Sylvia's - known as the Queen of Soul Food

Sylvia’s
328 Malcolm X Blvd.  (bet. 126-127th street)
New York, NY 10027
212-996-0660

website:  sylviarestaurant.com

Hours:

Monday             11:00 am - 10:30 pm
Tuesday             11:00 am - 10:30 pm
Wednesday       9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Thursday           9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Friday                9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Saturday           9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Sunday             11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Breakfast served until 12:00 pm - Monday - Friday  & 2:00 pm on Saturday

Early one saturday morning....

Country style slab bacon, two eggs and grits - $10.95

Woke up one Saturday morning and I just felt like having a good old country breakfast.  So I decided to visit Sylvia’s.   Sylvia is known as the southern comfort food the Queen of Soul Food restaurant world wide.  It nest in the Harlem community of Manhattan and has been since 1962.  As the years pass Sylvia added more space to accommodate her growing crowd.  You can sit at the counter and watch the wait staff bustle around dishing up plates of food, or you can sit at a table and watch dishes being brought to others while you wait for yours. 

I arrived around 10:30 am and it was so crowded I decided to sit at the counter and I ordered the country style slab bacon, one scrambled egg with cheese and onion, grits topped off with a cup of orange juice.  That bacon, that bacon, that bacon, brought back memories that keep getting in my way.  The meat was tasty and the rind, ohhhhh the rind!!!  The grits were smooth and the medium soft scrambled eggs were cooked exactly like I like them.  And yes you see a lot of pepper on my eggs and grits, I'm a pepper person, don't judge!  Okay okay so I started eating before I took the picture, don't blame the girl.  Now back to the bacon.  Tender, juicy, full of flavor, oh the rind, the rind.  And yes you see a lot of pepper on my eggs and grits, I'm a pepper person, don't judge!

The only think about sitting at the counter is that you can enter the restaurant and sit and have already made up your mind of what you will have, but as soon as you see the wait staff lift the lids off of the other foods then its game on.  Do you stick to your first choice, change your mind, or have a battle of the mind.  

Yep its back to the counter for another round on another day, night, evening, afternoon, twilight, mid-day, after sunset, when the sun is setting, when the moon is out, on a cloudy day, maybe a rainy day.  Yep yep, I'm going back.

Since I originally wrote this blog, I have been back several times.  The last time I dined indoor was twice during the first week in January 2020 when my daughter Teria and granddaughters Skye and Cherokee and great-granddaughter Jetaime, better known as Jet were visiting from California.  Also my daughter Stacey and my granddaughter Alana.  My daughter Brandy and my niece's Pheon and Tawana.  Food was still great and we had an amazing time, laughing, reminiscing and just enjoying each other's company.  

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