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The grande dame of New York soul food ... The family tradition continues at Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem. From left: the founder Sylvia Woods’s grandson chef Marcus Woods; her grandson ...
New York’s legendary “Queen of Soul Food” Sylvia Woods, whose iconic restaurant drew dignitaries and ordinary folk from all over the world to Harlem to taste her fried chicken, died Thursday ...
Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant ... was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly ...
greets patron Carrie Haynes-Madsen at her restaurant, “Sylvia's,” in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Wood died in Mount Vernon, N.Y. on Thursday, July 19, 2012. She was 86. (AP Photo ...
Sylvia’s Restaurant has been a ... Black-owned businesses to date and Harlem’s most legendary soul food kitchen. In the first episode of theGrio’s new series, “Legacy,” third-generation ...
Opened by Sylvia Woods, a South Carolina-born cook and culinary entrepreneur, in 1962, the restaurant remains a family affair, owned and operated by generations of Woodses. There’s a short wine ...