📍 Harlem, New York City

Harlem’s crown jewel and the cradle of Black American music — Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, and countless others launched careers here at Amateur Night. The neon marquee on 125th S...

Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem landmark is part restaurant, part cultural institution, part community center. The fried chicken is the bird the whole neighborhood talks about, the corn...

Pastitalia is a build-your-own pasta spot on Lenox Avenue in Harlem where you pick a pasta shape and pair it with a sauce. The menu runs through Italian classics like Bolognese, Am...

You cannot get a table at Rao's. Not because it's booked — because the tables are owned. The same families have held the same tables for decades at this 115-year-old East Harlem It...

The institution for artists of African descent, reopened 2025 in a new David Adjaye-designed building on West 125th Street. The Artist-in-Residence program has launched Kehinde Wil...

Sylvia Woods opened this Harlem restaurant in 1962 and it became the Queen of Soul Food. The fried chicken, the mac and cheese, the collard greens, and the cornbread are all exactl...

Marcus Samuelsson's underground supper club beneath Red Rooster serves live jazz, elevated cocktails, and Southern-inspired small plates in a sultry basement setting. The fried chi...

An Italian tavern on Lenox Avenue at 127th in Harlem, run by Lenox Hospitality Group. It's a neighborhood trattoria-tavern pitched at Harlem locals, with food and drink and a rotat...

A Basque-leaning Spanish spot on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, built around the San Sebastián tradition of sharing tapas over a good glass of wine. The owner traces it to...

Central Harlem's craft beer bar, billed as Manhattan's first 100% African American-owned beer spot, with a deep and rotating draft-and-can list built around local and niche breweri...