Meeka Johnson & Rene Melendez

Love + Grit

Philly loves options and that’s what Meeka Johnson and Rene Melendez are serving. Johnson has done it all. She's known in Philly for her sense of fashion innovation. She's put in decades of work as a fashion stylist and consultant. And she's even created her own fashion-forward clothing line. But now we are obsessed with her All Black Everything Pop-Up, which is essentially the Black version of QVC on Instagram that exclusively highlights dope Black-owned brands. Next up, Melendez is the owner of Izlas Latin Cuisine. He dishes on what all of our palates have been waiting for: a Latino restaurant that presents food from several Latin-American countries. And it just so happens Izlas is a part of Dine Latino Restaurant Week which includes deals from some of the city’s best Latino-owned restaurants.