After two years of preparations and anticipation, Omar Tate and Cybille St.Aude-Tate’s grocery store and community center is getting ready to open in West Philly this September (via EaterPhilly)
in early 2021. All the while, he continued doing Honeysuckle dinners through a takeout operation at South Philly Barbacoa, while St.Aude-Tate came down to visit him from New York.The famed black-eyed peaso, that becomes foundation for Honeysuckle’s vegan scrapple.
St.Aude-Tate and Tate have almost two decades of cooking experience between them, so it would not have been surprising if — even in summer 2020 — they began hatching a plan to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Philly. The GoFundMe quickly raised $50,000 — a fifth of its goal — in under a month. Anyone who donated over $100 was sent a bean pie: Tate was raised Muslim and the bean pie was a reference toTate and St.Aude-Tate got married in August and began looking for a space.
Back at the Provisions kitchen, the group devolves into laughter when a debate over Drake begins. Tate joke-flexes his muscles. Honeysuckle’s house-made ingredients, like Creole mustard, honeysuckle vinegar, einkorn biscuits, and black-eyed peaso, are scattered around the table. The banter between the six chefs, both the seasoned ones and their younger counterparts, is lively and familial.
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