'Chopped' champ a soul food specialist
theGRIO REPORT - Chef Wayne Lyons is best known for his soul food creations and winning Food Network’s Chopped Season 7...
Olive Garden, Red Lobster opposition to Obamacare backfires
NEW YORK (AP) - After new ad campaigns touting the quality of its food failed to spark sales, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster is retooling its strategy to attract diners with more promotional deals...
Harlem residents reflect on beloved soul food queen Sylvia Woods
NEW YORK (AP) - Sylvia Woods, the founder of the famed Harlem soul food restaurant that bears her name, was remembered Tuesday by her patrons and friends as a warm and welcoming trailblazer who turned her small eatery into a bustling city gem...
Sylvia Woods, of Harlem's Sylvia's Soul Food, is dead at 86
NEW YORK - The founder of the famed Harlem soul food restaurant Sylvia's has died. Sylvia Woods was 86...
Family allegedly held captive over tip refusal
A group of family and friends were locked inside a restaurant after refusing to tip for questionable customer service...
Kanye and Kim hold hands at NYC restaurant opening
Kayne West and Kim Kardashian stepped out on the town last night, along with the entire Kardashian clan, for the opening of Kourtney's boyfriend Scott Disick's restaurant RYU,..
Burger King pulls Mary J. Blige commercial
theGRIO REPORT - The web is buzzing about a recent Burger King 'chicken wrap' commercial, which features R&B icon Mary J. Blige belting out the ingredients to one of the fast food chain's new menu items...
Harlem's Red Rooster: A rare diversity in dining
NEW YORK (AP) - It's a balmy March evening just before the official arrival of spring, and a few diners are already happily venturing to the small tables outside Red Rooster...
Flavor Flav opening Vegas fried chicken restaurant
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Entertainer and reality TV star Flavor Flav is returning to Las Vegas to open a fried chicken and soul food takeout restaurant...
NYC councilwoman calls to boycott Harlem restaurant Cedric
According to the email, five black women were in the middle of a meal and cocktails at Cedric when Lecendre asked them to move to make way for a party of four customers, who were white and whom he said had reservations...
