According to a recent Wall Street Journal article on Les Ambassades, the South Harlem eatery will soon expand further north to the block between 126th and 127th Street on Lenox Avenue:
LINK. The cafe that serves up French pastries, African and Vietnamese cuisine on FDB and 119th Street should have their second location on the west side of Lenox seeing that Sylvia's pretty much takes over the east side. We mentioned that work permits were up for a pizza parlor at 321 Lenox had been filed in 2009 but the gutted space just served as a Christmas tree pop up shop most recently:
LINK. Then there's 325 Lenox Avenue (lower photo) which we saw some activity on in December and work permits do show that a restaurant had previously been planned for the space a year ago (but nothing new has been filed recently). There will apparently be one less empty storefront on this side of the street by next month according to the WSJ article, so we will have to wait and see for the final location of the new Les Ambassades. Red Rooster and Chez Lucienne is across the ways so upper Lenox might be the big area to move along this year.
This sounds good. I always enjoy eating at Les Ambassades. The service is great as is the ambience and the staff are lovely as well. Also, I have had pastries from there and they do pastries very well and did I mention the price was right also. So it seems no matter where you are in Harlem you can have a good dining experience and your choices are great also.
ReplyDeleteGetting there Greg. This will be a great addition to that corner.
ReplyDeleteThis is huge for upper Lenox as it really cements these two blocks above 125th into a solid restaurant row. It seems Chez Lucienne was a few years ahead of the curve and Sylvias 48 years ahead of it’s time in establishing here.
ReplyDeleteI just passed by and at 331 Lenox (a few doors north of the photo) construction is well-advanced on a place that clearly intends to serve food. Kitchen equipment is quite visible. In my eye this is the only location on that block that would have a hope of being ready to open in as little as a month. Very promising.
ReplyDeleteI love the food here but we never go because the service is so painfully slow. It's been about a year--has it improved? Usually it takes us close to an hour to get our meal ordered and on the table.
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