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Vanishing Harlem

Photo credit: jeremoss via flickr.com

Jeremiah of Vanishing New York deconstructs the deconstruction of Harlem on his blog. He visited the strip of businesses that were being pushed out on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, near 125th Street. Some of these businesses had been in the neighborhood for two decades, and included House of Seafood, Manna’s, Bobby’s Happy [...]

Talay is Hiring

via Craigslist
Talay Restaurant is a new Restaurant in Harlem. We are on a strip that includes another restaurant and Club Body. Our Restaurant is Downtown Chique with Uptown flavor. We are interested in hiring both males and females for server positions, as well as females for the hostess position. Please come dresssed to impress.
We are [...]

It’s Official - M&G Diner Closed

M&G Diner closed, West 125th Street, originally uploaded by Eating In Translation.

Writes a longtime employee of M&G: “I am sorry to say that now it is officially over the diner has been sold we left for vacation on June 29, 2008 we will not be back. We are very sorry about the inconvenience to the [...]

What’s New?

Justin’s been around the neighborhood with his camera and has snapped up all the new places to eat, play and simply hang out in the neighborhood. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

The Tyrone Birkett Group at The River Room

Friday June 20th at the River Room of Harlem at 7:30pm

The River Room of Harlem is a beautiful restaurant and we will be presenting some new gospel jazz from the upcoming CD. Nice view of the Hudson River and the G.W. Bridge, good food, and a music charge of only $5.00!
Your read that right…$5.00!
Friday, [...]

139 th St. & Malcolm X Blvd.

139 th St. & Malcolm X Blvd., originally uploaded by NARMER.
Whoa! How long has that Subway been there? Who’s the owner? I remember a former “Apprentice,” Stacie J, owned a shop on 125th Street.

Grazie! New Harlem Eatery

From the pages of the New York Post, columnist Steve Cuozzo lets us know that Faith Hope Consolo has garnered a deal to bring Ottomanelli to “south” Harlem:
Popular Italian eatery Ottomanelli is coming to the southern fringe of Harlem.
The chain has signed a lease to open its sixth city location at handsomely rehabbed 1325 Fifth [...]

Two Many Chefs

TALAY With the magnetic attraction of the uptown Fairway and Columbia University development, chefs and bartenders are replacing auto mechanics in west Harlem, near the river. This ambitious Southeast Asian place, opening on Thursday, with a waterfall at the entrance, has two chefs: Soulayphet Schwader, far right, who was born in Laos and who worked [...]

‘Que

 

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (View menu)
646 W. 131st St., at Twelfth Ave.; 212-694-1777
The exhaustive menu at this Harlem eatery features every kind of BBQ combination you could want, plus a delicious break from all the beef and pork in the form of pit-smoked spicy chicken wings with blue-cheese dressing. Interesting sides like the BBQ fried rice and [...]

First Look: Talay Thai-Latin Restaurant

One of our readers had the chance to swing by Talay over the weekend and shared the following first impression with us:
I went [to Talay] with some fellow uptown friends Saturday night.
The menu was pricier than I was expecting and more limited. Maybe since the place is new they are still figuring it out. [...]

Talay is Open for Business

The restaurant formerly known as Thai Alma is now open!
Crappy camera phone shots.. but I went with a friend to Covo this weekend (which was nice) but noticed that the Thai-Latin spot, Talay, was open.
Man, that lil’ corner of Harlem came outta’ nowhere! When I first moved to NY my cousin lived on 135th [...]

Top 5 Uptownflavor.com Search Terms

Being the publishers of a weblog, we have a little crystal ball that tells us how some of our readers accidentally stumble onto our site. There are a number of search terms that show up regularly on the list. For the latecomers, here are the answers to your top 5 requests:
Jasmine Guy: Yes, Whitley [...]

Rewind: The Missing Ingredient

Back in September of last year, one of our editors opened up a conversation about what’s missing in Harlem. Whether she was being sarcastic or not she felt that her post would merely “ignite a flurry of silence and maybe some cricket noises.” Not surprisingly we got close to 50 responses in that thread alone! [...]

Breaking: Alma Thai is Now Talay

If you are a regular reader, you know that we’ve been following the progress of what was originally slated to be Alma Thai in the poppin’ Viaduct Valley/Harlem Piers area. A reader has tipped us off that the name is now being changed to Talay and they are hiring waitstaff and managers via Craigslist.
No [...]

What’s Up: Amy Ruth’s Brooklyn Still Not Cooking

So, last year we found out that Harlem favorite, Amy Ruth’s, was going to be opening up another location in the old Gage & Tollner location on Fulton Mall. Some reported it was supposed to happen by the end of the year, while others reported February of this year. As of Tuesday, the [...]

Part II: What’s Up With The Lions at the Gate?

UPDATE:
A couple of months ago we started snooping around regarding these Lions casually hanging around on 11th Ave. We then found out a Latin-Thai fusion restaurant called Alma Thai was slated to open there. Well I’ve got your update right here! I was walking by the area yesterday and workers were putting the final touches [...]

Liquor Licenses: The Trickle Up Theory

Unless you have been living on the YFZ ranch for the past year or two, you’ve probably noticed that liquor licenses in New York are drying up faster than gasoline at a $2.00/gal. station. To some, it feels like we are entering a second prohibition period. First you can’t dance publically, then you can’t [...]

Rain, Rain…Go Away!

Well, it doesn’t take a Doppler 2000 or Mike Woods the Weatherman to further sell me on today’s rainy conditions. As I write, giant droplets of water bash against the window reminding me of the threat that the Sun is still being held hostage…somewhere. I haven’t been told what the ransom demands are. However, the [...]

What’s up with Maroons?

Last year we brought word that Maroons, the hip Jamaican/Southern cuisine eatery on 16th street was planning to build a second location on 145th Street. Then we were given more hope when they had posted a computer rendition of what the restaurant will look like as well as the seating arrangement. After nearly a year [...]