Boston’s exciting Black food scene isn’t hard to find, especially if you know the best neighborhoods for tapping into it.
A fixture destination of New England, Boston’s culinary offerings are typically highlighted as seafood and Italian American cuisine. Clam chowder, fresh oysters, lobster rolls, and the mom-and-pop restaurants of Little Italy all come to mind. Also worth noting is the city’s iconic Boston cream pie, which was invented at the Omni Parker House hotel’s Parker’s Restaurant in the late 19th century.
Many may not know that Boston is also a hub of multicultural cuisine. And especially when it comes to flavors of the Black diaspora, locals and tourists alike have a wide variety of places to enjoy flavors from home and new dishes from Black culinary dynamos. Boston is home to significant Haitian, Jamaican, and Cape Verdean diasporas, who’ve all brought along meals from home and set up shop…