{"id":289564,"date":"2026-07-07T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:33:47","slug":"new-liberian-restaurant-offers-west-african-flavors-in-brooklyn-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289564\/","title":{"rendered":"New Liberian Restaurant Offers West African Flavors in Brooklyn Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:11 PM | Tuesday, July 7, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A new family-owned restaurant is bringing a taste of Liberia and a place for people to connect in Brooklyn Center.<\/p>\n<p>Carol\u2019s African Restaurant opened its doors in May. Since then, co-owner Daniel Killen has seen an influx of traffic. He says it\u2019s become a community gathering spot where people meet up with friends, and even meet new friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a business, but we\u2019re in this to really reach out to the community so they can have a place to trust, and a place to come, and a place to have refuge when they want to have a good meal,\u201d Killen said.<\/p>\n<p>Carol\u2019s serves West African dishes, primarily Liberian cuisine, which includes dishes like dried rice or jollof rice with fish or chicken. Killen said a popular item is their ginger juice made in-house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/news\/new-liberian-restaurant-offers-west-african-flavors-in-brooklyn-center\/attachment\/carols-african-restaurantbroll-eh-20260702\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-204415 follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204415\" class=\"wp-image-204415 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/carols-african-restaurantbroll-eh-20260702-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A table of Liberian food options made at Carol's African Restaurant in Brooklyn Center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-204415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamecar Killen showcases a variety of dishes available at Carol\u2019s African Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is named after Caroline, Daniel Killen\u2019s mother-in-law. Caroline, along with her daughters Jane and Jamecar, started serving food through their catering business 19 years ago. They\u2019ve come a long way since then. Killen said the name reflects Carol\u2019s spirit and the restaurant\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSort of an embodiment of a mother who is getting her girls out the door, into the world. Teaching them everything she knows about culinary arts. How to be a good person, how to be an amazing resource to the community, and to pour yourself out with love,\u201d Killen said.<\/p>\n<p>All three of them work in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Carol\u2019s African Restaurant is located at 6940 Brooklyn Boulevard in Brooklyn Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-center\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/news_programs\/business-matters\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Business Matters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:11 PM | Tuesday, July 7, 2026 A new family-owned restaurant is bringing a taste of Liberia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-289564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}