Name: Bronzeville Soul
Address: 4655 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL, 60653
Telephone: (872) 244-7127
Price range: $$

Bronzeville Soul

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📍 4655 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653

Bronzeville Soul opened on the corner of 47th and King Drive in August 2022, picking up the space and the mission left behind by the beloved Blu47 — real soul food and live music in the heart of Bronzeville, run by Mario Coleman and Angie Price on recipes passed down through generations rather than written out from a corporate test kitchen.

A live band on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month at a Black-owned, woman-owned soul food restaurant that's already drawn Jay-Z and Roland Martin.

It's certified Black-owned, woman-owned, and minority-owned, and it's already pulled in a notable guest list for a two-year-old restaurant — Jay-Z, Sounds of Blackness, Kindred the Family Soul, and Roland Martin have all come through. The food leans on seasoning and time rather than shortcuts, in the straightforward soul-food tradition the neighborhood itself helped define. The real recurring draw is a live band on the first and third Wednesday of every month, turning a soul-food dinner into the kind of evening Bronzeville was historically known for before most of its jazz and blues clubs closed decades ago.

Hours run limited — closed Monday through Wednesday, open Thursday through Saturday afternoon into evening, and Sunday for a shorter midday stretch — so this isn't a walk-in-any-night kind of place. No discount special tracked here, but a genuinely new, community-rooted soul food restaurant with a live-music night built into its regular calendar is reason enough to plan around those hours rather than around a coupon.

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Mon-Wedclosed; Thu-Sat 2:00 PM-9:00 PM; Sun 12:00 PM-7:00 PM

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