UPTOWNflavor

Charles’ Southern Style Kitchen
308 Lenox Ave., nr. 125th St.;
212-722-7727

Charles Gabriel, Harlem’s reigning fried-chicken maestro, makes his second move “downtown” this week, when he and his Rack & Soul partner, Michael Eberstadt, transform a corner of Eberstadt’s Slice of Harlem into a satellite branch of Charles’ Southern Style Kitchen. Gabriel shares the pizzeria’s seating and kitchen, but service will be buffet style, as at his original 151st Street outpost. Staples like oxtails, ribs, and that fried chicken will be available daily, but priced by the pound instead of his all-you-can-eat uptown format. “There’s only about twenty seats,” says Gabriel. “If I do all-you-can-eat, it would take too long to turn tables.”

Source: New York Magazine