When Theresa Manning was a child, her mother would always have a warm meal waiting for her. Now her new restaurant is doing much the same for the community.
Chef Ting, a prominent Island chef, plans to open the year-round Black Joy Kitchen this spring in the former Bombay Indian Cuisine building on Oakland avenue.
The meal tax would charge an excise of .75 per cent on the sale of meals at restaurants in town, adding onto the existing 6.25 per cent state sales tax.
With summer in high gear, residents and tourists alike have a host of new places on the Island to eat this season. Six new restaurants have opened in the down-Island towns, all of them from familiar faces on the Vineyard cooking scene.
Chef Ting is moving into the former Bombay Indian Cuisine in Oak Bluffs with plans to expand her catering business and help strengthen the Black cooking community on Martha's Vineyard.
Theresa Manning, the co-owner of Cliffhangers Aquinnah, said she is renovating the Vineyard Haven restaurant as her team prepares to open a year-round eatery called Quitsa Kitchen.
