Food in Harlem

Carl Redding opened this on Mother's Day 1999 and named it for his grandmother Amy Ruth Moore Bass, who taught him to cook in Alabama. The chicken and waffle platters are named after people, and the one carrying Al Sharpton's name is there because Redding worked at his National Action Network.

Monday to Thursday 11:30am to 9:30pm, Friday and Saturday 11am to 10:30pm, Sunday 11am to 9:30pm

Alvin Lee Smalls found a rugelach recipe while working the bakery at New York-Presbyterian in 1964 and spent six months getting his own version right. He has been selling it in Harlem ever since and he is still the one baking. The sweet potato pie is worth the walk on its own.

Limited and irregular. Listings show Wednesday 11am to 7pm and Sunday noon to 5pm, and the other days could not be confirmed. Call before you walk over

The Frederick Douglass Boulevard branch of the cookie bakery Connie McDonald and Pam Weekes started on the Upper West Side in 1995. The cookies come out of the oven the size of a fist and are sold warm at the counter. There is a line most of the day and it clears at the pace of the register.

Mon to Wed, 7am to 9pm. Thu to Sun, 7am to 10pm

Sylvia Woods opened this on Lenox Avenue in 1962 and her family still runs it. Smothered chicken and candied yams come out of the same kitchen they always have. A band plays through the Saturday jazz brunch and the Sunday gospel brunch, from half past twelve to four.

Mon, Tue and Sun, 11am to 8pm. Wed to Sat, 11am to 10pm