NY Restaurant Week 2025 — 5 Black-Owned Restaurants That Will Have You Coming Back For The Full Menu

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Are you a foodie who must take a picture of all your meals before you eat it? Or maybe you’re someone who loves exploring new restaurants and expanding your palate on new dishes. Restaurant Week (Jan. 21-Feb. 9) allows you to do that on a budget.

And what better way to indulge than by supporting Black-owned restaurants that serve up amazing flavors and rich culture?

Here are five spots you won’t want to miss.

1. Melba’s

If you want to get a true soul food experience from a place that puts the soul of Harlem in their food, you must give Melba’s a try. The restaurant was established in 2005 by its founder Melba Wilson who was inspired to start her own restaurant after working in a few herself. Being born and raised in Harlem, Melba’s goal was to bring an exquisite dining experience back to her community.

For Restaurant Week, she curates a prix-fixe menu ensuring that it embodies the same essence of the original one.

She maintains the theme of comfort in the prix fixe menu, offering a three course dinner for $45 with some of her best dishes. Diners get their choice of one appetizer, one entrée, and one dessert. For the main course and appetizer, customers have three choices for each. They end their meal with a sweet surprise of dessert options.

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2. Kokomo

If you’ve got enough soul and you’re looking for more caribbean influence in your meal, head on over to Brooklyn and try Kokomo. This restaurant was born out of love and that’s what customers should feel when they taste their food. Owners Ria and Kevol Graham decided to share their love for each other and food to create a new and flavorful dining experience.

The couple kept things very mindful for restaurant week. They offered not just one but two menus. There is one for a three-course $60 meal. But if you are running a little low on funds, and still want to participate, you can! They have a second three-course menu that costs $30.

Both menus provide an array of options for customers from vegan to seafood to chicken to sweet desserts.

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3. Brooklyn Chop House

There’s also a place you can go that offers an upscale ambiance but is still affordable. Here’s Brooklyn Chop House. They have a wide-ranging menu that reflects the asian-steakhouse fusion they’ve created in their restaurant. Plus they have two different locations in the city for people to visit. Like the aforementioned restaurants, their menu for Restaurant Week has pre-selected options from their original menu.

It’s a three-course meal for $60 with vegetarian dishes, as well as Asian-inspired entrées and sides.

Some of those selections are: the impossible plant-based burger dumplings, shrimp or chicken satays with peanut sauce, Beijing chicken, filet mignon beef and broccoli, and much more.

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4. Bleu Fin Bar and Grill

Bleu Fin Bar and Grill is another Caribbean restaurant that gives their customers a fresh experience. Her menu features plates of Guyanese-inspired food and culture. The founder Hollis Barclay started the restaurant in her 50s right before the pandemic. Her journey in culinary began after she opened the first Black spa in Brooklyn. After 10 years, she made the decision to pivot from the wellness space in 2019, to bring new plates and flavors to the borough.

Honoring her heritage, Barclay crafted a menu that beautifully captures the bold, tropical essence of her homeland.

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5. Sweet Catch

Say you need a break from Caribbean and traditional soul food. Maybe you just want get your hands dirty in a good ole seafood boil. Kawana Jefferson offers that with her restaurant Sweet Catch in Brooklyn.

Sweet Catch is still fairly new after it opened just three years ago. With this new restaurant, Jefferson brought southern-style seafood to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Little Caribbean. Southern seafood is not such a popular cuisine in that area. So Sweet Catch is giving local diners and traveling customers a chance to experience new and delicious flavors of the sea.

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