roxbury restaurant week 2021, june 13 to 19

Press Release Statement for Roxbury Restaurant Week 2021: “Ujima’s generosity helped give our staff a leg to stand on during the pandemic, they are crucial to the health of Nubian Square and an organization dear to our hearts”- Misha Thomas, General Manager of the Haley House restaurant in Roxbury. In the economic shock brought on by COVID19, over 110,000 restaurants permanently closed their doors.1 While businesses over all reported steep losses in activity, black enterprises experienced a 41% drop nationwide2. As efforts by state & city officials to keep Boston’s food industry afloat mobilized, Roxbury’s restaurants were still missing from Boston Restaurant Week in 2020. In response to this crisis, Misha Thomas, General Manager of Haley House Bakery Café, in partnership with Roxbury Main Streets, is organizing “Roxbury Restaurant Week”.