Honest Black Business Reviews (Mostly) & Bits of Personal Randomness
To visit friends and get my dinner (yep, at 10 AM), I was headed toward the end of the lake (where all the markets are set up), but I didn’t quite make it because I noticed Grand Rising Food Truck. I’d seen the food truck advertised by some folks I’d met, so I’d be waaaaay outa (yes, “outa”) pocket not to stop and get me somethin’ to eat.
For as long as I’ve been in Oakland, D’Angelo–owner of Dr. Lemmon’s Guud Stuff–has been engaged in several entrepreneurial efforts and in activities related to preserving the economic viability of Black folks. Some years ago, he started a pop-up market, where he sells more than just Black-made products. Socks, toothpaste, incense, peroxide, toilet paper, dish soap, lotion: you need, he’s got it. Luckily, for me, he sells Black soap.
Last year, I kept a friend company at an event she was tabling, when we were offered some of the moistest, most flavorful cupcakes I’d ever tasted.
This Friday past, I popped into Gregory’s just knowin’ I was gonna get my hands on a coffee cookie. Yes, coffee.
In all the time I’ve been in Oakland — well, really, in all the time this restaurant has been open; I got here, first — I’d never gotten a chance to sit and eat at Kingston 11, a Jamaican food restaurant.
