Every entry in the guide
Black-owned, diaspora-rooted, and Black-historic Philadelphia. Filter by category, or browse by neighborhood.
Please Touch Museum
The nation's first museum designed entirely for children under seven. In the extraordinary Beaux-Arts Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park.
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3rd Element Spa & Salon
Germantown/Ogontz corridor anchor. Facials, manicures, massages, full salon services. If you need to press reset mid-visit, this is where you go.
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Duafe Holistic Hair Care
Named for the Adinkra symbol of beauty and love of one's nature. Locs, twists, braids, natural styling. North Philly's destination for natural hair.
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Faheem’s Hands of Precision
South Philly's standard-bearer. Men, women, and children. Beard grooming, fades, designs. The kind of cut that makes you look like you were born ready.
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Freedom Apothecary
Clean beauty and wellness sanctuary in Northern Liberties. Black and Brown women-led, carrying only women-owned wellness products.
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Cultured Couture Vintage
Designer vintage for men and women. Discerning curation. This is not a thrift store. This is an archive with a price tag.
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The Sable Collective
Body care, books, Ankara socks, jewelry, clothing. A gift shop, a cultural anchor, and a retail education all at once.
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Damari Savile
Custom suiting, made-to-measure tailoring, bowties, ties, pocket squares. Custom suiting done right.
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Common Ground
Philip Moore's Black-owned consignment in the heart of Center City, collectible sneakers, streetwear gems, vintage apparel.
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DeVillage
Natural stone and wood jewelry, shea butter, soaps sourced directly from West Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria. The real thing, not a replica.
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Style by Blain
Men's and women's shoes. The owner knows shoes the way a sommelier knows wine. Make the trip.
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Perfectly Flawless Boutique
Walk in needing an outfit and a touch-up. Walk out ready. Jumpsuits, rompers, on-site manicures and makeup.
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Dolly’s Boutique & Consignment
Plus-size inclusive women's fashion in a city that too often isn't, clothing in all sizes as the default, the way it should be.
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Babe
Tedd Hall opened this women's boutique on 52nd Street in 1972. He was 33. He's 87 now and still shows up. Deconstructed Croatian pieces, handmade leather trenches from Hungary.
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The Movement Philly
Eight years strong. 100% Black-made products, handcrafted fashion, soaps, hair and skin care, jewelry. Owner-operated, community-rooted, unapologetically Black.
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Yowie Hotel and Boutique
Travel + Leisure 100 Best New Hotels (2024). The rare boutique hotel that is also a café, a retail shop, and a design statement, all on legendary South Street.
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Akwaaba Philadelphia
Six-suite B&B in an 1880s Victorian manor in University City. Travel + Leisure '100 Best New Hotels in the World' (2024). 'Akwaaba' means 'welcome' in Twi.
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Prime Fusion Lounge
West African flavors in a modern lounge format. 24K Gold Wings, Rasta Pasta. Where Philly's Black professional class gathers on a weekend.
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Booker’s Restaurant & Bar
Family-owned, 30+ years, live music venue. Where vegan options are as good as the steak and the kitchen knowledge goes back further than any Michelin guide. Philadelphia muscle memory.
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Amina
Three years in Old City, recently relocated to a Northern Liberties space three times larger. Elevated Southern and West African–inspired cuisine.
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SOUTH Jazz Kitchen
Avenue of the Arts. Live jazz, full dining room, Mediterranean sea bass and elevated soul food. Real dress code. The declaration that Black Philadelphia dresses up.
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Down North Pizza
Detroit-style pizza in North Philly. Owner Muhammad Abdul-Hadi built it as a reentry business, hires people coming home from incarceration. The pizza is exceptional. The model is exceptional.
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Reef Restaurant and Lounge
Caribbean dining with bars, live music, and hookah in Old City. Live DJ Fri & Sat. Dress to match the energy.
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Africatown Food Tour
Guided culinary experience through the Woodland Avenue corridor, the most concentrated West African dining district on the East Coast.
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Honeysuckle Provisions
Afrocentric café and grocery in North Philadelphia. Locally sourced, seasonally cooked, community-rooted.
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Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books
Marc Lamont Hill's coffee shop, bookstore, and cultural anchor of the Germantown corridor.
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Nourish
Black-owned vegan soul food in Northern Liberties. Plant-based versions of soul food classics that convert skeptics.
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Sekela Kitchen
Ethiopian injera bowls, 2026 debut at Reading Terminal Market.
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Amsale Café
Philadelphia's finest Ethiopian restaurant. 28 seats, BYOB, deeply serious. Signature: Kitfo.
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Shana’s Caribbean Café
Jamaican in Northeast Philly, Oxtail, Rasta Pasta. The Northeast Caribbean anchor.
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