Istwa Nou • Our Story
Once upon a time, beside the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, there was a marketplace. Whatever you needed — kola pulled cold from the ice seller's box, cloth and sandals, books for school, cocoa for Sunday morning — somebody would point and say the same three words:
"Bò katedral la" — beside the cathedral. That's where everything was.
Bòkatedral is that marketplace, reborn online: everything Haitian — authentic products and trusted essentials — delivered to your door, wherever the diaspora calls home.
Sa Nou Pote • What We Carry
Not "island-style." Not "tropical-inspired." The actual goods, from the actual place.
Choucoune kola brewed the way it has always been — cane sugar, real flavor, no shortcuts.
Creamy corn-milk drink, gently spiced — tankou lakay granmè.
True Haitian long grain — the aroma and bite no substitute matches.
Grate, simmer with milk, cinnamon and star anise — Sunday morning, done right.
We serve the diaspora — Brooklyn, Miami, Boston, and everywhere fanmi landed — drinks and pantry packed cold from Florida, and free US shipping over $75.
Sòti Ayiti, rive lakay ou — from Haiti, straight to your home.
Mache A • The Marketplace
The square was always many hands — Madan Sara with her rice, the cocoa lady, the tailor, the bookseller, the man with the coldest kola. So Bòkatedral is becoming a home for vetted Haitian sellers across food and delicacies, fashion and footwear, books, beauty, home goods and more — every vendor checked, every product verified, so the diaspora shops one trusted place.
Yon sèl kote, tout gou lakay — one place, every taste of home.