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In the meantime, check out the soul-food cafe Comfort Zone in Mount Baker, at the apartment complex Dakota in Rainier Court.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

A soundtrack of beloved R&B classics played at a volume just above background-level but agreeably so for a soul-food spot.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

At Soul Slice, his soul-food pizza restaurant in Oakland, Calif., everyone works full time, earns a salary rather than an hourly wage, and receives health insurance, retirement benefits and paid vacation.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

It suggests a shared history, or at least a loosely improvised connection, like Thelonious Monk riffing on a theme, to after-hour jazz clubs in Harlem and soul-food shops in Los Angeles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2021

She actually preferred to be among the poor, the working-class poor of the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn, the cement mixers, bakers, doughnut makers, grandmothers, and soul-food church partisans who were her lifelong friends.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride