Like many of the fun Les Dames d’Escoffier conference events, our New York Harlem fund-raiser was sold out. I decided to take a group who hadn’t booked in time to Harlem for brunch at Dame Yvette Leeper Bueno’s Vinateria, where I’d dined before. (A Dame is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier.)

Brunch entrees include a mimosa, bloody Mary or complimentary coffee or tea.

Our group tried their delicious carbonara ($21) with guanciale, egg and Grana Padano; the autumn salad ($15) with roasted squash, carrots, roasted red pepper, apples, candied walnuts, cranberries, feta and chicory; and the house-cured smoked salmon eggs benedict; and the Applewood smoked bacon cheeseburger with fries ($21).

As a huevos rancheros fan, I ordered that, as did one Texas Dame. Their version even got Kudos from the Texan! It had eggs (I asked for mine poached) with black beans, corn tortillas with pico de gallo, guajillo salsa, crème fraîche and ricotta salata. I recommend.

Great atmosphere and good food.

I recommend a trip to Harlem; tell Yvette I sent you!

Vinateria
Harlem
211 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, NY 10026
(212) 662-8462
vinaterianyc.com/