Can’t Stomach Thanksgiving with Your Family? Spend It at These Family-Owned Restaurants Instead
Mitchell’s Soul Food: With cafeteria-style booths, a few stools at the counter and an old T.V mounted on the wall, this Prospect Heights restaurant is entirely no-frills. In fact, to get to the bathroom, you’ll have to sneak behind the counter, through a pair of swinging doors, and past a pair of crocheting ladies and small children, playing with dolls and trucks on the floor. The draw is undoubtedly Johnsie Mitchell’s cooking… fried catfish, smothered chicken, braised oxtails, collard greens and black-eyed peas, piled high alongside crumbly cornbread on dented plastic plates.
617 Vanderbilt Ave., (718) 789-3212