Toronto Black-owned businesses we love
This Black History Month, we’re highlighting writers, content creators, and business owners who inspire us. If you’re looking to support a Black-owned business in Toronto, we’ve put together a (by no means exhaustive) list of Black-owned businesses that we love.
Old’s Cool General Store
A corner front building that has a 100-year history of commerce, Old’s Cool General Store is the first “Boutique” Community Centre, providing the space and resources for people to congregate in the community. Funding their community-building goals primarily through social enterprise, they provide customers with an incredible array of goods, from coffee and tea to edcuational books.
Rasta Pasta
Rasta Pasta is an innovative fusion restaurant that combines the essence of Jamaican and Italian culture to give you a unique experience. Everything served at Rasta Pasta is made from scratch and explores new territory giving customers a savory experience.
Mary's Brigadeiro Chocolate
Mary's Brigadeiro is a Black woman-led business with the mission of sharing moments of happiness, joy and fun through her chocolate creations with the rest of the world - through Canada's vast multicultural influence.
Sweet N’ Nice Ice Cream
Sweet N’ Nice blends tropical flavours and classic frozen desserts creating unique flavours that bring you to your own Caribbean paradise (especially as we sit at home). These recipes are made with 100% real fruit and 100% Canadian dairy.
ChArAnkh BeAuty
As an esthetician with decades of skincare experience, Charankh Beauty’s plant-based beauty oils are handcrafted with care. Her OYA serum is an anti-aging oil serum that will improve hyperpigmentation, soften texture, fine lines, and overall appearance of your skin, and is named after a powerful African Goddess whose power is rooted in the natural world.
Scrub and Butter
Scrub and Butter creates handmade, small-batch products that are designed with moisture in mind. Owned and operated by a Black, daughter-mother duo who care deeply about the brand they've built and the customers they serve, they believe in building and maintaining meaningful relationships with their local suppliers, and with the communities they serve.
Uplift Kitchen
Uplift Kitchen is a food security initiative created to serve Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities in Toronto and surrounding areas. During this time of global unrest, their goal is to serve these communities who have been affected by the pandemic and that are also suffering at the hands of systemic and overt racism.
Lisnen
Lisnen is a situational awareness application designed to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss be aware of sounds in the nearby environment.
Adrift shop
Adrift is a skate/lifestyle boutique located in Downtown Toronto, catering to Toronto's skate/lifestyle enthusiasts for over 10 years. They carry a diverse selection of urban lifestyle brands from all over the world and are constantly updating their retail space with new products from each season including special quickstrike releases from their family of brands.
Cherry Gardens
Cherry Gardens is a loungewear brand inspired by the people and places of Cherry Gardens, a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. The brand prioritizes comfort and more importantly, supporting local by working with local vendors in Toronto and across the country.
Blooming Flower Bar
Blooming Flower Bar is the destination for all things fresh and green. As Cabbagetown's neighbourhood flower shop, neighbours have dubbed Blooming Flower Bar as 'the happy place'. Either pick flowers from our DIY flower bar or allow Blooming's friendly staff to put together a gorgeous custom bouquet.
