribute on Yelp, and who have been included in business collections with “Black-owned” or “Black owner” in the title. These businesses have also shown increases in average ratings and review counts in 2020 compared to 2019, or opened in and after January 2019.
Over the last year, people have turned to Yelp to find and support Black-owned businesses in unprecedented numbers. Searches for Black-owned businesses were up 2,400% in 2020, compared to 2019, and review mentions were up 232% for the same time period.
The following are the food businesses included in Yelp’s list:
- Purple Gurl’s - Glendale, AZ
- Cafe Desta - Tucson, AZ
- Crumble & Whisk - Emeryville, CA
- Tribute Coffee - Garden Grove, CA
- LeeVonYe Treats - Hayward, CA
- Barsha - Hermosa Beach, CA
- West of Orleans - Thousand Oaks, CA
- Nola Voodoo Tavern - Denver, CO
- Konjo Ethiopian Food - Edgewater, CO
- Cane - Washington DC
- Here’s The Scoop! - Washington DC
- Mixed Fillings Pie Shop - Jacksonville, FL
- Red Rooster Overton - Miami, FL
- Chicken Fire - Orlando, FL
- StreetWise Urban Food - Orlando, FL
- Hot Chicks House of Chicken - Pembroke Pines, FL
- Southern Kitchen & Grill - Atlanta, GA
- Kupcakerie - East Point, GA
- Sweet Brown Suga - Grayson, GA
- Love That Spice - Highland Park, IL
- Island Vybz Mobile Rasta-rant - Iowa City, IA
- Addis Nola - New Orleans, LA
- Gangster Vegan Organics - Baltimore, MD
- Ingera Rock Ethiopian Cuisine - Rockville, MD
- Steve’s Hot Dogs - St Louis, MO
- The Coffee Class - Las Vegas, NV
- Grays Banana Pudding - Las Vegas, NV
- Lighthouse Coffee - Sparks, NV
- Freetown Kitchen - Maplewood, NJ
- Ras Plant Based - Brooklyn, NY
- Teranga Harlem - New York, NY
- Leah & Louise - Charlotte, NC
- Smallcakes Steele Creek - Charlotte, NC
- Cream + Sugar Coffeehouse - Cincinnati, OH
- Donna’s Delicious Dozen - Columbus, OH
- Black Coffee Lounge - Cincinnati, OH
- Black Walnut - Oklahoma City, OK
- Grey Sweater - Oklahoma City, OK
- Mumbo Gumbo PDX-Sellwood - Portland, OR
- Nacheaux - Portland, OR
- Brown’s Bar-B-Que - Austin, TX
- Scoop and Score - Cedar Park, TX
- Shoals Sound & Service - Dallas, TX
- Cookie Society - Frisco, TX
- Binge Kitchen - San Antonio, TX
- Della J’s Delectables - Springfield, VA
- CLTRE vgn jnt - Virginia Beach, VA
- Happy Cafe - Virginia Beach, VA
- Métier Brewing Company - Woodinville, WA
Yelp encourages consumers to seek out and support Black-owned businesses, and has made it easier for them to do so by launching a free searchable attribute that gives businesses a way to identify themselves as Black-owned.