Restaurants & Food
Sylvia's Restaurant
New York, NY
Sylvia's opened on Malcolm X Boulevard in 1962 and has been a Harlem landmark for more than sixty years. Its founder, Sylvia Woods, was widely called the Queen of Soul Food.
The kitchen is unreconstructed and better for it: golden fried shrimp, barbecue short ribs, cornmeal-dusted tilapia, smothered chicken. Weekend brunch runs long.
The restaurant takes reservations and online orders, and the Woods family name still sits behind the scholarship foundation attached to it.
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How we sourced this
Listed from a curated guide published by New York City Tourism + Conventions and from public information on the business's own website, both checked on 17 August 2026.
- Black-owned —
Listed in the New York City Tourism + Conventions guide to Black-owned businesses in Harlem.
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