The Funnel Bar – Houston, TX

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Funnel Bar is a Houston-based pop up restaurant serving classic and creative twists on funnel cakes.

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Experience: Wine Tasting at ErmaRose Winery – Houston, TX

Reading Time: 3 minutes Thanks to Instagram I found out there’s a Black-women owned winery in my backyard! Well, close to my backyard. Located in the Katy suburbs, just west of Houston, ErmaRose Winery specializes in a variety of fruit wines like mango, peach, blueberry, and banana! Yes, banana wine is a thing (and it’s good.)

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Good Eats: LIT Chicken – Houston, TX

Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s a fried chicken joint in downtown Houston and it serves some of the best fried chicken in the city. There, I said it!

LIT Chicken’s menu highlights West African culinary influence with items like loaded jollof rice and pounded yam dumpling. I heard ravings reviews about the fried chicken so I had to check it out for myself.

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Diary: Hiking Helped Me Love My Body More.

Reading Time: 4 minutes I am not outdoorsy, but I love hiking!
Looking back on my Black Girl Meets World adventures, I realized falling in love with hiking challenged me to unpack negative internalized thoughts about about what my body could do.

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BGMWList: Black-Owned Restaurants – Houston, TX

Reading Time: 7 minutes I figured if Beyoncé had a list of Black-owned businesses, then surely Black Girl Meets World needed a list of Black-owned restaurants. For good measure, I’m starting with Beyoncé’s hometown – Houston, Texas – which also happens to be my hometown.

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