About the data
African grocery stores, markets and restaurants across Minnesota, from Cedar-Riverside and Lake Street in Minneapolis to Brooklyn Park, St. Cloud, Rochester and Worthington. Built from state and Minneapolis food licences, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, and a place is only listed as African when one of those records says so.
Sabi African Stores is built from public sources, gathered automatically and refreshed weekly. When a source changes a record, the change shows up here on the next refresh and is logged on the what changed page.
No business pays to be listed or to be ranked higher, and nothing is written in by hand. Where a source is a regulator, what it says is shown as it said it. Where the source is community data or the business's own website, the listing says so.
Hours, stock and ownership change. Call ahead before a long drive, and tell the store if something here is out of date so it can be fixed at the source.
Sources
| Source | What it gives us | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Department of Agriculture, retail food licences | Every unexpired state retail food licence: the holder, trading name, address, licence number and expiry date. | Official record |
| City of Minneapolis, Food Inspections | Every food business the city inspects: licence id, business name, facility type, address, map point and inspection dates since 2023. | Official record |
| OpenStreetMap | Map points, cuisine tags, addresses, phone numbers, websites and opening hours added by local mappers. | Community data |
| Overture Maps Places | Business points with categories such as ethiopian_restaurant and east_african_restaurant, plus phone numbers and websites. | Community data |
Last refreshed September 24, 2026. 158 places listed.