15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys and her two children dined at The Bowery Hotel’s ground-floor restaurant Gemma in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old R&B songstress sported a green varsity jacket emblazoned with the Norfolk State Spartans logo, dark denim skinny jeans, and $135 Timberland steel-toe work boots.
A bearded bodyguard towered over Alicia as she and her sons – Egypt Daoud Dean, 11; and Genesis Ali Dean, 7 – ran to the waiting van.
Keys (born Aguello-Cook) wore a blue face mask and gold-rimmed sunglasses with her raven locks coiffed into an elaborately braided top bun.
The upscale trattoria offers Italian dinner dishes ranging in price between $15 and $42.
Little Egypt and Genesis likely appreciated their dinners a bit more after helping serve sloppy Joes and salads to homeless folks at The Bowery Mission.
The native New Yorker and her boys volunteered alongside her husband of 11 years – Grammy winner Swizz Beatz – as well as his 13-year-old daughter Nicole Dean.
The 43-year-old rapper (born Kasseem Dean) famously fathered Nicole with Russian singer Jahna Sebastian while still married to his first wife, Boston singer Mashonda Tifrere.
Alicia and Swizz’s children were technically not allowed to be at the emergency shelter because they require all volunteers to be 18 years of age or older: ‘No exceptions.’
The Bowery Mission website also states ‘photography is not allowed in the kitchen at 227 Bowery,’ so the married couple broke two rules while helping serve meals.
‘The Dean family would like to give thanks to @bowerymission for all the amazing work they do everyday,’ Beatz captioned his slideshow.
‘NYC with love. Please reach out to them so you and your family can do some great service for the people.’
Missing from the Big Apple family outing was the Echo rapper’s two eldest sons – Prince Nasir aka Note Marcado, 21; and Kasseem, Jr., 15 – with Nichole Levy and ex-wife Mashonda Tifrere.
‘I think [my sons] think I’m cool, but I do have to remind them. I’m like, “Do you know who your mother is?”‘ Keys told guest host Brandi Carlile on The Ellen DeGeneres Show last Friday.
‘”Like, do you know how many people want to spend time with me? What do you mean you don’t want to be with me right now?” So sometimes I have to remind them a little bit.
‘Or how about when I’m singing to them at night and suddenly they’re like, “Maaaaa!” What? What? You don’t want me to sing? What’s happening? But they’re so sweet. And Egypt is like playing piano now.’