Supporting Black Owned in Oakland

B-Love’s is a boutique hotel, gallery, and community garden in a lovely victorian house owned by artist and activist Traci “B-Love” Bartlow.

This guesthouse is perfect for the visiting artist or business professional and is centrally located in the Bay Area minutes away from San Francisco, downtown Oakland, Emeryville, and Berkeley. ​​

Essence Beauty Supply offers cosmetics, fragrance, skincare, haircare, appliances and gift ideas. Also provides beauty tips.

Feelmore Adult Gallery is a sex shop like no other. When you want something new and fresh, visit Feelmore. Located Downtown Oakland in the heart of everything. Vibrators and Lubricants.

A health and wellness studio providing Personal Training, Group Workouts, Nutritional Guidance, and here to aid you in your journey on your fitmap.

Shirley’s Designs & Alterations by Veda Ambeau is a locally owned and operated Alteration business in Oakland, Ca.

Shirley’s story begins in New Orleans, where Veda Ambeau, owner and proprietor of Shirley’s Designs & Alterations, learned to sew at the age of six alongside her grandmother, a master tailor, and her mother, a sewing teacher.

Founded 2007 by Sherri McMullen in Oakland, McMullen is an all inclusive concept shop for luxury womenswear featuring emerging and established designers from around the world.

In its twelve years, McMullen Oakland and Palo Alto have become well known for bringing global fashion and experiences to the Bay Area. Our brand is focused on supporting design and manufacturing that can impact communities and empower women. Aimed at filling the market gap, McMullen has a commitment to supporting African and African-American apparel and home décor designers.

Named one of the top boutiques in the country by Women’s Wear Daily, McMullen carries brands such as Jacquemus, Kamperett, Khaite, Rokh, Mara Hoffman, Nina Ricci, Petar Petrov, Christopher John Rogers, Jonathan Cohen, Rachel Comey, Proenza Schouler, Tibi, Ulla Johnson, and many more.

Welcome to Universal were we can supply you with all your hair care needs we carry a variety of quality hair care products. we also service all your hair care needs perms, color, press or flats irons and haircuts.

Bissap Baobab Oakland endeavors to become a go-to Oakland (Huichuin) destination for eclectic and inspiring live music, premier DJs, good food and good vibes in the Bay Area on Fridays and Saturdays.

West Oakland has a leader in the food world. Chef-owner Tanya Holland you saw on Bravo’s “Top Chef” (Season 15). She’s a culinary diplomat, representing soul food in her appearances around the world. What’s that got to do with your hunger?

Get the down-home dishes everyone’s talking about at Brown Sugar Kitchen: buttermilk fried chicken, oyster po-boys, Creole meatloaf, gumbo.

Smokin’ since 1973, Everett & Jones Barbeque restaurants and retail products black family owned and operated.

Animal and family-friendly patio.

“One Love” is painted in bold black letters on the outside of Kingston 11’s building — a reference to the Bob Marley song, of course, and also to this Jamaican restaurant’s sensibility: The first thing you’ll notice here is how friendly everyone is. But what will stay with you is chef Nigel Jones’ food, much of it lovingly slow-cooked over the course of many hours. The restaurant’s signature jerk chicken has the succulence and the deep smoky flavor of competition-grade barbecue, and a deep, penetrating heat that will clear your sinuses straightaway. Braised oxtails are cooked so long, and are so tender, that a fork is scarcely needed. And the curried goat, maybe the best dish of all (available Thursday to Saturday only), has an addictive soupiness and a low, slow-building burn that will linger in your memory.

Always Fresh and Delicious. Established in 2013. Lena’s Soul Food Cafe has been serving Oakland since 2013. Our mission is to provide delicious soul food in a warm & friendly environment.

Lena Mae Andrews passed away November 30, 2004. Lena’s Soul Food Cafe is the creation of her five children and two grandchildren in honor of her cooking legacy.

What started as a pop-up, catering, and delivery business has turned into a thriving, takeout-only brick-and-mortar in East Oakland. As the name suggests, Flip N Soul serves a mix of Filipino and soul food, which reflects the owners’ backgrounds and decades of family recipes. Some staples are available every day — lumpia, grilled steak, and chicken adobo among them — but rotating daily specials, such as roasted crab over garlic rice on Thursdays, are a major draw. The Flip team throws quite a few things in the fryer, and the best of them is the fried shrimp, which arrive just-cooked and juicy with an extra crunchy, panko crust.

A family-owned, family-run Black business, Rob Ben’s isn’t just about serving food; it’s an attempt to give back and stay family and remain in the Bay. Many of the items on the menu are named after family members and various streets and neighborhoods in Oakland.

Rob Ben’s serves a variety of comfort soul food such as their famous Shrimp & Grits, Oxtails, Chicken & Waffles, Poor Boy Sandwiches a variety of down-home southern sides. We also have a wonderful bar famous for our Beastmode Margarita.

Rob Ben’s is named after Marshawn Lynch’s childhood friend Robert Benjamin who was gunned down in Oakland in 2007. The bar is the former home of Scend’s, a soul food restaurant that has been a staple for decades.

Authentic soul food in Jack London Square

The popular soul food restaurant’s interior is tricked out with sparkly blue upholstery and shiny starburst lights. The menu lists every possible combination of chicken (fried or fried and smothered), waffles, greens, yams, cornbread, and black-eyed peas you can think of, each named after a family member (highlights: all the sides and the mile-high coconut cake).

Unique cuisine with extensive vegan dishes and succulent meat dishes too. Each dish is served with bread (injera) baked with Teff, the gluten free wonder grain indigenous to Ethiopia. Our ‘catering adventure’ series featuring “Flavors of Ethiopia” has delighted event attendees throughout Northern California.

This Uptown seafood spot isn’t an Asian-Cajun joint, even though the restaurant’s specialty — the seafood boil — tends to be the domain of Vietnamese-American restaurateurs. But chef Nelson German thought he could improve upon the genre. Instead of using traditional Cajun seasoning, he uses compound butters made with spices like saffron and smoked paprika. Instead of boiling the shellfish, in many cases German chars them on the grill before tossing them with sauce in a sauté pan. In dishes such as AlaMar’s take on peel ’n’ eat shrimp, the combination of ingredients — of well-spiced Romesco butter, garlic, and the umami-laden funk of the juices you can suck out of the shrimp heads — is irresistible. Other highlights: raw oysters topped with cilantro-ginger “caviar” and a recipe for braised oxtails the chef learned from his Dominican mother. The plastic bib is strictly optional.

Est. in 1996, former Black Panther Hqts now It’s All Good Bakery, Inc. specializes in an array of delicious desserts…from our 4 layer German Choc Cake to our good Ole Fashion Peach Cobbler. Come on in and see us!!!

Look at the beautiful cake designs, read the latest up to the minute pastry-related news, have a laugh and order a cake or two!

Owner Pastry Chef David Benton started Sugarsweet Cookie + Cake Studio in 2009 baking in his duplex kitchen in East Oakland. Self-taught with only youtube tutorials and baking books to guide him, David spent the next few years perfecting recipes and selling his scrumptiously beautiful pastries online from his duplex.

Balance Point Family Chiropractic are dedicated to helping you achieve your wellness objectives by combining skill and expertise that spans the entire chiropractic wellness spectrum. Chiropractor Dr. Jaimila Neyon, DC is committed to bringing you and your family better health and a better way of life by teaching and practicing the true principles of health through chiropractic wellness care.

Balance Point treats a wide variety of conditions: Neck pain, low back pain, shoulder pain, upper back pain, headaches, disc problems, jaw pain, ear and sinus congestion, knee pain, foot pain, carpal tunnel, tail bone pain, pain, exhaustion, weak immune system, nerve pain and sciatica.

The oldest independent Black bookstore in the country. Books by and about Black people everywhere.

rasa / ra·sa / noun / origin Sanskrit: रस·essence, flavor

Rasa Caffe offers California’s first unique “East meets West” (coffee & tea) menu. We prepare our drinks blending elegant organic spices of India & the Asian diaspora together with classic Western standards.

Our caffe’s exclusive recipes include the award winning Rose Latte and Rasa Chai Blend. We small batch roast our coffee and pair it with high quality baked goods. The caffe is staple destination sharing crowd pleasing specialty drinks with the SF Bay Area and beyond since 2013.

Authentic Louisiana Creole Flavor. 100% Plant

At this oasis in the Jack London district, Tamearra Dyson’s barbecued tofu, garlic-and-pickle-spiked potato salad, cheeseless cheesecake, cheeseless macaroni and cheese, tender corn on the cob, and fresh fruit blends exude a sophisticated richness that flesh-eaters and even old-school vegetarians would say have no business being this far from bacon and Crisco. A lifelong vegetarian and a vegan since age sixteen, Oakland native Dyson started with a catering company and a booth in local farmers’ markets before opening this small storefront restaurant in June 2008. Inside a wrinkly, peppery cornmeal-batter blanket half an inch thick and fried in olive oil — the only type Dyson uses — the crispy tofu served here as a side dish or in a burger brings back fond memories of fried fish. Without the fish. Remember those funky oh-so-local holes-in-the-wall where, when you were a carnivore, you walked right in (no scouring the menu for the single dish your diet might allow) and just chowed down? Well, this is one of those.

Super Juiced is a WOC owned organic juice and superfood smoothie bar proudly located in the heart of Old Oakland, CA in historic Swan’s Market.

Love your bike and it will love you back.

The Towne Cycles is focused on helping people that rely on their bikes to make their lives work. We understand how bad your day, week, or even your year can be when your bike can’t be relied on to get you from A to B. Whether you need a tune up for your daily commuter, you are riding down the coast of California, or you’ve got a race coming up and your beautiful machine is just not dialed in the way you want; The Towne Cycles is here to help you have the safest, sexiest, most fun ride possible, all while bringing friends, neighbors, and strangers together through biking.

Oakland based “food/social” start-up. Look forward to our home- delivered meals, brick and mortar restaurant, and after-school program for Oakland Youth!

THE CONCEPT
We are a bona-fide, Oakland-based food/social start-up company. Our food is 100% vegan and 100% gourmet. We handcraft and micro-batch all of our products with organic, local, and natural food ingredients. Our food is 100% radical and absolutely crushes the belief that vegan food doesn’t taste good. We package creativity, home-style goodness, and authentic ethnic cuisine into a solution of deliciousness designed to meet the needs of the urban professional. Simultaneously, we are relentless in educating the less informed and providing them with vegan foods that are accessible and affordable.

THE MISSION
What’s at the Center of the theveghub? You!
We purposefully articulated our mission as a question rather than a statement to communicate to Oakland: “This is what we’re striving for—we know we’re not there yet, but we’re on the journey.” It acknowledges room for possibility, change, and adaptability. And most importantly, it invites collaboration.

7800 Square Feet of Beautiful Coffee to The People. Experience the roasting process in person, get answers to all your brewing and cupping questions, and pick up a fresh bag for your home or office. Also, enjoy the garden and say hello to Red Bay’s own Instagram famous Greyson.

Made locally in Oakland, CA.

Queen Hippie Gypsy is Oakland’s First Black-owned Crystal Botanica.

They provide Prayer Candles, Bath Salts, Herbs, Jewelry plus event space where workshops and classes take place. Oracle Readings and online ordering now available!

Queen Hippie Gypsy is a Sanctuary for Crystals, Spiritual Tools, Artisan Good’s and a “Hub for Black Girl Magic”!

Bikes 4 Life is a community (non-profit) bicycle shop

Located on 7th St. in the heart of historic West Oakland, Bikes 4 Life is a grassroots neighborhood bike shop and social justice enterprise of OneFam with a mission to support the surrounding community and offer healthy, sustainable life opportunities to young people.

We sell the BEST bikes at the BEST prices and organize some of the nicest group rides in Oakland. The rides have become very popular. We’re building up a strong bike community bike by bike.

Not only do we sell and repair, but we also help to build future leaders through our internships and programs.

Sami African Imports provides body oils. Incense. Shea butter. Black Seed Oil. African black Soap. Jewelry. African Art. Drums. Bath Crystals. Burning Oil