New York's reputation for inferior barbecue improved instantly when John Stage opened the third outpost of his Syracuse-based joint in 2004, installing it in a riverside meatpacking warehouse in Harlem. Here, the city's friendliest waitstaff serves piled-high plates of pulled pork, ribs, chicken, brisket, and knockout wings; a well-stocked bar corrals the Columbia students.
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