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These last couple of weeks have been really eye-opening and have all shown us some deeply
upsetting events that are absolutely unacceptable and we want to express our support for the
Black Lives Matter movement and the black community, in general.
We’ll never truly understand what so many Black Americans face, but we’re doing our
best to educate ourselves, support where we can, and above all else, listen and acknowledge
what people are saying.
We though to ourselves, “How can we use the PHILCAELA platform to help out?”.
And given that our audience comes to us for food recommendations in San Francisco, we
thought it made a lot of sense to highlight a handful of awesome spots in San Francisco
that are black-owned, so here are 5 Must-Visit Black-Owned Eats in San Francisco!
For brunch today, we brought back food from Little Skillet in Soma, so this is southern
comfort food.
So, I got the chicken and waffle, one of the most popular things on their menu.
I got a fried catfish over grits and we also got a ton of mushroom gravy to-go on it.
It looks super good and it’s still piping hot even though we got take-out.
What I love about the menu is that you can pick certain sides or different protein to
go with whatever you want, so it’s pretty customizable, so if you like one thing more
than the other, like mashed potatoes, you can pick that instead of grits.
They’re most well known for their chicken and waffles, but their menu has so much variety
that you can mix and match other items as you please.
This is really good flakey catfish and I love mushrooms so this mushroom gravy - there’s
so many mushrooms in it, actually!
It’s really delicious!
You put delicious grits in here, not super cheesy, but again everything is just better
with gravy.
Switching off now, Micaela’s got the grits with the catfish, I got the chicken and waffles
here, big chunk of chicken right here.
I like the grits here!
The grits here are not your very traditional grits where it’s very creamy, it’s less
cheesy, which I like because I don’t really like cheese, so I definitely prefer this.
Overall, Little Skillet is awesome, we loved everything we ordered, the chicken and waffles
were good, the catfish over grits was really good, too.
It’s a great spot in Soma for a soul food type of brunch.
And if you’re looking to support some black-owned eateries, but you don’t want a full meal,
check out Anthony’s Cookies, it’s a bakery in the Mission District that is known for
cookies and we got some of the most popular ones here.
We decided to come in and do take-out, anyway now we’re gonna take these home.
Boom!
And we have cookies at home now.
So we ordered 3 of their most popular flavors, which is the cookies and cream, the toffee
chip, and chocolate chip, this is the one I love the most, the cookies and cream, it’s
just like an Oreo cookie.
Once we brought it back home, we warmed it up in the oven just a little bit so it’s
a little warm, so it’s like you’re eating a cookie right out the oven (but you’re
not!).
Mmm!
These are good, cookies and cream, it’s like eating an Oreo, but better, a little
gooier.
This is the toffee chip, broke it in half, this is my piece, this is Phil’s piece,
I get the bigger piece because…
It’s fine.
You know?
I don’t think I’ve ever had toffee cookies before, have you?
I don’t think so, I like it, though!
I haven’t had Anthony’s Cookies in a while I forgot how good they were.
With the chocolate chip, this is really good, you can’t go wrong with a classic chocolate
chip cookie.
A lot of their more popular flavors like the toffee chip and cookies and cream that we
had tried here do sell out, so try to go earlier in the day if you want to make sure that you
can get them.
They also offer delivery and pick-up through GrubHub so if you’re too lazy to drive,
you know, you can do a delivery or if you wanna pre-order before showing up you can
do GrubHub to pre-order your cookies to make sure they’re in stock.
So also keep in mind these cookies aren’t your typical bakery cookies where they’re
much larger, they’re more homestyle so they’re a little tinier, but nonetheless they’re
still really delicious.
Overall, we’d really recommend Anthony’s Cookies for anyone looking for some delicious
treats.
They have the location in the Mission and Berkeley.
And the next spot on our list is Voodoo Love, it’s a restaurant serving up Cajun and Creole
dishes, right now they’re operating out of pop-up at the Red Dog restaurant, usually
they’re operating out of their location in Soma, but because of COVID, they had to
relocate for a little bit so check their Instagram to make sure that they’re there before you
order.
We called our order in and it’s ready to pick up now.
Oooh!
And we’re home now with the food, I got for myself a Big Azz Plate with sautéed shrimp,
Mac and cheese, collard greens, it’s a lot, and also some cornbread on the side.
And then I got the fried buttermilk chicken with French fries and yams, it’s like a
sweet potato mashed yam I think, oooh it’s sweet, it’s sweet, but it’s actually has
a spice kick to it.
It’s actually kind of spicy!
Didn’t expect that but it’s really good.
Whipped yams are a little spicy then!
Hits you at the end.
Oh yeah!!
Mac and cheese is absolute fire, oh my god.
The portion on the Big Azz Plate, they said on the menu online that it’s to share and
I guess I underestimated it.
I still think I can finish this, but this is gonna be a lot of food.
This is the kind of texture that Micaela loves on shrimp, it’s really big and puffy.
That’s a big ass shrimp.
Yeah it’s literally a big ass piece of sautéed shrimp right here.
As we’re filming this it’s the beginning of June, so pretty much every restaurant is
still take-out or delivery, we look forward to being able to try Voodoo Love once their
store reopens and we can dine in so everything can be like super fresh.
Chicken and this delicious sautéed shrimp here.
Nonetheless still really delicious!
We also found a phone number on the website where actually can text in our order so we
actually did that instead of ordering through an app so then the restaurants receives 100%
of the profits.
Overall, Voodoo Love is an awesome option for Cajun food in Soma.
Right now they’re doing take-out and delivery through GrubHub, but when their dining room
opens again, we’ll be sure to visit!
Sextant is a roastery that has a coffee shop in Soma, we actually had tried their coffee
at the SF Coffee Festival back in November and we really liked it.
We recently found out that it is a black-owned coffee shop, the owner is from Ethiopia and
the coffee here is super delicious, we’d really recommend you try it out!
They have all these traditional espresso drinks that you could have at most coffee shops,
but they have a couple specialties here including the Wired Ghandi, which is basically a dirty
chai, and they also have the Golden Latte that has turmeric in it.
So I got the Wired Ghandi, which is a dirty chai, and it’s very delicious it has the
perfect balance between coffee and chai, whereas most places will either have too much coffee
flavor or too much chai, but this one is definitely like the perfect balance and the beans are
amazing, the chai is good.
Perfect amount of spice.
We highly recommend Sextant Coffee and you must get their Wired Ghandi!
And the last spot on our list is gonna be Tadu Ethiopian, it’s a really popular spot.
They do food delivery through UberEats right now so that’s how we got ours delivered,
we didn’t go to the shop, but the food smells really good, I smell all the spices here and
we can take you through what we ordered.
I ordered the Beef Tibs, which is beef (obviously) sautéed with onions, jalapeños, garlic,
and other spices, so I think it’s like a beef stir-fry in a way.
Yeah, it smells really good and I ordered for myself the Special Kitfo this is actually
Tadu’s speciality and it’s basically beef, that (I got mine medium rare) - with a bunch
of different spices in it and butter.
And on the side we have a bunch of different bread here, we got a huge thing of bread.
To eat it I’m basically gonna take this bread here, put some of the meat on it, some
of these veggies off on the side.
I love how this tastes when you put everything together, the beef is yummy, it’s got that
buttery smoothness, the bread is good and also the veggies over here add a little bit
of a crunch, it’s very satisfying to eat.
We both ordered meat plates, however, when I was looking at the menu there were tons
of vegetarian options, so if you don’t eat meat, this is a great place for you because
Ethiopian food has tons of spices and lots of flavor, so even though you’re eating
vegetarian there’s a lot of punchy flavors to it, too.
Tadu is awesome, if you’ve never tried Ethiopian food before, we definitely recommend it, especially
if you like spicy food.
They have 2 locations, one in Mission Bay and one in Tenderloin.
Hopefully this video has been very informative and gives you some great ideas of awesome
black-owned businesses in San Francisco.
Obviously there are a ton more awesome businesses that we can also support, so we’re gonna
be trying to constantly support these businesses and we’re also leaving a link down below
of places that you can go to.
We really look forward to continuing our support of black businesses and like we stated in
the beginning of the video, we’re gonna be making monthly contributions toward the
Community Ready Corps using the proceeds from this video.
Thank you all for your support and we’ll see you next time!
Bye :)