Harlem Seafood Soul — Restaurant in New York

Absent, is the only word to describe this.

With high hopes and very hungry stomach I went, following all the directions to 125th and the statue, and when I got there? A statue, an empty street but certainly, no food cart.

Disappointed only begins to describe it. At this point, 1 star.

So I went back to the website where there is a reference that they've now set up shop in Brooklyn. Hie thee to Brooklyn, where lo! I find Harlem Seafood Soul. And this was where they gained their second star. The fact that I got some food!

Old Fashioned Fish and Chips; Shrimp and Grits; Mac Cheeze deep fried balls. so, here we go:

Old Fashioned Fish & Chips. In its favour, the coating on the fish is dried to perfection. The fish and the chips, themselves? meh! A largely unexciting dish which delivered fish and chips, oddly devoid of any culinary "wow"!

Mac Cheeze: Ok, this has something going for it but I'm neither sure what, or why. Essentially: it's deep fried mac cheese. There's nothing amazing about the mac cheese. I should know, I make it myself. Deep frying it is novel but again, raises nothing more than a meh. The mustard aioli is interesting, certainly, but why not add it to the cooking rather than have it as a side?

Shrimp & Grits: look, nice. The shrimp are well cooked but lacking any explosion in the mouth other than it's shrimp. The grits: The use of butter to cook the polenta made it tastier and did lend flavor to the shrimp but were my olifactory senses taken on a journey? Nope.

Don't get me started on the bloody awful TOAST ordering system they use. Go back to a pen and paper, please.

Netflix led me to believe this should be the culinary equivalent of poetry. Instead, I got a kid reciting Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star. And I'm not so sure the star...

My friend and I went here and decided to try some shrimp since we were both in the mood for seafood. We go up to order and at first we try to order some fries and before we can even finish our sentence the lady at the register cuts us off and says “We don’t have anymore fries” I’m a bit taken aback so I just apologize and order the shrimp. While she is taking our order she is half paying attention to us and half paying attention to her phone that is seemingly glued to her hand. My friend and I see the total come out to $17 and we’re both a bit nervous but say that that’s an alright price for the 8 piece jumbo fried shrimp they claimed it was on their menu.

The wait was egregious. We were sitting waiting for our food close to a half hour (yes, we timed it) and it would have been a little more understanding if they had customers to serve but glancing up at the worker to see them on their phones whilst standing around it made it hard to give them the benefit of the doubt. When we finally got our food, we were hungry and excited to see if this was worth the wait. It absolutely was not. I opened this box about the length of my hand to see seven fried shrimp ranging from medium to small. As someone who regularly cooks shrimp, I looked at these seven baby shrimp and couldn’t help but check the receipt and laugh. I genuinely felt like calling up my credit card company for fraud. The one good thing about it is I probably cannot tell you the last time I’ve laughed that hard. These shrimps were more “fried” than “shrimp”. The seven baby shrimp themselves weren’t bad flavor wise but they probably would have tasted better if they were the eight jumbo shrimp we ordered and didn’t cost $17. Absolutely not worth it unless you need a good...

i dont know what i did to rub this lady the wrong way but she was so neglectful of me & my friend. when we arrived she was pretty busy so we waited patiently and she kind of blew us off and made a weird comment about me “having too much money” when i gave her an extra $1 lol. it was very weird and sly. i order the funnel cakes as listed on the menu & she proceeds to tell me “its not funnel cakes, its a cake” when the menu CLEARLY says cakes lmao i ignore it and even give her my change as a tip on a crazy overpriced total of $18 for a funnel “cake” & drink. she makes an excuse of how the funnel cake will take longer because she had to get the ingredients downstairs. clearly a lie lol. she then takes everyone else’s orders and gives them their drink right away all while mine is missing. i nicely ask her for it and she then goes on her phone for like 3 minutes lmao. i was actually in disbelief. after she gets me my drink she gets everyone who ordered after me their orders & then begins doing anything but making my funnel cake. this woman ignored us when we asked for a fork so i could share with my friend & then turns around a bit after to let us know she so swamped working all alone. whole time nobody else had even ordered. we waited damn near FORTY MINUTES for a lame ass funnel cake. this woman was so rude & petty, i cannot believe this is the career she picked tor herself. i would say it was a bad day but some of these reviews show she clearly favors certain guests and treats others like beggars. whole time i paid for my food just like everyone else. SO unprofessional, just disappointed i didnt ask...