{"id":186321,"date":"2015-05-31T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=186321"},"modified":"2015-05-31T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:09:40","slug":"new-york-african-restaurant-week-honours-jj-johnson-of-the-cecil-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=186321","title":{"rendered":"New York African Restaurant Week Honours JJ Johnson of The Cecil Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyarw.com\">New York African Restaurant Week 2015<\/a> kicks off today for two-weeks (May 31 &#8211; June 14).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Visit the site for full-list of participating restaurants and prix fixe deals at <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyarw.com\">www.nyarw.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Edible Bazaar Benefit 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tuesday, June 9, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6:30 &#8211; 10:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TAJ II<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">48 W. 21st Street (bet. 5-6th Avenue)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New York, NY 10010<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The Edible Bazaar Benefit&#8221; is the signature event of New York African Restaurant Week (NYARW).<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second annual celebration of African culture and cuisine with dining, dancing and drinks honoring:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2015 Chef of the Year:<strong> JJ Johnson, The Cecil Harlem<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2015 Restaurateurs of the Year:<strong> Sivan baron Ouedraogo &amp; Abdel Kader Ouedraogo, Silvana\/Shrine\/Yatenga<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2015 Community Leader of the Year:<strong> Yaf Boye-Flaegel, ASB Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Surprise MC! Curated cuisine and cocktails! Live Auction! Surprise music performances! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tickets: $40<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(a generous percentage of all ticket sales and auction will be donated to ASB Foundation help the disadvantaged families of the village of Koutal, Senegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For tickets or more information: <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beuevents.com\/\"><strong>www.beuevents.com<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For press inquires: Wilson Marshall PR + Special Events, <strong>wilsonmarshallnyc<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Edible Bazaar Benefit 2015 sponsored by Edible Magazine &amp; UBER<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York African Restaurant Week 2015 kicks off today for two-weeks (May 31 &#8211; June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":186323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[586,12756786],"tags":[124717447,124717446,124717448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186324,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186321\/revisions\/186324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}