Dining with Miss Lil Archives - Harlem World Magazine

Dining With Miss Lil: Harlem Restaurant Owner Charles Gabriel Serving His Food At 2019 NYCWFF

By Lil Nickelson Harlem restaurant owner Charles Gabriel of Charles’ Pan-Fried Chicken, Inc. was invited to be one of twenty-five food establishments to participate in the opening event of the 2019 New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF).Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Harlem Local Vendors Program Showcase Held At Settepani’s

By Lil Nickelson In 2015, Harlem Park to Park (“HP2P”) partnered with Whole Foods Market to launch the Harlem Local Vendors Program (“HLVP”). Continue reading

With Miss Lil: Wells Fargo Bank Opens A 2nd Branch In Harlem

By Lil Nickelson On Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) opened its second branch office in Harlem at 286 Lenox Avenue in between 125th and 124th Street, in the ground floor space that the Lenox Lounge used to occupy. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Harlem Week 2019 Was In Full Swing

By Lil Nickelson On Wednesday, July 18^th, 2018 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stated, “You have provided proof to me that Harlem maybe a few blocks farther north, but tonight Gracie Mansion is Harlem.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Dream With Your Eyez Open Presents Vision Board Workshops In Harlem

By Lil Nickelson Monique Caines-Talley is Harlem born and raised and she’s a woman who always dreamed about owning her own business someday. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: The Harlem EatUp! Luminary Award Dinner At Ginny’s Supper Club

By Lil Nickelson The Luminary Award Dinner for the 5th Annual Harlem EatUp Festival was a memorable event held on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at Ginny's Supper Club in the lower level of Red Rooster Harlem.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Harlem-based NY Urban League’s 54th Annual Awards Gala 2019

By Lil Nickelson and photographs by Rudy Collins The New York Urban League (“NYUL") has been helping New Yorkers gain access to equal opportunity in employment, education, financial and technological literacy and more for over 90 years. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Great American Hat Show 2019 Is Afrikon Forever

By Lil Nickelson and photographs by Rudy Collins Every year for the last seven years Harriet Rosebud Hats puts on the Great American Hat Show to showcase Harriet Rosebud’s hat creations and each year she picks a different theme.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: God’s Love We Deliver By Helping Those With Need

By Lil Nickelson Since 1985 God’s Love We Deliver have prepared and delivered food to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves free of charge without regard to the person’s income throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester and Nassau Counties and Hudson County, NJ.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Marcus Samuelsson’s Black History Month Dinner Series

By Lil Nickelson Chef/ restauranteur Marcus Samuelsson wanted to celebrate Black History Month in 2019 in a different way than he has in the past. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Fine Greek Cuisine At Elysian Fields Café In The Village Of Harlem

By Lil Nickelson Elysian Fields Café has been open for about two months serving up a taste of the Mediterranean through rustic Greek cuisine in the village of Harlem at 1207 Amsterdam Avenue in between 119^th and 120^th Streets. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Marcus Samuelsson To Host Black History Dinner Series Throughout 2019

By Lil Nickelson Marcus Samuelsson to Host Black History Dinner Series Throughout 2019, leave it to Samuelsson to come up with a dining series to honor Black History Month that will happen through the year, not just for a month.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: NJ Jets Offensive Tackle Kelvin Beachum Giving On World Food Day

By Lil Nickelson Some people try to forget the hard times they experience in life; not New York Jets offensive tackle 29-years old Kelvin Beachum.Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Pitmaster Rodney Scott Comes To Harlem

By Lil Nickelson On Friday, October 12th, 2018 I was heading to my workspace and I was hungry so, I stopped by Sylvia’s Restaurant to get some lunch to go. Continue reading

Dining With Miss Lil: Chef Ed’s Mixtape Dinner At Ginny’s Supper Club Was “The Place to Be”

By Lil Nickelson I got invited to cover Executive Chef Ed Brumfield’s Mixtape Dinner at Ginny’s Supper Club that was held on Sunday, October 7th, 2018 evening in the lower level of Red Rooster Harlem located at 310 Lenox Avenue in the village of Harlem from 6 pm until 9 pm. Continue reading