1/2 I had no idea I’d be eating at Amy Ruth’s on Saturday. I’d been sent to review Uptown Renaissance across the street, but it was shuttered and blanketed by a large For Rent banner. Urgh, it figures that when...
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I happen to be a big fan of Soul Food and Southern cuisine, but I have to admit, I don’t eat much of it around here, save for a few barbecue places that I like to go to (1) (2). Quite frankly I tend to save my Fried Chicken and Smothered Pork Chops, Cornbread and Greens for when I am travelling to places like New Orleans, North Carolina and Atlanta, because there’s not much great Southern food to go around in New York City.
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Last Friday I ate in Harlem with Stephanie. I had never been there before, but since she was living there for the summer it was a good opportunity to visit the area and not make Stephanie schlep downtown to see me. She showed me this mildly frightening flyer (not found in Harlem, but I thought it'd be a nice warm and fuzzy way to open up the entry) while we hung out in her room. I'm not sure if the dude is vaguely pointing at himself or attempting to point at the reader.
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Chef Carl Redding opened the restaurant a year after his grandmother, Amy Ruth, passed away. They’re not kidding when they say that they offer home-style cooking because you can taste the love in their collard greens and in the gravy of their mashed potatoes. The honey-dipped fried chicken was to die for, flavorful both inside and out. I couldn’t have enough of the crispy skin and even the white meat was tasty.
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We went on our second outing to dinner outside the confines of our neighborhood. We get together with another family, hop on the subway to our destination and do dinner. Last time we went out to Woodside, Queens. The subway is part of the experience, at least we say it is.
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This weekend, TVGal and I left Nosher in Hell’s Kitchen with his reading and embarked upon a quest to find some great Southern cooking in New York. TVGal, a die-hard Brooklynite, had a few recommendations in Kings County, but in the end, we ended up meeting in Harlem, a neighborhood with a perhaps unsurpassed concentration of Southern and soul food cooking. I had heard of a few of the best-known purveyors of soul food in the area, such as Sylvia’s, Miss Maude’s, and Miss Mamie’s Spoonbread restaurants, but TVGal had eaten at Amy Ruth’s before and was stark-raving mad about returning there, so to how could I argue?
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