What Happens When Marcus Samuelsson Takes Harlem to London? | The New York Times

[dropcap]Marcus[/dropcap] Samuelsson lives in Harlem. He loves Harlem. He loves it so much that he decided to spread it to east London.

Mr. Samuelsson’s Red Rooster Harlem, a neighborhood restaurant known for its soul food and soul-stirring gospel brunches, has birthed a doppelgänger Red Rooster Shoreditch.

The restaurant, which opened in May, is one of several ventures placing him into new territory. Having already established restaurants in Bermuda and in Sweden, Mr. Samuelsson opened the eponymous Marcus late last year at MGM National Harbor, a casino in Maryland outside Washington, D.C., and anticipation is high for Marcus B & P set to open any day now in downtown Newark. He generated buzz this summer when he signed a lease to open a still unnamed restaurant on Brooklyn’s Greenpoint waterfront. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

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