Bantaba Afro Caribbean Restaurant in Glasgow City

The best African Restaurant in Scotland

Very friendly staff and food cooked with due care

This is one of the best African Caribbean Restaurants in Glasgow, never let us down. The food and the service from the staff absolutely good. You order your food and they cook everything fresh from scratch, you might wait for 30 to 40 minutes but the wait is worth it if you want to eat a delicious meal from Africa.

Best food in Glasgow, I absolutely enjoyed myself.Great food and very friendly staff. We definitely be back again.

Found this place by chance as in the area. Absolutely fantastic and will definitely be back to try some more of the menu.

Absolutely love this place. Food was great!

Bought the egusi soup thinking there was going to be chunks of beef but turns out to be cow intestines/beef tripe and off cuts and it had a very strong smell

Lovely food and great value for money.

Good place to enjoy African cuisine.

very lovely place the food was amazing loads of variety in one dish and the servers were friendly and helpful. lovely calm environment great for everyone.

This is the best food I've had in Scotland. If you go to Glascoe this is a must visit.

My boyfriend and I just ate here and it was absolutely fantastic. Best food I've had since being in the UK so far, we both thoroughly enjoyed everything we had. I had the vegan coconut curry!

Amazing food!!! The wait is long so be prepared but it’s worth it because it’s so fresh and tasty 🤤

Excellent food brilliant service. 👍👍👍👍

The food was satisfying but not the same quality as whe we ate in before. There was no cutlery or serviettes sent.

The restaurant had such a friendly and welcoming environment, and the food was absolutely delicious.

Absolute amazing!! If you need a Caribbean fix, this is place to be. Everything was made fresh and served piping hot. Loved the jerk chicken with plantain and also the ackee and saltfish. They have hearty portions so opt to share if possible.

Lovely place to get a bite to eat, portion sizes do fill you up quite a bit. Authentic African cuisine and halal menu too 😁

This is a very good affordable African restaurant to go to if you are in Glasgow. The foot is great and the service is fast so the next time you are In Glasgow come to bantaba

glasgow may not have copious options for afro-caribbean food, but Bantaba more than makes up for that. easily one of the best reasons to come to the east end.

I will never buy this again. The-meats does not cook properly. It even give me allergic reaction. Totally waste of money.

Fantastic African restaurant! The customer service was excellent, and the food was fresh and delicious, served very quickly too. Restaurant is very clean with elegant decor and smells wonderful too. It's a refreshing change from other African restaurants in Glasgow. Very glad I visited!

Food took 2hrs to arrive. Don't order if you're hungry, order at lunchtime if you want it there for dinner time.

My delivery was very late and I was not a big fan of the food especially that I paid £50. I was not happy with the food at all!

Went for dinner. Loads of options. Plenty of spice. Seems authentic. Down to earth setting, nothing fancy. Food is freshly prepared as it took a while. Gambia tomato stew was great

Food was so delicious and the staff are polite

Exceptional food! Well worth a visit!

If you're looking for a break from bland UK food, Bantaba Afro Caribbean Restaurant definitely delivers on the flavor front. I tried the lamb, which was delicious, and the jerk chicken. Be warned though - that jerk chicken lives up to its name! It was incredibly spicy, even for someone like me who enjoys heat. Overall, I liked the food, but be prepared for some serious spice if you order the jerk chicken!

Amazing! Food was so flavourful. Service was great. Didn't quite know what to expect but it sounded good and we took a chance. We weren't disappointed

Definitely be back to order..

My order was delivered incomplete

Lovely service and the food was sooo good- i’m so full, the portions are big too. We even got moved to a nice big table when we had too many plates for where we were sitting. Good music too :)) We got: Curry goat, rice and pea, jollof rice, chicken, plantain, dumplings and pastry

Sumptuous Food and Drinks with Good African Beat . Charlie all are welcome..... Akwaaba!!!

The food was very nice, Restaurant is clean and spacious

didn't get the dessert in my order

The delivery guy refused to deliver it to me, saying he is not going to leave his car. Very disappointing and unprofessional. Even though I love the food, not going to order again.

The ambience great! Service, very receptive including the chefs and food Absolutely tasty and delicious. I'm glad I went in.

Peanut butter soup and jerk tofu were fantastic, and service above and beyond. Ginger juice was delicious, not like anything I've had before. Highly recommend. I notice other reviews mention issues I've also experienced ordering from here through Just Eat. I'm quite sure the issue is Just Eat. Visit the restaurant!

Bantaba is consistently amazing. Best jollof in Glasgow, their meat is really good quality, and their delivery drivers are also lovely! Their delivery always takes over an hour but we always order extra early to accommodate for this, plus we live a good distance from the restaurant so we are just happy they deliver to us!

Goat curry was lovely I messed this so much and the service was amazing 👏 🙌 definitely worth the trip don't pay attention to any of the bad comments it's definitely worth every penny

I asked the locals where is good to eat goat curry and they did not disappoint food was lovely can't fault anything worth the trip

I love this place! The food is always fresh, delicious and made with love. Everything we order is really tasty and reasonably priced. I urge everyone to try it, you won't be disappointed.

Huge selection of amazing food. There's options for any level of spice tolerances and they're all delicious.

YOH!!! Wow!!! Fantastic, most wonderful food I’ve had in a long time. I highly recommend the okra soup with fufu. Compliments to the chef. This meal has gone above and beyond! 10 out of 10 I will be back again soon

Portions are tiny, save your money and buy elsewhere please... unfair trade.

Food was delicious, proper west African food, 10/10

incredible, flavourful food. possibly the best meal i’ve had in glasgow, can’t wait to come back soon!

Food didn’t arrive at all joke

Absolutely stunning food, very decent portions sizes and all dishes beautifully flavoured and seasoned to perfection. Defo recommend the fish! Delivery was very slightly later than first suggested but notified well in advance so no issue.

The food was sensational, the flavors and the food texture was just amazing!! And the service was very good!! 6 stars for them!!!

yummy, fresh and flavoursome food - we ordered for delivery and food arrived fast and hot! loved the plaintains, chicken stew and jerk chicken and all the tasty sides too. good sized portions, looking forward to eating at the restaurant and trying more delicious food :)

I really enjoyed my time, the food was out of this world, the service was great and I will be coming back.

We tried the food as we have never tried food like this before. It was full of flavour and the portion sizes were lovely. It was good for trying the first time. Personally the wings were my favorite as I prefer spice and meat tastes instead of fish however the egusi soup was full of flavour. Happy to have tried it :)

Lovely cozy place for African meals. Food is delicious and just as I expected.

Food was amazing. Nice little place although it did take a while to arrive. When it did it was worth it and worth waiting for.

The baobab juice, plaintain and ugali was delicious! Lovely atmosphere too, would come back

Great place to enjoy African cuisine in an excellent environment.. loved it. Highly recommend this place

Fantastic food here. Very fresh and authentic.

They did phone to let me know they will be quiete late so that was nice of them. Food was amazing

Delivery time was longer due to street closure from cycling event. Food was still hot though and our meals delicious. The extra wait was worth it! Poor driver had reported almost double delivery distance/times due to diversions, undoubtedly with additional fuel costs leaving them out of pocket.

Food are absolute flavor bombs. Main courses are amazing. Definitely a great and authentic experience into African food!

Great food ans service! Will definitely be back! Delicious

Very good customer service along with delicious food.

Tried here for the first but definitely not last time, food was incredible, chicken was literally falling off the bone, oxtail was so full of flavour, we ordered a variety of things to sample the menu a bit and every single dish get devoured, zero complaints!

Would highly recommend never had African cuisine knew about the culture and people such a good variety and great staff.

The food here was soooo tasty !! Very happy to have discovered this place. Can’t wait to go back and try something else. Service was also excellent, recommend !

Supper tasty food, the patties are amazing and the jerk chicken is just spicy goodness.

After waiting over an hour for my food the food tasted horrible…I ordered suya and I got this awful gizzard mix instead puff puff was too dry and tasted like chalk. Never again! Waste of money.

OMG Absolutely Amazing The Goat Curry Was Out Of This World.....

Gorgeous food, freshly prepared. The lamb afra is delicious. I recommend you try their food, you won't have any complaints!

I got the red jollof rice, and it was delicious. To drink, I drank hibiscus, which was so refreshing and tasty. I really like coming here!

A real gem of a restaurant! Ended up here by chance on Saturday and couldn’t recommend going enough. Excellent service and the food was amazing! Red snapper & curry goat being the real show stoppers. Will definitely be back.

Ended up here by chance and honestly so glad we did. Food was excellent! Staff were so lovely. We had the moi moi, chicken wings, red snapper jerk and curry goat. Couldn’t recommend enough, will definitely be back!

Bantaba is a fantastic restaurant. The place is spacious, natural light streaming through the window and the food was just amazing! The chicken spring rolls are a lovely hot surprise, best ones I’ve ever tasted. The Chicken Yassa was delicious and the red rollof rice on the ball! The portions of the man meal were great, I couldn’t finish it and leave room for my excellent puff puff dessert with chocolate sauce, gorgeous piping hot, light crunchy pastry balls. Thank you for the excellent service and food we will definitely be back!

Really good innovative menu. We dropped in to Bantaba after attending a function this evening not really knowing what to expect. The friendly waiter guided us through the menu and so we finished with two entirely different but equally enjoyable meals. Thoroughly recommend.

Really great food have tried a lot of Caribbean places this is a great one. Great portions as well.

The driver didn't call as requested.

That was an abysmal serving of the oxtail... like, really I got 1 medium sized piece and 3 small pieces (possibly halved) with a tonne of gravy instead just to hide the fact that there was early any meat given....and the consistency of the gravy is very watery and not sauce-y at all. Food was hot but disappointed at the portion. Salad was literal just chopped lettuce - nothing to it. Rice and peas were so dry....where is the coconut in it? Think this restaurant just caters to suit a Westerner's palate more than an Africans.

I wouldn't order from this place. Food almost 2 hours late. Rice was bland, beans were mush, plantain was soggy/sloppy and bland. Just Eat claimed this was the restaurants "style" of food. Their style of food must also include chicken doused in grease. The portion sizes were (mercifully) rather small. Oh and the veg was cleary pre-frozen stuff you would get from a budget supermarket. 90% of what we ordered went in the bin. The menu looks and sounds fantastic, in reality it was way below mediocre.

Food arrived nearly 2 hours after I ordered it. Veg was clearly pre frozen and from a packet, rice was bland and beans mushy. Plantain was soggy. Chicken wings were OK, as was the oxtail but very small portions. The chicken main was swimming in oil. Nowhere near worth the wait or money. Still hungry and definitely would not recommend this place.

Fabulous food and friendly staff. Visiting from London we were looking for a genuine African/Carribbean restaurant. We weren't disappointed.

Finally goat meat on the bone! Delicious - maybe could do with a little more spice (scotch bonnet). Rice & peas are dry though, maybe give options on what rice we want for both oxtail & goat meat etc mains... Just a suggestion but overall great. I'll make an in-store visit soon.

I've eaten here several times and each time has been a delight! The food is always fresh and tasty and the staff are very welcoming. I urge everyone to give it a go, you won't be disappointed!

Tasty. Some of the meal just didn't do it for me.

I went here for the first time and I was really impressed. It's more like a Gambian restaurant but it's got lots of African delicacies. I would urge anyone and everyone to try it out and feel for themselves. And it's relatively affordable too.

The appearance is something else to me which gives me the comfortability in having the desire to be at Bantaba Afro Caribbean Restaurant present to find out for myself too. I'm coming!

The Jollof Rice tasted different than usual. I like this one better, it was tangy and full of flavours. Keep it up guys.

Never showed up marked delivered

Que delícia de lugar. Estava próximo visitando alguns pontos turísticos e vi sobre esse restaurante. Quis aproveitar para experimentar algo novo. E esperei na porta até abrir pois eram 2:45pm e só abria as 3:30 E valeu muito a pena Pois além do staff ter sido muito gentil, a comida é absurdamente gostosa. Parecida um pouco com a do Brasil, pedi um filé de peixe que acompanha arroz, salada e banana frita, mas com um sabor africano, amei provar esse prato típico. Algumas coisas são apimentadas mas eu gosto, então para meu paladar foi no ponto certo. Mas se você não gosta muito de pimenta pode pedir pra eles reduzirem. Experimentei também o suco típico de hibisco de amei. Super recomendo.

To be honest this isn’t a bad post about the restaurant. Ok the food was late, but it was still hot and delicious. Most of all the lovely delivery driver couldn’t apologise enough. Since the restaurant is very busy, I shall make sure I order earlier . Great food

Bruv there is bare any beef in the beef, how you expecting me to pay 6 pounds for 2 pounds worth of quantity

I had dinner in Bantaba as I was going to a gig at nearby St Luke’s. I didn’t know the restaurant was there, but the friendly waiter informed me it has been open 5 or 6 years. The restaurant is spotlessly clean, bright, spacious and relaxing. Afrobeats music videos gave a nice atmosphere but were not loud or intrusive. Subtle lighting and a light decor scheme makes the place look classy. I ordered a Nigerian Guinness which was ideal to have with my food. I ate Grilled Tilapia with Prawns and Kenke. The fish was delicious, fresh and served whole, in a rich sauce with fresh onions and peppers. The Kenke was satisfying and tasty. Three sauces were provided too - shito (hot fish sauce), a creamy garlic sauce and finally a super hot chilli sauce. Perfect seasoning, skilful cooking and a homely feel to the food. I loved it. I really enjoyed my visit to Bantaba and I will definitely go back. It’s great to see African food becoming more widely available in Glasgow. The emphasis is on food from Ghana, Senegal, Gambia and Ivory Coast, as well as Caribbean cuisine. The restaurant is only 100m from West Brewery, close to Glasgow Green and People’s Palace. It’s also around 5 minutes walk from Barrowlands and St Luke’s. If you don’t normally find yourself in this part of the city, make a point of visiting Bantaba next time you are at one of these big attractions. I walked there from Bridgeton rail station in roughly 5 minutes. If you like African food, go to Bantaba. If you have not tried African food, go to Bantaba. It’s definitely worth the journey beyond the city centre.

Super miejsce. Pyszna kawa, super obsługa....

Won’t order from there again, every time I order they are late by more than 30mins and when I call it always an excuse as to having to take more than one order with the driver or getting lost.

Update: unfortunately the quality has gone down since I first reviewed Bantaba. My original review is below. The last time I got takeaway from here, the chickpea curry was undercooked (chickpeas were rock hard) with watery sauce, like it was made in a rush. The goat curry had three pieces of goat in it, mostly bone. It used to fill my partner up but now he's left hungry. We called up to give them a chance to put this right, and just got a 'sorry'. No offer to refund or make the food again properly. We had to throw most of it out. Such a shame as this used to be a lovely restaurant and great to have locally, and we had ordered about 6 times by this point. Unfortunately we won't be returning due to the poor quality and service. Original review: 3rd time visiting tonight, and intend to come many more times! Food is always delicious, waiting staff really friendly, and all really good value. Good amount of vegetarian food too.

The food is amazing and friendly staff. Definitely going back

Multiple times ordered from this place and 2 hours later on delivery. The food is good though.

I enjoyed the food and the delivery was smooth. Thank you.

I wanted to take a chance on a small place I hadn’t heard of before, but I was so disappointed. Food took 2 hours to arrive, and when it did it was bland and the meat was mostly bones. Won’t be ordering from here again.

I am yet to receive my order. Had to stay awake expecting a call for the delivery of my order despite me not feeling too well which is the reason why I ordered in the first place☹️ No contact number to call the restaurant too…. Not a good experience. The food was good though