Stapleton · Soul Food · Southern
Soul food in a Stapleton Heights room that feels like someone's living room — Staten Island's best-known kitchen
Shaw-naé Dixon runs this Van Duzer Street restaurant out of a converted house, and the room genuinely feels domestic — mismatched furniture, family photographs, the sense that you have been invited rather than seated. The cooking is Southern: fried chicken with waffles, shrimp and grits, candied yams, mac and cheese that is baked rather than stirred. Dixon became a public figure on Staten Island partly through the restaurant and partly through her presence in the community around it. The Infatuation named it among the best restaurants in the city. It seats very few people, so book ahead.
Shaw-naé's House is soul food in a Stapleton Heights room that feels like someone's living room — Staten Island's best-known kitchen. Regulars order fried chicken and waffles and shrimp and grits.
Shaw-naé's House is priced at $$ — approx. $20–$40 per person.
Shaw-naé's House does not list an online reservation system. Reservations recommended; small dining room
Shaw-naé's House is at 379 Van Duzer St, Staten Island, NY 10304, in Stapleton. Street parking on Van Duzer St