Diverse-Owned Businesses in Winston-Salem to Support in 2026

A seafood market and cafe that has fed the city since 1984, a Jamaican kitchen, two salons, a dentist in Clemmons, a full-service auto shop, a commercial and residential contractor, and a hauling subcontractor in Walkertown. Winston-Salem's record here is 15 listings, which is small, and every one of them is something you would actually call.

Every business named here links to its profile, where each ownership tag shows the source it came from. For the whole set, filter the Winston-Salem hub.

Quick answer

1. Eat at Forsyth Seafood Market & Café, in business since 1984.
2. Get Jamaican food at Yeh Mon Caribbean Restaurant.
3. Book a chair at Nu Dimensions Hair Studio or The Kove Salon & Spa.
4. See the dentist at Blue Wolf Dental in Clemmons.
5. Take the car to Jenkins Auto Service.
6. Build with Karma Contracting, and clear the site with 1011 Hauling.
7. File with AC Tax Solutions.
8. The Winston-Salem hub carries all 15 listings across nine categories.

Where should I eat?

Forsyth Seafood Market & Café has been a community fixture since 1984 and works as both a market and a restaurant, which is the useful combination. Yeh Mon Caribbean Restaurant cooks Jamaican.

Hair, teeth and the car

Nu Dimensions Hair Studio does cuts, color and straightening, and The Kove Salon & Spa works off Cloverdale Avenue. Blue Wolf Dental practices in Clemmons. Jenkins Auto Service is a full-service center working on all makes and models of passenger vehicles and light trucks, foreign and domestic, which is the kind of listing this directory rarely gets and readers ask for most.

Building, hauling and moving freight

Karma Contracting takes commercial and residential projects. Gilgeours Construction Corporation in Kernersville builds and puts OSHA 10 certification and safety orientation at the front of how it works. 1011 Hauling in Walkertown is a hauling subcontractor serving both residential customers and job sites. The World Delivered in Kernersville arranges freight logistics with real-time tracking and carrier partnerships.

Money, counsel and the record

AC Tax Solutions prepares business taxes. Stroud & Panetti, P.C. is a family law firm with an LGBTQ family matters practice covering divorce, custody and support, tagged here as a welcoming business rather than by ownership. Business & Client Services works with organizations that are moving fast enough to need someone to make them stop and think, and Community Expert Solutions develops revenue-generating projects that address health problems. Black Business Media publishes the stories of Black entrepreneurs and business leaders.

What the record does not cover yet

There are 15 published listings: 11 in Winston-Salem, two in Kernersville and one each in Clemmons and Walkertown. Lewisville, Pfafftown, Rural Hall, King, Lexington, Thomasville, Mocksville, Advance, Yadkinville and the rest of the hub's towns have none yet.

This is one of the smallest records in the directory and the reason is worth stating plainly. Forsyth County's obvious sources did not open: the Black chamber's directory sits behind a third-party app, and one regional directory holds dozens of local businesses behind pages that carry no website to link to. What is here came from the state's certified firm directory and local guides. So there is one restaurant category with two entries, no barbershop, no bakery, no coffee shop and no real estate agent, which is a gap in the record rather than a description of Winston-Salem. A free listing is the fastest way onto the page, and in most of these towns you would be the first.

Common mistakes

• Reading the size as the whole city. This is a young record built from two sources. Plenty of businesses here are simply not listed yet.
• Reading every tag as ownership. One listing carries a welcoming business tag, which is a claim about how clients are served, not about who owns the firm.
• Skipping the county towns. Kernersville, Clemmons and Walkertown all have listings, and they are on the hub too.
• Assuming the trades are missing. Contracting, hauling and freight are the deepest part of this record.

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