Review: Sylvia's in Midtown St. Pete needs more wow factor on
the plate   It's been a long time coming. The Manhattan Casino,
once the heart of the city's African-American community, was
purchased by the city in 2001 for $395,000. The city restored it
with $2.8 million in taxpayer money. It courted well-known
African-American restaurants like Sweet Georgia Brown of Detroit
for the building's first floor, eventually settling on Sylvia's
soul food of Harlem, N.Y. Sylvia Woods, the "Queen of Soul
Food," died at age 86 last year, but her recipes for fried
chicken, peach cobbler and corn bread live on in the attractive
restaurant that opened Nov. 9.  The project had many advocates,
from Mayor Bill Foster to Woods' eldest son, Van, to Larry
Newsome and his nonprofit Urban Development Solutions (which
will follow up with a second franchised Sylvia's location in
Fort Myers). And since its opening, city officials and Midtown
boosters have kept the place hopping.  But will it be the kind
of soul food landmark that the