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    Kitchen 216

    3.5 (51 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Collard greens, Cabbage, Fried chicken, Mac And Cheese, cornbread
    Muriel D.

    I found out about this place this past month and have already been back with friends for more. The food is always delicious. The chicken is juicy and fried to perfection, mac and cheese is solid, and the candied yams are top tier. I wouldn't recommend the cornbread, thought it was dry the last time I got it. Other than that, the service and the food are all top notch. They play lively music inside and the seating is cozy. Def recommend trying the pineapple tea

    Disgusting chicken wings
    Malik H.

    Not good I don't like "blackened" over fried dried out looking chicken wings that are supposed to be "soulfully" golden brown and fresh looking I returned my entire meal cabbage and Mac and cheese as well I didn't trust it after looking at those wings. Not a happy camper WONT RETURN

    Lamb chops with mashed potatoes and grilled chicken with Mac n cheese. Both with greens
    Satonya B.

    OMG this food is so good. I got the lemon pepper lamb chops and my aunt got the grilled chicken. I had to stop eating to write this review. She stopped eating to get some cornbread but I didn't want to stop because I didn't want my food to get cold. I'm writing this with my one clean hand. It's expensive but worth it. They don't take cash. The only thing I didn't like is the cornbread is like cake. I want real cornbread.

    Nischinth S.

    Every time I'm here to charge the electric car, I'm looking at this spot and I choose grocery shopping instead. Eventually today was the day, I decided to walk to this spot and give them a try with the weather outside being perfect. Before I walked in, I thought this was a full service restaurant as I looked at the menu and the prices, however my opinion changed to a fastfood restaurant to a self service restaurant. We had fried catfish with seafood salad, grilled chicken breast with light jerk sauce and Mac and cheese. The catfish was perfectly fried golden brown, light and crunchy. The chicken was flavorful and tender. The sides were great, the owner did let us try some yams. The staff was friendly and loved the plants in the store. I personally would have liked the chickens jerk sauce a lil more spicy. We spoke to the people at the adjacent table and they loved their food too. The most popular dishes are lamb chops and turkey. I don't either, but will come back again with someone who eats it....aka my brother who loves lamb and turkey. YELP CHECK-IN GETS YOU A FREE DRINK. HOMEMADE GINGER SOMETHING...TASTED LIKE SUGARCANE JUICE AND WAS AMAZING. Collard greens and cabbage also comes highly recommended. I'll definitely be here again, make sure you give it a try, and you won't be disappointed.

    Mac and cheese
    Nishanth D.

    At first it seemed like a fast food chain. It took a few minutes to get our food not too long though. But everything was really fresh. Mac and cheese was quite creamy. Grilled chicken was quite flavourful. Fried catfish was really tender, and light with a good crunch. The owner/chef came in and had a good chat enquiring about our feedback. She recommended trying turkey wings and lamb chops. When I asked her about the candied yam, she actually gave us a sample to try which was really good as well. The pineapple ginger tea was amazing. Must try drink. Quite unique.

    Lamb chops meal
    Jen C.

    Definitely not a sit down location! Order for pick up or to go! The food is deliciously amazing! They do not accept cash! So best bet is to go to the kiosks to pay or order online. I'm not from around here but this food smacks!!! I will definitely recommend and whenever I'm around I will pick up a plate and put people on. Definitely the food is made with love!!!

    Turkey wings, Mac and cheese and candied yams
    Catherine S.

    This spot is amazing! The concept is brilliant... excellent soul food in the fast food lane... genius! The food was soooo delish!! We will stop in every year we travel with our basketball team!! Please franchise and come to Stamford CT.

    I used to like coming here but lately they've been slacking look at how my cabbage looks it looks all slimy and disgusting come on now

    BBQ Baked Chicken, Mac And Cheese, Mashed potatoes, and cornbread
    Michael E.

    Couldn't believe they were opened on Easter Sunday and couldn't be more grateful. Love this place for comfort supper. Had BBQ chicken, Mac, potatoes, and cornbread. Staff are always quick and accommodating with online ordering and pickup available.

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    David D.

    The lambchops were perfect. 85 characters to post ok. So filling in space. Once again I really enjoyed the Lamb chops

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    I waited for over an hour to get old salty food. I'm so disappointed and I won't be back.

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    This evening was my first time trying their food, and the results were, at best, mixed…read more As I don't drive, and it was a bit too dark out to take the bus there, I got delivery. I wanted to try a representative sampling of their food, so I ordered a chicken parmigiana wedge, a large cheese pizza, and a 2 liter bottle of diet Coke. Out of the three items, the best part of the meal was - the diet Coke. (If you've tried getting Cocla Cola products from Albany restaurants and are a Coke fan, you understand this.) The pizza was pleasant, but decidedly average. The crust was not crisp, though reheating should help with that, which I shall find out with the leftovers. There was more crust than I normally like relative to the cheese, but it wasn't overly unbalanced. It was just a little too much on the crust side. The wedge, in conrast, had so much sauce I could not taste the chciken at all, and had trouble even finding the chicken on the sandwich. When I did, the chicken had minimal flavor. a good chicken parmiagiana should actually let you taste chicken with crisp breading, not soggy breding hidden in enough sauce to cause digestive distress. And yes, I did expereince digestive distress. I might buy their pizza again, but Albany's a decent size city, and there's lots of competition. But I won't be trying the wedge for quite a whle.

    Don't skip this place for pizza. It's one of the better upstate NY pizza places for sure. As pizza…read moresnob from NYC, I enjoyed the standard cheese pizza far more than I expected to. Also worth trying is the lamb over rice. Next time, I'd get it with extra sauce as it was a bit dry. However, I prefer this to Aria down the street - this doesn't have that flavor I dislike in the food from that other place that I've yet to figure out. I don't know if they have other options to add toppings, but maybe it's something to explore. It was just rice and lamb with a bit of green salad. Not other than advertised so no complaints there. The mozzerella sticks were good. Melba sauce was provided (as it should be everywhere in the universe). I'm torn on the eggplant parm dinner. It seemed like the eggplant rounds were cut up and mixed into the ziti or they were tender enough that they just disintegrated into the ziti. I'm certainly into having pasta with eggplant parm but also I want to control that ratio. This made it difficult to find and fork the eggplant amidst the ziti. It was also difficult to find eggplant pieces where the eggplant and breading were still unified. The eggplant was pretty good though. The calzone is not small. It was a bit light on ricotta compared to other calzones but there was no lack of cheese overall. It was more of a folded over white pizza than a calzone. That is, I expected it to be a puffy pocket but it was a flat semi circle with big slits on top. Not bad. Maybe I'd be in the mood for that style of calzone again in the future. I'd skip the buffalo chicken wrap next time. It was relatively dry, not spicy, and not as substantial as I was expecting. Beyond that, it had a grill flavor to it that was a bit out of place and interfered with the expected flavor. They seemed to put it on the grill to seal it closed in the middle but they keep the ends open so you have to hold the end closed while eating it to prevent bits from falling out. It was more of a somewhat buffalo flavored chicken roll-up than a buffalo chicken wrap. Surprisingly good fries. Also, great peanut butter pie. Note that the pepperoni is beef. It is very appreciated that it is clearly marked as beef so people can decide if that's a thing they want more or less than traditional pepperoni. Far too few other places think it's important to note this!

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    I drove up from NYC just to have brunch with a dear friend. Now in all fairness while I enjoyed…read morethis restaurant it was just that much better because of the great company I was with. The space is large and spacious. We went for brunch and it appeared to be family friendly. It's a nice place to go after church or to catch up yet you can still have an afternoon cocktail. I ordered the biscuit and gravy and my friend had shrimp and grits. In addtion we had beignets and candied bacon for the table. The beignets are not New Orleans good but would never expect anything this good in Albany. My biscuit and gravy were good. The gravy was savory and the biscuit tasted homemade. It was a little to thick for the amount of gravy. However I would love to try the biscuit by itself with another entrée. The shrimp and grits are not Southern style they are New Orleans style. My friend felt they were ok. Now the candied bacon was a hard NO. It was heavily salted. You could not eat do to the level of salt. I am not sure if this was a fluck or how it's prepared. Unfortunately we returned to the kitchen and I never return anything even if I don't like it. However, our server Alexa was very helpful and provided overall good service. If you are close by you should check out. True rating 3.5

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