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Newly expanded, Lenox Saphire offers it all – dining, cocktails, live music and an adjoining authentic French patisserie kicking out baked goods and treats. Here is where you learn to become a bon vivant. Merci beaucoup!
Paris meets Senegal in this newly renovated bakery and café serving buttery croissants, baguettes, and tasty French pastries plus a full menu of French Moroccan and Vietnamese inspired foods.
If you enjoy eating with your hands, spicy foods or the combination go to this family run Eritrean and Ethiopian restaurant. For 25 years they have been making traditional dishes for hungry patrons. Roll up your sleeves and dig in!
Here is a restaurant that cut its teeth downtown in Gramercy Park for years before finding a second home here in Harlem on 139th street. The cousin-chefs/owners celebrate an amalgamation of tastes from their native West African roots with French cookery and Mediterranean simplicity. Taste for yourself!
This Somalian restaurant is the first of its kind in Little Africa, Harlem and perhaps New York City. They might not have been here when you needed Somalian food, but they are right on time! Inside their small footprint of a restaurant, they are serving big flavors. First time? Try the popular Somali dish hilib ari of roasted goat served with rice and bizbaz sauce. Sounds serious!
At the forefront of African tea gastronomy, Serengeti Teas & Spices has been piquing the interest of Harlem locals with their unique botanical blends, sea salts and more. Now located on east 125th street, Serengeti expanded to a full‐service restaurant serving contemporary African food. Stop in, start with a pot of their unique teas and gently move into appetizers straight through to dessert. We are sure it will be your cup of tea (classic pun intended).
Rooted in traditional African home cooking that emphasizes African-grown ingredients, Teranga is a culinary journey into the depth, diversity, and deliciousness that the motherland has to offer. In Senegal, “Teranga” is perhaps the most highly regarded value. Roughly translated, it means “good hospitality.” In practice, Teranga reflects how one treats a guest—with open arms and a seat around the bowl.
Tsion (pronounced “see on”) Café and Bakery is a hip, cosmopolitan café located in historic Sugar Hill in Harlem, NYC. We serve Ethiopian-Mediterranean dishes, from healthy locally sourced ingredients. Besides our healthy food, we offer cultural events, such poetry readings, live musicians, a writers series and ongoing conversations with Harlem residents.