This walkdown halal café also does up its grits with cheese, garlic, spinach, broccoli, or tomato, as you please; the salmon cakes are amenable to a splash of hot sauce or lovely just as they are. If not chicken and waffles, next time I may have to try the fried bologna.
Cafe 22
2309 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (135th-136th Sts.), Manhattan
212-281-8500
Closed Monday