Food and culture are intertwined, which is why Pensacola’s Five Sisters Blues Café found a way to celebrate Black History Month in the best way that they knew how: in their cooking. Five Sister’s Blues Café is featuring a month-long Black History Month menu based around Black culinary innovators who paved the way for food trends and traditions we see today.
“It needed to make sense for our restaurant,” Great Southern Restaurants Marketing Director Maria Goldberg said of celebrating Black History Month. “What made sense was there are so many chefs and innovators who aren’t recognized, a lot of them happened to be African Americans, so we picked these chefs, innovators who have made this really awesome contribution to the culinary field and wanted to highlight them.”
Five Sisters, positioned on the corner of Belmont and DeVilliers streets, was built on Black history due to the music, food and entertainment that filled The Blocks neighborhood. It was flood with cultural landmarks, such as Gussie’s Record Shop, WBOP Radio Station and Abe’s 506 Club. Through the restaurant, they now have the platform to continue to tell and celebrate Black stories, Goldberg said.