Health Freedom Walk: A Harlem Restaurant Crawl Honoring Dr. King

Join Plant Powered Metro New York for our 3rd annual Health Freedom Walk, a restaurant crawl hosted in multiple neighborhoods around the region, offering progressive plant-powered meals that pay tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s enduring legacy of justice. Come celebrate freedom, fun, and food as we take back our health and support local eateries.

We honor Rev. Dr. King’s legacy, recognizing that nutrition presents a transformative opportunity for health, healing, and hope in African American communities and for all of our marginalized neighbors. We are bringing back to the fore the foodways from indigenous cultures across the diaspora that have kept Black people strong for millennia, and turning away from the foods that have caused the rise of lifestyle conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and others — all of which are preventable and many even reversible through a plant-powered diet.

Each Health Freedom Walk will be unique to each neighborhood, which may include key landmarks recognizing Dr. King or the civil rights movement, eateries serving diverse cuisines, and walk marshals to provide inspiration and historical perspective. If you’re looking for a meaningful way to honor Dr. King’s birthday, look no further and get ready to eat well, move well, and raise your voice for health freedom!

"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Join our walk to these Harlem hotspots where Harlem Chefs have, in partnership with PPMNY, curated these delicious dishes just for King Day:

• Ourtbox Cafe: Avocado Toast

• Uptown Veg: Veggie Pattie

• Field Trip: Veggie Rice Bowl

• Ginjan Cafe: Hot Chocolate and Plantain Cookie

This walk will feature a talk by Theresa Parris of Parris on Purpose.

$5 donation to PPMNY is required to hold your spot. $7 - $10 per dish per restaurant paid individually. Each dish will build on one another to create a meal.