Black Restaurant Week comes to the Carolinas soon — here’s what you should know.

Black Restaurant Week — Carolinas will be held from Friday, April 28 - Sunday, May 7, and it will feature more than 20 Charlotte-area restaurants.

The nationwide tour will feature local and regional favorites including:

Charlotte area:

• BCooks! Food Truck

• Coordinates Coffee

• Cru Charlotte
  
  

• Cuzzo’s Cuisine

• Derita Dairy Bar & Grill

• Exposed Vegan

• Grandeur Cuisine

• Graze-Full Eats

• Hip Hop Smoothie

• Juicin’ Juice Bar

• Krustaceans Seafood

• Island Cuisine Charlotte

• It’s Poppin! Gourmet Kettle Korn

• LuLu’s Maryland-Style Chicken and Seafood

• Nana Morrison’s Soul Food

• The Nappy Chef

• Rio Ultra Lounge (formerly 360 Lounge Reloaded)

• Romeo’s Vegan Burgers

• Roy’s Kitchen and Patio

• Stats Restaurant & Bar

• Two Scoops Creamery

[READ NEXT: Where to find a meal at a Black-owned restaurant in Charlotte.]

Road trip time: Elsewhere in the Carolinas

• Big Pat’s Soul Food in Burlington

• Gate City Tavern in Greensboro

• A Peace of Soul Vegan Kitchen in Columbia

• Pure Soul in Durham

• Shyah’s Vegan Bakery in Rocky Mount

Black Restaurant Week is a nationwide campaign that was founded in 2016 by by Warren Luckett, Falayn Ferrell and Derek Robinson. It is designed to help support Black-owned culinary businesses, featuring African-American, African and Caribbean cuisine nationwide. Local restaurants join at no cost.

Other ways to support Charlotte’s Black-owned restaurants

• Of note: Black Restaurant Week - Carolinas is different from the locally owned Charlotte Black Restaurant Week event.

• Another way to show up: Black Food Truck Fridays is back for the season.

• Also, mark your calendar for this year’s Eat Black Charlotte, which will be Friday, June 2-Sunday, June 11. More details to come!