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| Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem
(often called "Sylvia's Soul Food" or just "Sylvia's") is a soul food
restaurant in
New York City. It was founded in 1962 by Sylvia Woods. It
has since expanded to a much larger space at 328 Lenox Avenue (Lenox and
127th Street), and an adjacent building. The restaurant also sells a
line of prepared foods, beauty and skin care items, cookbooks, and a
children's book written by Woods. Woods purchased the original luncheonette by borrowing money from her mother, who had to mortgage her farm to provide it. "I know I had to make it or else my mama was gonna lose her farm. So I gave it all that I had to give," Woods later explained. The restaurant attracts a clientele that ranges from Harlem locals to visiting celebrities. Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Caroline Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Magic Johnson are among those who have dined there. We have never heard a bad word about the food at Sylvia's Soul Food and in fact on a recent trip to New York enjoyed some of the best home-style Southern Cookin' we've ever tasted. From the Harlem Style Waffle and Fried Chicken to some of the best BBQ North of the Mason Dixon Line, Sylvia's has the comfort food you crave. For those of you that are early risers, breakfast is served! |
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