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Charles' Southern Style Kitchen

2841 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10039
at 151st St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-926-4313 Send to Phone
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    5 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: Southern/Soul
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Hours

Wed-Sun, noon-10pm; Mon-Tue, closed

Nearby Subway Stops

B, D at 155th St.; C at 155th St.

Prices

$7.50-$12

Payment Methods

American Express, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Lunch
  • Take-Out
  • Buffet

Alcohol

  • No Alcohol

Reservations

Accepted/Not Necessary

Profile

Last time we made the trek uptown to Charles' Southern Style Kitchen, we had the great good fortune to arrive at the exact moment when the all-you-can-eat buffet was being replenished with crackling-hot fried chicken, chef-owner Charles Gabriel's claim to soul-food fame. Suffused with the kind of distinctive flavor that comes from long, slow marination—and sheathed in the sort of light, crispy skin that indicates expert frying—this bird alone is worth the cover charge, which you pay up front, as if you were buying a movie ticket. Inside, a friendly waitress offers you individually wrapped, beyond-moist cornbread and a plastic glass of sweet lemonade, and then you're free to repeatedly pillage the steam table for beefy oxtails; smothered steak; okra succotash; fine macaroni and cheese; candied yams; first-rate collard greens tinged with turkey so smoky we swore we tasted pork; and barbecued ribs in a splendid sweet sauce that gives the fried chicken a run for your well-spent money. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

Buffet

Lunch, $11.97; dinner, $14.11

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Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10		 Write Your Own Review
80% Would you go back?
100% Would you take a date?
75% Would you take kids?
50% Would you go on business?
100% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 9.8
Service: 9.8
Décor: 8.0
Value: 10.0

RESTAURANT IS CLOSED

frenetica from 11215 | Posted on 6/21/09

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: (NA)
Service: (NA)
Décor: (NA)
Value: (NA)

That says it all, really.

Wonderful

shatasty from 28027 | Posted on 11/4/07

Overall Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 9
Service: 9
Décor: 8
Value: 10

If you want great home made cooking this is the place to be. Charles and his wonderful staff give you wonderful service in a home like setting. I haven't been in about a year and I'm telling you its been a hard one. The next time I come back to the city this place is one of my first stops. Best price and Best food.... I hope this place goes even more places.

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