After breaking records on Kickstarter, MOBO-winning British saxophonist YolanDa Brown is to open an Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Islington Square this autumn.
Within eight weeks, Brown manage to draw in £248,000 for her project — the highest amount ever received for a restaurant start-up on Kickstarter, anywhere in the world — which will be called Soul Mama. Brown is opening it in partnership with Adetokunbo ‘T’ Oyelola, the entrepreneur and promoter best known for founding management company Black Grape Global.
