Black Owned Businesses on Baltimore’s Waterfront
Are you looking for your new favorite restaurant, clothing store, or coffee shop? Explore Baltimore’s Black-Owned businesses on the waterfront! This blog features some of the incredible creatives and entrepreneurs whose brick and mortar stores are in the Harbor East, Inner Harbor, Fells Point, and Harbor Point neighborhoods. If you love shopping local and want to check out some of the city’s best small businesses, both new and old, this list of Black Owned restaurants, cafes, shops, and attractions is a great place to start.
Pictured: Cuples Tea House in Harborplace
Blk Swan
This Harbor East restaurant offers a New American menu, as well as signature cocktails and bottle service. Join them for a DJ night or a late morning brunch.
Connie’s Chicken and Waffles
You can find Connie’s at Broadway Market in Fells Point! In addition to their mouth-watering chicken, they also have shrimp and waffles available.
Get It Inn Island Cuisine 2
If you’re looking for Jamaican food in Fells Point, look no further. Get Inn offers a wide menu, with Happy Hours and late night options available.
RYMKS Bar & Grill
This soul food restaurant and sports bar offers an extensive food menu, fun drinks, and weekly events.
Ekiben
This locally beloved Asian-fusion restaurant offers bowls, buns, noodles, and more. Visit their Fells Point location for a signature bao bun sandwich!
Last Slyce
Located in Fells Point’s Broadway Market, Last Slyce offers pizza and snowballs.
Taharka Brothers
This popular ice cream company offers fun, unique flavors in addition to the core standbys. You can find them locally at Broadway Market in Fells Point.
Crust by Mack
Run by a husband and wife team, this beloved bakery sells sweet and savory pies alongside other desserts. Their new waterfront location in Harborplace is open Sat-Sun, plus other special pick up days.
Good Food
If you get hungry walking on the promenade, stop by for delicious dishes like crab cake, surf & turf, and chicken sandwiches.
Saturday Morning Cafe
Take it easy at this Southern-style breakfast and brunch spot, located on the waterfront in Harborplace. The menu features classic and unique dishes with lots of seafood options.
Teavolve
In addition to their wide selection of loose-leaf teas, this cafe in Harbor east also offers a full breakfast and lunch menu, coffee and lattes, and cocktails.
Matriarch Coffee
Visit Matriarch’s waterfront location at the Inner Harbor for delicious, locally-roasted coffee and speciality lattes alongside breakfast and lunch offerings.
SHOPS AND ATTRACTIONS
Drama MaMa Bookshop
For lovers of reading and writing alike, this shop offers beautifully crafted journals and notebooks as well as book boxes and custom pieces.
ILoveBaltimore Personal Tours
If you’re looking to explore and learn more about the city from a local’s perspective, book a personal tour with ILoveBaltimore! ILoveBaltimore offers tours with different themes so you can pick whatever you’re interested in.
A Day in June Vintage
A Day In June is a thoughtfully curated concept shop specializing in sustainable goods and captivating objects. Located in Fells Point, this shop always has something new to discover.
A Koi Story
This clothing store in Harborplace is run by local artist Koi, selling clothing, accessories, and more, featuring the I’M GOOD brand.
Hopscotch Zero-Proof Bottle Shop
Come visit Fells Point for the biggest selection of non-alcoholic beer, wine, and spirits in the DMV area.
Milton’s Daughter
Located in Harborplace’s BOOST Boutique, this spiritually-oriented store is a place to find candles, quartz, incense, alongside waist beads, jewelry, and more.
Pandora’s Box
Find trendy women’s gifts and accessories at this store featured in Harborplace’s BOOST Boutique.
Storybook Maze
A radical street librarian hosting book pop-ups and book vending machines as a way to promote reading in book deserts.
K. Stewart Beauty and Wellness Spa
This laser clinic and lifestyle medical spa located in Harbor East offers a wide variety of treatments, from facials to weight loss management and more.
Yele Stitches
This fashion brand specializes in Afrofuturistic styles, offering both contemporary and traditional prints and custom pieces.
Vinyl and Pages + Cuples Tea House
The second location of this Baltimore-based company is now open in Harborplace and offers a relaxing spot to enjoy art, music, literature, and of course, tea.
Venturing outside of the waterfront neighborhoods? Check out Visit Baltimore’s Black-owned business directory that includes businesses all across the city. Also be sure to check out the Black-Owned Restaurant Tour happening during CIAA 2025 to dine out at some of the city’s finest Black-owned restaurants.
Did we miss your favorite restaurant? If you have a business that should be included in this list, email us at outreach@waterfrontpartnership.org
