Housemade Andouille sausage with pretzel knot, pimento beer cheese, plantain mustard, spring onion and house pickles ($14).Some of the items listed on the Black Restaurant Week website for Oko include: Jamrock ($19) – Oxtail slow-cooked in traditional Jamaican seasoning and spices and served with rice and peas, sweet plantainsĭetails: 225 East Santa Clara St., San Jose.Bolt ($14) – jerk chicken served with rice and peas, sweet plantains.Skankin Sweet ($27) – escovitch red snapper fried and served with rice and peas, sweet plantains, Jamaican festival bread.Kingston ($16) – curry goat with white rice or rice and peas, sweet plantains.Stir It Up ($13) – jerk tofu with rice and peas, sweet plantains (vegan and gluten-free).Rasta Pasta ($12) – penne in coconut-cream sauce with bell peppers, garlic, cherry tomatoes, sweet plantains (vegan).Most entrees come with a choice of either in-house pickled cucumber, carrot and red-onion salad or steamed veggies (vegan). This restaurant is discounting its most popular dishes. Pollo guisado chicken wings at alaMar Kitchen in Oakland, one of the restaurants participating in the Bay Area’s 2023 Black Restaurant Week. (For the full list of participants, check out /bay-area-black-restaurant-week). Without ado, here is a sampling of what Bay Area Black-owned restaurants and businesses are preparing.

While not every place has posted their specials, we called around and got a good preview. “The mission: feed and fuel the cultural famine – especially with an emphasis on reviving and saving the Black restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic – and educate consumers on the abundance of cultural cuisines and dispel ethnic untruths.” employer businesses are minority-owned, according to the U.S. “The odds are continuously stacked against Black-owned culinary businesses and their survival is still in jeopardy as they face constant economic downturns due to recovering from the pandemic while currently coping with inflation. BottleRock Exclusive: Here’s what’s really cooking on Culinary Stage in 2023

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