Category: Southern

Union District Oyster Bar and Lounge (Washington, D.C.)

“Yes! Another Black-Owned restaurant opening in D.C. again”, is what should be said in an area where a large number of Blacks live.  Instead, I’m left wondering why I can count the amount of Black-Owned restaurants on my hands and toes.  Washington, D.C., which was once dubbed as “Chocolate City”, has now become more of

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Florida Avenue Grill (Washington, D.C.)

I already know this restaurant is about to be fire (Genteelism), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once ate here.  If a restaurant has been in business that long, there’s nothing no one can say negative about it without getting their asses beat.  (Can you imagine saying something bad about this place?  Hell has no fury,

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Gilbert’s Southern Kitchen & Bar (Jacksonville, FL)

Eminence, quality, and meticulous, all of the words that describe me when I’m finished getting a haircut with thoughts of being hand-picked by Tyra Banks for America’s Next Top Model.  Okay, that maybe a little too far, but let a man live!  I often have to remind myself that I don’t live in a fantasy

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