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Only Nigerian Restaurant in San Francisco Burns Down
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Simileoluwa Adebajo, owner of San Francisco’s Eko Kitchen, speaks with hosts Soleil Ho and Justin Phillips just hours after her restaurant burned down in a major fire. She remains positive she can rebuild the city’s only Nigerian restaurant and has launched a GoFundMe in support of her business as well as several others that lost property in the fire. She also talks about performative support for Black-owned restaurants by white folks amid the surging Black Live Matters movement.
Read a transcript of our conversation with Simileoluwa Adebajo and send us your questions about food, life and everything you're obsessed with at sfchronicle.com/spicy.
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Read a transcript of our conversation with Simileoluwa Adebajo and send us your questions about food, life and everything you're obsessed with at sfchronicle.com/spicy.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Aug 3, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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