Category: West + East Harlem
Reviews of East and West Harlem Restaurants
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2211 Frederick Douglass Boulevard corner of 119th Street $45 each for 2 people, with drinks, with tip 212/662.8462 ♥ ♥ Finally, a new addition to the Harlem restaurant scene worth writing about. Shauna and I walked around the neighborhood to try and cool off from the hot Saturday weather and got a drink at Bier…
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As a Harlem resident for the last 10 years, I’m all for new bars and restaurants in the area. The neighborhood has definitely changed. You see more new faces walking around, cafés and boutiques, but its growth is still slower than Brooklyn’s. Maison Harlem tries hard. A well-dressed gentleman–and may I say good-looking too–approached our…
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3183 Broadway between Tiemann Place and 125th Street $20 each for 4 people, with drinks, with tip 646/559.2862 ♥ ♥ Ramen in Harlem? This is seriously the best thing that has happened in my neighborhood in the 7+ years I’ve lived there. Notable: 1. Happy hour $10 Sapporo pitchers after 10pm when I visited on…
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310 Lenox Avenue between 125th and 126th Streets 212/792.9001 $86 for three, without drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ I’m very familiar with the Harlem Sunday brunch crowd. I’ve biked enough past the Baptist churches on Adam Clayton and Lenox Avenues to know that after service, large crowds gather at the nearby bakery or join the…
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2394 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard on 140th Street 212/281.1477 $10 for one, without drinks, with tip ♥ It was counter-productive to bike eight miles in Central Park and only end up eating the calories I lost, but I was famished and Harlem Wing & Waffle called my name. I have no idea who thought of…
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348 West 145th Street between Edgecombe and St. Nicholas Avenues 212/491.5859 $50 for three, with 3 juices, without tip half a ♥ I consider myself an omnivore and don’t turn my back on vegetarian dishes even though my first choice will always be meat or seafood. Once in a while, I crave all vegetables to…
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701 West 135th Street and Twelfth Avenue 212/491.8303 $104 for two, with 3 drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ If anyone in the restaurant industry deserves a break, it’s King Phojanakong, owner and chef of Kuma Inn in the lower east side. I don’t know if it’s the Filipino-Thai upbringing that keeps him humble but I’m…
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East Harlem, the neighborhood bordered by 96th and 125th Streets between Fifth Avenue and the east river, is referred to as El Barrio because it has been a predominantly Puerto Rican enclave. It literally means “the neighborhood”. Some people would even say it goes all the way to 142nd because Dominicans and other Caribbean groups…
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corner of 139th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard no phone number $25 for a whole rack of pork ribs ♥ ♥ Amidst the condo buildings going up as fast as you can say gentrification, there still remains the open drums on the streets used as makeshift grills to sell home-marinated barbecue in Harlem. The…
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corner of 145th Street and St. Nicholas 212/491.8323 $12 for two fish and chips, take-away ♥ Harlem is teeming with fish and chips stores, and living in the neighborhood has taught me that the longer the line outside, the better the food will be. (It doesn’t work the same way downtown.) Case in point: Famous…
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231 West 145th Street between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Avenues 212/862.5335 about $31 for four people, with two sodas, without tip ♥ The day Oklahoma Smoke opened in west Harlem, they ran out of meat. I stopped by to check their menu and they told me they just didn’t anticipate how many people were…
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2104 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 114th Street 212/222.3323 about $30 for two egg meals with iced coffee, with tip ♥ I’m always trying to support my neighborhood, so when the bus drove by Society after one of my bootcamp sessions in Central Park, I took note to visit. There were diners eating outside under large…