At night after a game, when the black-owned restaurant in Mississippi or Georgia or Alabama had already closed, the team had no choice but to seek food from a white establishment.

And the last black-owned restaurant in town, Lobster in the Bluffs, closed in the mid-1990's.

"I don't think a black-owned restaurant has to be inexpensive."

Home was often a black rooming house and the kitchen a black-owned restaurant.

Michael Weinstein, the president of Ark, says he believes that B. Smith's will be the first black-owned restaurant of this caliber in Washington.

For whites, to dine at a black-owned restaurant was one thing.

At the Texas Bar-B-Q in downtown Dallas, a black-owned restaurant, a couple of black men greeted the verdict with eruptions of elation.

As fires burned other buildings in the recent violence, a black-owned restaurant, Chez's, went untouched.

Jezebel, a black-owned soul-food restaurant, is noteworthy not only for its authentic food but also for its ultra-stylish mixed crowd.

But eight people soon mushroomed into 60, and the salon moved from informal potlucks in individual homes to large brunches in local black-owned restaurants.