Harlem Restaurant Week Brings Deals To Vibrant Food Scene

HARLEM, NY — The culinary delights of Harlem are being showcased in a restaurant week packed full of deals.

Now through Sept. 2, the neighborhood's increasingly renowned eating scene will be hosting special prices at 16 restaurants.

Whether your thing is soul food, Irish fare, Asian or African, you'll find it in this neighborhood.

Harlem Restaurant Week “celebrates the culture of Harlem and brings the international diversity of Harlem to visitors, New Yorkers and tourists through Harlem’s food,” according to organizers of Restaurant Week, which is part of the annual Harlem Week festival.

Check out this year’s participating restaurants:

Charles’ Pan Fried Chicken Restaurant
Where: Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 132nd Street
Featured food: Fried chicken, turkey wings, smothered pork chops

Coogan’s
Where: Broadway at West 169th Street
Featured food: Dublin-style shepherd’s pie, fish and chips or corned beef and cabbage

Cove Lounge
Where: Malcolm X Boulevard between West 126th and West 127th streets
Featured food: Jumbo lump crab cakes with mango salsa, lobster macaroni and cheese served with house salad

Floridita Restaurant
Where: 12th Avenue at West 130th Street
Featured food: chicken, Spanish sausage and saffron rice casserole or clams, mussels, shrimp, chicken and Spanish chorizo in saffron rice

Harlem Shake
Where: West 124th Street at Malcolm X Boulevard
Featured items: House-made beef, turkey or veggie burger; signature Harlem milkshake

Make My Cake
Where: Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard at West 139th Street
Featured food: Red velvet cake, sweet potato cheesecake

Manna’s
Where: Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 126th Street
Featured food: Hot and sweet chicken or kale and beet salad, both sold by the pound

Melba’s
Where: West 114th Street at Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Featured food: Pulled pork short rib sliders with cheddar cheese, signature southern fried chicken and eggnog waffle, Charleston jumbo shrimp

Olive Garden
Where: West 125th Street at Malcolm X Boulevard
Featured items: Braised beef and tortelloni; shrimp and chicken carbonara; peach-mango smoothie; kiwi limonata.

Oso
Where: Amsterdam Avenue at West 140th Street
Featured food: Grilled caesar salad with sweet corn picadita, mangoes and shrimp; watermelon salad; and pescado, whole-fried porgy with mango salsa

Patsy’s Restaurant & Pizzeria
Where: First Avenue between East 117th and East 118th streets
Featured food: Original coal oven whole pizzas, chicken parmigiana

Ponty Bistro
Where: Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard at West 139th Street
Featured food: Dakar chicken wings with pineapple sauce, seafood linguini, kabash lamb shank

Red Rooster Harlem
Where: Malcolm X Boulevard between West 125th and West 126th streets
Featured food: Marcus’ cornbread, Mr. Bojangles lobster roll, crabby cake sandwich

Renaissance Harlem
Where: Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard at West 132nd Street
Featured food: Cod fritters; lobster and shrimp salad or braised short ribs with mashed potatoes, onions and carrots

Sylvia’s
Where: Malcolm X Boulevard at West 126th Street
Featured food: Cornmeal-dusted fried catfish or Sylvia’s world-famous barbecue ribs

Whole Foods Harlem
Where: West 125th Street at Malcolm X Boulevard
Featured food: Assorted Cuban sandwiches with a special Cuban coffee bar

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