Melba's Restaurant
New York, NY
- Address
- 300 W 114th St, New York, NY, 10026
- Phone
- (212) 864-7777
- Website
- melbasrestaurant.com
About Melba's Restaurant
Melba's Restaurant opened its doors in Harlem, New York, in 2005 and has come to be regarded as a premier comfort food destination in New York City. The restaurant is the vision of founder Melba Wilson, who set out to create an exquisite yet comfortable dining experience rooted in the community that raised her. Melba's built its reputation on the combination of great food and remarkable service, aiming to make every visit feel like coming home for dinner. Guests often find Melba herself greeting diners with hugs and her trademark smile, checking in on how she can enhance their experience. The restaurant is known for elevated Southern comfort food served in a warm, welcoming setting in the heart of Harlem, and it has become a fixture of the neighborhood's dining scene, drawing both longtime Harlem residents and visitors from across the city who come for the combination of hospitality and cooking rooted in Melba Wilson's decades of restaurant experience. Melba's approach centers on the idea that when great food is paired with attentive, warm service, a restaurant becomes more than a place to eat — it becomes a destination that guests return to again and again, much like coming home.
Melba's Restaurant was the vision of founder Melba Wilson, who was born, raised, and, as she describes it, buttered in Harlem. Melba knew she wanted to stay close to home so she could nurture and provide an exquisite yet comfortable dining experience to the community that raised her. As a young adult, she worked at Sylvia's, Rosa Mexicano, and Windows on the World, where she saw firsthand what it took to own and operate a successful restaurant. That experience taught her that diners have endless choices about where to eat, and that combining great food with remarkable service is what turns a restaurant into a destination that patrons come to regard as home. Melba opened her namesake restaurant in 2005, building a standard of excellence around exceptional customer service paired with quality comfort food. On any given day, she can be found greeting guests with hugs and her trademark smile, asking whether there is anything she can do to enhance their dining experience, carrying forward the philosophy that dining at Melba's should feel like coming home for dinner, whenever you're away from home. That personal touch, more than two decades after opening, remains central to how Melba's describes itself to this day.
Services
- Arnold Palmer — $5.00
- Assorted Sodas — $5.00
- Chaos Theory Proprietary — $15.00
- Chardonnay
- Country Catfish — $12.00
- Harlem Brewing Company Pale Ale — $10.00
- Heineken — $10.00
- House of Brown
- Lemonade — $5.00
- Melba’s Canned Margarita — $9.00
- Melba’s HIT – Harlem Iced Tea
- Melba's Spiced Pulled Chicken — $9.00
- Red Stripe — $10.00
- Rose
- Rum Punch
- Sexy Sangria
- Signature Fried Chicken — $9.00
- Strawberry Henney
- Sweet Tea — $5.00
- Zinfandel
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