The 10th annual Madison Black Restaurant Week, scheduled for August 10-17, will feature more than 40 restaurants, food trucks, caterers and other providers, several of whom are new on the roster this year.
One of those is Rasta Barista, a coffee shop that just opened in May on the first floor of the Black Business Hub on Madison’s south side.
Sei Kido and his wife Melissa come from coffee farming families — Sei’s in Liberia and Melissa’s in Jamaica. After forging careers in real estate and mortgage lending, the two pivoted to coffee. They buy certified Jamaican Blue Mountain beans — “the best in the world,” Sei Kido said — and roast it in small batches in the shop. They’ve also recently added jerk chicken to the menu…