Of all of the restaurants to open this year, few have garnered more attention than Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster. Fresh off his victory on the second season of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters, Samuelsson managed to turn that momentum into a frenzy of pre-opening hype, leaving both critics and layman alike salivating at the chance to sample his food. Located on Lenox Avenue, just down the street from the iconic Sylvia's, writers immediately dubbed Samuelsson's Red Rooster a shining beacon of hope for this historically vibrant, but economically impoverished section of Harlem. Reservations were booked weeks out in advance, white people were traveling to Harlem, hell had officially frozen over!
