Remembering Leroy Haynes and Chez Haynes, the Toast of Paris
This past April marked eleven years since the closing of the first African American restaurant in Europe, Chez Haynes. Decades before Sylvia Woods (1926 – 2012) opened her renowned restaurant in Harlem, an American named Leroy Howard Milton Haynes (1914 – 1986) opened Europe’s first soul food restaurant in Paris, France, 71 years ago. It […]
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