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The new directory has more details about how the list was assembled.
Pink are verified feminist, lesbian, and women’s restaurants,
coffeehouses, and cafes. Blue are women-friendly
establishments mentioned in the various women’s travel guides and feminist and
lesbian periodicals (these include some establishments targeted towards gay men
that also welcomed women). These spaces were women owned (but not identified as
feminist) or advertised as being spaces where women and lesbians were welcome
to eat alone or as a couple. The blue list is incomplete but provides a sample
of the kinds of spaces women would use for socializing and that were advertised
to women to socialize in that were not explicitly women’s spaces/ feminist
spaces/ lesbian spaces.
UNITED STATES
Alabama
Birmingham
Steak n Eggs
Alaska
Arizona
Phoenix
Ginzey’s Oasis
Free Spirit Coffeehouse (sometimes held in
individuals’ homes)
Tucson
Gay Women’s Liberation
and Lesbian Coffeehouse/ Desert Dykes Tucson (DDT)
The Sidewalk Cafe
Arkansas
California
Homemade Café
Albany
The
Baachanal
Auburn
E and G’s
Berkeley
The Brick Hut Café
Cheese and Coffee Center
Kafeneo
(restaurant)
Night Hut
The Old Mole
Vivoli's
Ice Cream Parlor
Berkeley Café Bazaar
Claremont
The Motley Coffeehouse
Chico
Labrys Books sold coffee
Gardenia
Pit Stop
Hayward
The Oracle Bookstore sold coffee
Hollywood
The Ultimate Feminist
Restaurant: The LA Women’s Saloon and Parlor
Little Frida's Lesbian Cafe (West Hollywood)
Little Frida's Lesbian Cafe (West Hollywood)
Carriage Trade
David’s
Eating High
French Market
Studio One ‘Backlot” – women only Wednesdays
Laguna Beach
Little Shrimp Restaurant
Andree’s
The
Cottage
Eric’s
LA
Dolly’s Dolphin Grill
Identified Woman Café
Jett’s Café and Art Haus Coffeehouse
Bread and Roses Feminist Bookstore sold coffee and snacks
The Mainsail, closely connected with Womon Space
Marty’s Restaurant
Vall’s Restaurant in the Women’s Building
Woman Space
On the Fringe Restaurant
Yukon
Mining Company
Frog
Pond
New
York Company Bar and Grill
Zoo
Bar and Restaurant
The
Go-Between Coffeehouse
The
Blue Mouse Coffeehouse
Fellini’s
Manhattan
The
Greenery Restaurant and Coffeeshop (24 hrs)
Rose
Tattoo
Wellington’s
Restaurant
Rosalind’s
(woman-owned)
Catch
One
Bla-
bla café
The
last drop coffeehouse
Long Beach
Tee Cee’s
Rusty’s
Monterey
Café Balthazar
Tillie
Gort’s
Nevada City
Friar Tuck’s Restaurant and Wine Bar
North Hollywood
Brian’s
Menlo Park
Everywoman's
Coffeehouse
Oakland
Bishop's Coffeehouse/ Womanspace
Grandma’s House
Mama Bear's
Ollie’s of Oakland Womyn’s Restaurant
A Woman’s Place (definitely a store but did
they have food?)
Pasadena
Daily Double
Redwood City
Cruiser Restaurant
Sacramento
Earhart's café gallery
Lesbian Complex Private Club
Whistle Stop Coffeehouse
Mini Mouse Gay Coffeehouse
Santa Cruz
Two Sisters
Café Domenica
San Diego
Amazon Sweet Shop
Boardwalk Cafe
Big Kitchen
Las Hermanas Coffeehouse
Rose Canyon Cafe
Wing Café
Feminist Coffeehouse and Gallery
Yogurt Express and Deli Ice Cream Shop (woman
owned)
Something Special Beach Fish and Salad Bar
(woman owened)
King Richard
Jamie’s
Restaurant
The
Rendezvous
San Fransisco
1001 Nights Lesbian Bar and Restaurant (Former location of the
Tortuga and Evonne's. Became the Royal Palace, Back Street, the Red Eye Saloon,
the Deja Vu, and the Black Rose. )
Artemis Society Women’s Cafe
The Baybrick Inn
Breaking Bread Restaurant (woman owned)
Café Commons
Canary Island Restaurant
Clarion Coffeehouse
Full Moon Inc, coffeehouse and bookstore
Klein’s Deli and Restaurant (lesbian owned)
Mary Midgett’s Coffeehouse
Maud’s Restaurant
Nosheria Restaurant (woman owned and operated)
The Neon Chicken
Old Wives' Tales, Bookstore with tea and
coffee
Tiffany’s Restaurant
Two Sisters Restaurant
Tuxedo Junction
Red Dora’s Bearded Lady Cafe
Valencia Rose
The P.S.
Fanny’s
Super Club
Casa
de Cristal
The
Fickle Fox
San Jose
Sisterspirit Café and Bookstore
Interlude
San Louis Obispo
Women’s Coffeehouse from the Dandelion Wine Book Company
Dandelion Wine Book Company (lesbian and feminist bookstore with
coffee and tea)
San Rafael
Rising Women Books Feminist Bookstore (sold coffee and tea)
Ethel’s
Santa Barbara
Choices Book, Music, and Coffeehouse Feminist Bookstore
Beaudelaire’s Coffeehouse
Santa Rosa
Moonrise Café
Gertie’s Cafe
Sausalito
Two Turtles
Sausalito
Inn
Zelda’s
Colorado
Boulder
Boulder Lesbian Network Coffeehouse
Carnival Café: Natural Foods
Denver
Anywoman’s
Coffeehouse
Women’s
Coffeehouse
Café du Monde
The
Den
Bway
Café
Denver
Waterworks
Alicia’s
Mexican Restaurant
Global
Village
Maxine’s
Place
The
Bellevue
BJ’s
Carousel
Garbo’s
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Black Rock Inn Restaurant
Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant
Danbury
The Answer Cafe
Greenwich
Homestead Inn
Hartford
Sonya Weston’s Books and Cheese
Reader's Feast Feminist Café and Bookstore
New Britain
Edible Art Vegetarian Restaurant
New Haven
La Machinetta Café/Coffeehouse
New Haven Women's Liberation Center with a
coffee house
The Pink Triangle Coffeehouse
Delaware
Dewey Beach
The Boat House
Wilmington
Renaissance Gay Bar and Restaurant (women only
room)
District of Columbia
Kalorama Café
Rising
Women's Coffeehouse
The Otherside- Restaurant and Showbar
Suzanne’s Wine Bar/Restaurant/Bakery/and
Charcuterie
Washington
Area Women’s Center’s Coffeehouse
Paramount Steak House
Town
House
Lucy’s
Bar and Restaurant
Two
Quail Restaurant
JR’s
Zeigfield’s
Phase
One
Lil
Sister
Hung
Jury (sponsored a softball team)
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Clever Bar/Women’s Restaurant
Shangri-La Disco Lounge and Restaurant
Hallandale
Lou's Back Room bar with sandwiches, snacks, and dancing
Sandy’s Kitchen
Key West
Claire, with women’s only tea dance
Miami
The Courtyard Inn
Pinellas Park
Beaux Arts Coffeehouse and Art Gallery
Tallahassee
Everywoman's Coffeehouse
Tampa
Feminist Connection bookstore with coffee and tea
Three Birds Feminist Bookstore and Coffeeshop
The Women's Center, Coffehouse
The Denny’s at 102 Parker Street (mostly gay
clientele at night)
Georgia
Atlanta
The Sportspage Restaurant and Bar
Gallus
Restaurant and Bar
Hawaii
Honolulu
The Breeze Inn
The Godmother
Hamburger Mary’s
The Tomato
Maui
Hamburger Mary’s
Illinois
Champaign
Lavender Prairie Collective
Chicago
Blue Gargoyle Coffeehouse
Jane Addams Bookstore and Coffeehouse
Karen’s Kitchen (It really was her own kitchen)
Mama Peach's
Mountain Moving Coffeehouse
Paris Dance Restaurant and Bar
Rsvp and Company Café, Bar, and Restaurant
Susan B's Feminist Restaurant
Somewhere Coffeehouse
Vittles
Grandma’s
Up
North
His
N Hers
Gentry
My
Brother’s Place
Evanston
Kinehart Women’s Center had food
Lesbian Coffeehouse at Women at Northwestern
University
Indiana
Bloomington
Mother Bear’s Place
Fort Wayne
Sisterspace Women’s Coffeehouse
Iowa
Iowa City
Grace and Rubie's Feminist Social Club and Restaurant
The Women’s Coffeehouse
Kansas
Topeka
Guys and Dolls (food and dancing)
Lawrence
Sister Kettle Cafe
Womanspace Coffeehouse as part of the women’s center
Kentucky
Lexington
The Bungalow Restaurant
Montparnass
Restuarant
Louisville
Mother's Brew: a coffeehouse for women
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
The Cock and Bull Restaurant and Bar with
separate women’s room
New Orleans
The Other Side Bar and Coffeehouse
Apple Barrel
Faubourg Marigny Gay Bookstore with coffee and
tea
Burgundy
House
Mas
Cuiller Gras
Tortilla
Flats
Maine
Ogunquit
Annabelle's (disco, brunch, dinner)
Edelweiss Downtown
The
Fan Club
The
Trolley Stop
Old Town
Fig O My Heart Vegetarian Restaurant (lesbian
owned and operated)
Maryland
Bethesda
Community Café and Women’s
Bookstore
Massachusetts
Allston
Beetle's Lunch
L'Odeon Macrobiotic Natural Foods
Boston
Crone’s Harvest Radical Lesbian Feminist Coffeehouse
Greystone's Restaurant
and Bar (women owned)
The Iron Hose Coffeehouse
The Ideal, Women’s Restaurant
for Gay Women, Men, and their Friends
Meetinghouse Coffeehouse
Modern Times Cafe
Oasis
Coffeehouse
The Alternative Theater Restaurant
Cambridge
Amaranth
Bread and Roses Feminist Restaurant
Indigo Women’s Food and Bar
The Marquee (sponsors women athletes)
Common Stock Restaurant
Greenfield
Green River Café
Northampton
The Common Wom0n Club Restaurant
Lesbian Gardens Coffeehouse and Bookstore
Northstar Seafood Restaurant
The Women's Restaurant
(probably referencing Common Woman Club before it had its name)
Provincetown
Lesbian Gardens Coffeehouse
The Moors
Pied Piper Restaurant (lesbian owned)
Alice’s
Hideaway
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Women’s Coffeehouse
Detroit
Poor Woman's Paradise Coffeehouse
The Underground Bar/Restaurant
Grand Rapids
Gaia
Restaurant
Kalamazoo
Pandora Womyn's Bookstore sold coffee
Saugatuck
Saugatuck Lodge
Minnesota
Duluth
North Country Women’s
Coffeehouse
Minneapolis
A Women’s Coffeehouse
Amazon Bookstore sold coffee
New French Cafe
New Riverside Café
Prashad Kitchen Feminist Restaurant- International Vegetarian Cuisine
Ruby’s Café (1 and 2)
Women's Coffeehouse
Park Rapids
Sister Wolf Bookstore and Cafe
St. Paul
Commonplace Restaurant and Vegetarian
Cooperative
Mississippi
Gulfport
Southern Wild Sisters Feminist Bookstore and Women's Resource
Center
Missouri
Kansas City
Kansas City Women’s Liberation Union (had coffee)
St. Louis
City
Cousin
The
Sunshine Inn (women owned and operated vegetarian restaurant)
Gay
Coffeehouse
Left
Bank Books sold coffee
Montana
Helena
Sweetgrass Bakery (woman owned)
Northern Lights Café, Women’s Collective
Nebraska
Lincoln
A Place of Our Own Wimmin’s Bookstore sold coffee and tea
Omaha
Common Woman Books sold food and coffee
Nevada
Las Vegas
Le Café Restaurant
New Hampshire
Portsmouth
King’s Wilde
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Lyle’s Place Coffeeshop (gay meeting place)
Mama Mott’s Restaurant (gay restaurant and gay
waitresses)
Collinswood
Chamomile's Woman Owned and Operated Restaurant
Gatsby's
Fort Lee
Tea and Symphony Coffeehouse
Jersey City
Pathway Lounge
Landing
Hideaway Pizzeria (woman owned)
Newton
Italian Kitchen
Princeton
A Woman’s Place
South River
A Place of One's Own Restaurant for Feminists and their Friends
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Double Rainbow Bakery and Café
Full Circle Books Feminist Bookstore sold
coffee
Santa Fe
Nifty Café Lesbian Coffeehouse
New York
Albany
Lilith Nonalcoholic Space
Buffalo
Emma Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
East Hampton
Terrace Cafe
Yoghurt Heaven (woman owned)
The Attic Tea Dance
Elmira
Mary's Grill
Ithaca
Women’s Coffeehouse at the Feminist Studio
Strange Paradise Cafe
Long Island
Women's Coffeehouse
Top of The Bay
New Paltz
Oh Susanah, Inc, Café
New York City
The Black Sheep (in former place as Mother Courage)
Bonnie’s Restaurant (women’s half of Bonnie and Clyde’s)?
Brooklyn Women’s Coffeehouse
Dapper Women’s Restaurant
The Duchess Café Women’s Restaurant
(women-only)
La Fronde
Mother Courage Feminist Restaurant (first in
North America)
Peachstreet Dining Club for Women and their
Friends
Peaches and Crème Bar-Restaurant
Shameira Huss Bookstore sold coffee
Shescape Bar-Restaurant
Vegetarian feminist Restaurant (64 charles street)
Vegetari
The Women's Coffee House with sandwiches
WOW
theatre had WOW cafe
La
Papaya Women’s Restaurant (gourmet vegetarian)
Reverse
Philippine Gardens Restaurant (women’s night)
Company
Les
Pits
One
if By Land, Two if By Sea
Reno
Sweekey’s
One
Potato
Cotton
Patch
The
Pelican
Applause
Blue
Skies
Pennyfeather
Bonnie’s
Restaurant
Uno’s
Cafe
Poughkeepsie
The Congress Restaurant
Rochester
Snake Sister Café Women’s Collective
Wild Seeds Feminist Bookstore and Café
Regular Restaurant
Staten Island
Mother Earth Bar and Restaurant
Beach
Haven Restaurant and Bar
Brazil
Bar and Restaurant
Woodstock
Sojourner's Women’s Coffeehouse
Maverick Inn and Hotel Gourmet Restaurant
North Carolina
Ashville
Malapron's Bookstore and Café
Charlotte
Josh’s Restaurant
Durham
Francesca's Gelato Café
Southern Sister's Feminist Bookstore sold tea
North Dakota
(in 1989 there is a bar in Fargo)
Ohio
Canton
Lesbian Activist Bureau has coffees
Cincinnati
Wild Iris
Café/ Crazy Ladies Bookstore
Flander’s
College
Hill Coffee Co. (lesbian-feminist owned)
Greenwich
Tavern
Cleveland
Genesis Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant and Bar
Peabody’s Café and Feminist Coffeehouse
Gypsy’s
The
Mad Greek
Columbus
Calico's Coffeehouse
Grapevine Café (women owned and operated)
Mel’s Place- created by and for gay women
Dayton
Iris Books Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Painesville
Rider’s Tavern
Springfield
Why Not Café
Toledo
Arlington
Nook
N’ Cranny
Yellow Springs
Winds Café feminist run restaurant
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Herland Sister Resources Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Oregon
Eugene
Gertrude’s Café run by a women’s collective
Keystone Café (lesbian and gay counter culture
café)
Wild Iris Restaurant
Zoo Zoo's Natural Foods Restaurant
Holding Together Coffeehouse
Book
and Tea Shop
Myrtle Creek
It's a Natural Foodstore (owned and operated by lesbians)
Daphne
and Judith’s Tea Shop at Heritage Food Company
Portland
Bijou Café
Cup and Saucer Café (now 3 outlets)
Hamburger Mary’s
Incredible Edibles
Metropolis (under 21 allowed- many lesbians bring their teenage
children here)
Mountain Moving Café
Old Wive's Tales Restaurant and Women’s Center
Primary Domain Women’s Restaurant
Wild Oscar's
Chez
What? Lesbian Café
Black Hawk Tavern (women’s entertainment
nights)
Hot
Potata Cafe (gay run)
Pennsylvania
Erie
Washington Grill
Marietta
The Railroad House (gay owned and operated)
New Hope
The Raven
The
Baron, formerly known as The Old Cartwheel
Philadelphia
Amazon’s Inc Coffeehouse
Astral Plane
Chamomile Women’s Restaurant
Dreamer’s Café Women’s Restaurant
Giovanni’s Room
Judy’s Café
Dee’s
Place
Mahogany Black Women’s Club
Philadelphia Lesbian Coffeehouse
Philadelphia Gay Coffeehouse
The
Midway
The
Westbury (oldest gay establishment in Philadelphia)
The Women’s Book
Connection Feminist Lesbian Bookstore had coffee
Women’s Space and Sisterhood
Judy’s Cafe
Pittsburgh
Gay Alternatives Coffeehouse at First Unitarian Church
Wildsister's Restaurant and Bookstore
Home Circle Club
Court
Street Luncheonette
Jackson’s
(gay restaurant)
Norreh
Social Club
State College
The Left Bank
Seasons
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
Woonsocket
High Street Café
Providence
Marantha
Coffeehouse
South Carolina
Aiken
The Café- Feminist Bookstore and Café
Columbia
MC B’s Saloon
South Dakota
Tennessee
Chatanooga
Alan Gold’s ( gay men and women basically
stick together as a group
here)
Memphis
Terri’s Townhouse
Nashville
Womankind Books sold coffee
Texas
San Antonio
I’ve been told there were feminist restaurants there but have
not found any
Utah
Salt Lake City
A Woman's Place Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Vermont
Burlington
Pearls Coffeehouse and Women’s Restaurant
The Fresh Ground Coffeehouse
Brattleboro
Common Ground Coffeehouse
Virginia
Charlottesville
Muldowney’s Women’s Restaurant and Bar
Norfolk
Shirley's Restaurant and Bar
Richmond
Everywoman’s Coffeehouse
Roanoake
The Park Bar Restaurant Private Club
Washington
Pullman
The Gertrude Stein/ Alice B Tokias Memorial Salon and Tea at the
Lesbian Resource Center
Women's Coffee Coven
Charity Corner
Fran
Glors Creole Restaurant
Seattle
A Special Place Womyn’s Restaurant and Coffeehouse
Innerspace Women's Coffeehouse
It's About Time Women's Bookcenter Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Lesbian Separatist Potluck Brunches
Sappho’s
Mama Dot’s
Off Ramp Café
Wildrose Tavern Women’s Restaurant
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Appleton
Doris's Super Bar
Madison
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
The Cabaret Room
Mother Willy’s Street Pub and Restaurant
Crescent Moon Women's Coffeehouse
Lysistrata Feminist Restaurant and Cultural
Center
Milwaukee
The Beer Garden Bar and Restaurant
Our Way
Sister Moon Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Sister Moon II
Wyoming
CANADA
Alberta
Edmonton
Common Woman Books sold coffee
British Columbia
Vancouver
Full Circle Coffeehouse
Sister’s Bar and Restaurant
Vancouver Women's Bookstore sold coffee
Victoria
Women’s Coffeehouse
Manitoba
Winnipeg
The Women's Building had Ms. Purdy’s Social Club Coffeehouse and Restaurant
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Red Herring Co-op Books sold coffee
Ontario
Hamilton
Café Aquarius
Mrs. Dalloway's Feminist Bookstore sold coffee
Ottawa
Chez Nous Restaurant at the Ottawa Women's Center
The Overdraft (women’s entertainment nights)
Toronto
Clementine’s Café, Restaurant, Bar, All-Women’s Cultural Center
Gaia’s Garden Café Womyn’s Restaurant and Space
Three of Cups Coffeehouse
The Women’s
Common
Together Bar and Restaurant
Lipstick
Café Restaurant and Bar
Fly
By Night
Waterloo
The Women's
Place
Quebec
Montreal
ADGLQ Café (associations pour les droits des gais et lesbiennes du
quebec)
L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe (with food and coffee currently only at special events but plans to have more cafe offerings soon)
A Novo Vegetarian Restaurant
Café les Entretiens
Café Haut-Pluriel
L’Antecdote (both locations)
Le Café de La Librarie des Femmes
L’Exit Café
Les Impertinentes
Chez
Jean Pierre
La Paryse
Montreal Women's Information Center Coffeehouse
Rimouski
Club Politique Feminine
Quebec City
Chez Farbo Studio
Yukon Territory
Whitehorse
Rendez-vous Coffeehouse