Sylvia's Restaurant

Soul Food | Harlem

Food20 Decor15 Service19 Cost$32

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A "true icon of Harlem", this circa-1962 soul food "mainstay" warms hearts with "generous" helpings of Southern classics and a "fun" Sunday gospel brunch; old-timers opine it's "not what it used to be" but allow it's still "worth a visit", as the "tour buses out front" suggest.

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