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Five Black-owned food businesses to check out in Toronto this fall

Support now and always

Deepi Harish
4 min readSep 24, 2020
Custom Cupcakes from Butter and Spice

Now is the time to support your neighbourhood restaurants, cafes, pop-ups and local markets. Small businesses are hurting, Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs are hurting even more. Supporting these businesses is one actionable way to show we stand together as a community against systematic racism. Here are the five local Black-owned food businesses that are putting out some delicious and exciting new food experiences.

Neale’s Sweet N Nice

Rum Raisin Ice Cream

Charles Neale developed Sweet N Nice ice cream recipes in the 1940s, where he would bicycle across Southern Trinidad selling his product. Today, Sweet N Nice is a Canadian company operated by Neale’s grandkids. This family-owned brand lines up a collection of Caribbean-inspired ice cream flavours including Coconut, Rum and Raisin, Pineapple Coconut, Guava Passionfruit and Mango, sold in major grocery stores across the country. Currently, you can also find their pop-up store at Stackt Market. Look forward to tasting real fruit, 100% Canadian dairy, all-natural tropical flavours that linger in mouth 10–15 seconds after it’s…

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Deepi Harish
Deepi Harish

Written by Deepi Harish

Published Storyteller on Bon Appétit, The Food Network Canada, The Huffington Post, China Daily, Post City Magazines and more. Follow me at instagram.com/d33pi/

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