Sylvia's Restaurant

328 Lenox Ave, New York City, New York

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Phone:

+1 212 828 6933, +1 212 996 0660

Website:

www.sylviassoulfood.com

Email:

info@sylviasrestaurant.com

For down-home food in uptown Harlem, Sylvia's is the place to go. Dishes are homey and old-fashioned, with ... more on Yahoo! Travel

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72 reviews

84% of guests recommend this place.

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The food was okay, but not as good as all of the hype. more on CitySearch

During our travels to the BIG APPLE,we made it our business to go to the historical Harlem to check out the neighbor-hood on a rainy day to get a close up of the Legendary Apollo Theatre but for the most part we wanted to visit the Legendary Sylvia's soul food restaurant. more on Yahoo! Travel

Sylvia's is a family owned and operated soul food restaurant that has achieved institution status. more on igougo

I was happy to see the coconut-pineapple cake is still there. more on Yahoo! Travel

Some items are better than others but an overall pleasant soul food experience. more on Yahoo! Travel

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Ribs! Need I say more? Portions are humongous. You can definitely feed two people with an entree. They also have a selection ... more on TripAdvisor

My husband and I went to the city to see a broadway play and decided to take a cab to Sylvias for soul food. It was a waste of trip. I ordered the fried catfish okra and rice . My husband ordered the ... more on TripAdvisor

The food does not match the hype of this celebrated soul food restaurant. The fried chicken was tasty and tender and so were the chicken livers, the vegetables and mashed potatoes were average. The wa ... more on TripAdvisor

Restaurant a little small, and the food was average. Not too impressed. The staff were attentive. more on TripAdvisor

Sylvia's Restaurant has been serving food in Harlem since 1962. Took the family up to Harlem on the subway #3 Seventh Avenue Express and got off at 125th Street (Lenox Avenue). Sylvia's is a classic o ... more on TripAdvisor

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YEARS back when I was in high school I dined at Sylvia's for the first time. The food was FABULOUS! (This was before the restaurant's renovations,new decor and discovery by White and Asian people. These days, Sylvia's food tastes ... more on Yahoo! Travel

I love they fish!! its the bomb!! more on Yahoo! Travel

We rather stumbled in to this one, as we were going to a show at the Apollo and decided to just walk around and see what was there- and when we saw Sylvia's was right around the corner, we couldn't resist and boy were we not disappointed! ... more on Yahoo! Travel

For years I`ve been eating at sylvia`s but it fell off for some reason, not everything is bad but some of the food was a bit bland didn`t have the umph like it did in ... more on Yahoo! Travel

All that and a bag of chips!! It's everything was so good. Yes, I tried just about everything on the menu. And the service ... more on Yahoo! Travel