The best restaurants serving African food in London

Gracias por ser un excelente ejemplo de lo que debería ser un restaurante ghanés, a diferencia de Gina's / Bloomingscent café. La calidez del personal, especialmente Irene, es inigualable! He cenado y pedido comida para llevar varias veces a través de Uber Eats, y siempre son rápidos y eficientes. El servicio al cliente es excepcional, y el personal es increíblemente amable. Mi visita más reciente fue el jueves 6 de marzo de 2025, pero he estado varias veces, incluyendo visitas con mis colegas de trabajo. A pesar del lugar a menudo ocupado, el servicio siempre ha sido increíble, lo cual es impresionante. Definitivamente te has ganado un cliente fiel en mí, especialmente ahora que eres local. Recomiendo encarecidamente el pastel de carne, bofrot, kebab, tilapia y tsofi (cola de pavo). El fufu y la sopa de carne también son deliciosos, y mis amigos no pueden tomar suficiente del banku y el jollof. Nos encantó la estación donde te puedes lavar las manos, ya que esto es mucho mejor que ir a los baños. Si me sigues en las redes sociales, probablemente hayas visto videos de su comida, siempre fresca, porciones generosas y una fantástica relación calidad-precio. ¡Siempre estoy emocionado de gastar mi dinero aquí!

So flavoursome. Their soup just like home. Tasty nutritious and wholesome. Very good value for money. My new favourite

The ones who know about the waiting time at habesha restaurants understand good things comes to those who wait. Lovely food & very nice staff. I really enjoyed the food. And all the meat options made me very happy! Authentic ethiopian and eritrean food.

I visited a lovely Lebanese restaurant and had a great experience. The seating area is really nice, especially since the restaurant is right by a canal. You can choose to sit indoors or outside depending on the weather. The outdoor area has a beautiful view, smoking is allowed, and they offer shisha (although I didn’t try it). I had the kibbeh, which was delicious—crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The service was good, and the staff member who served us, Abboud, was very kind and attentive. The overall atmosphere was very relaxing. I’ll definitely go back again!

I placed an order for pick up at the Hendon restaurant on the 18th of April 2025 with Ranadeer. I collected my order only to find that one of the items was wrong when I got home. I called the restaurant back and was told I will be issued a refund of £22 for the wrong item. I was very upset as the wrong item was inedible for myself and my family and I had to give it out so my family not only had less to eat but wasted money. For over three weeks now, I have been chasing the restaurant for the promised refund. The refund was meant to have arrived since 2 weeks ago but here I am weeks later still awaiting and chasing for the refund. Ranadeer and all the other staff I’ve spoken to at the Hendon branch have been giving me the run around and dodging. They claim a Mr James is the manager but never let me speak to him or will say he will call back but never any call back. I find this behaviour disgusting and unacceptable. This is why globally, they say Nigerians are scammers since this is the type of behaviour displayed even when conducting business!!! My birthday is coming up in June and I was going ordering food (ordered over £100 worth of food) to test and potentially book the venue for a private event but this entire situation has really upset me to the point that I will rather go to another Nigerian restaurant. After all, Wazobia and Mama Calabar are also in the same vicinity as this restaurant in Hendon so I will definitely be taking my business elsewhere. Avoid this place and their shady business practices!!!!

Cucharas. Cucharas. Cucharas... qué decir de las cucharas... Cuando fui a este estimado establecimiento no estaba sentado por 1 servidor sino 48 servidores, ¿excesivo verdad? NO! Cucharas se esfuerza por la mejor experiencia del cliente Saludos amables Yo

We visited the place with family and friends for a meal out. There is building work is ongoing in the surroundings. The location is not the best because it is within the Deptford market area but easily accessible by buses and the Deptford train station is in front of the restaurant. Service was quick and food was really nice – we ordered varieties of Nigerian food. Food price was on average between £5 - £15 per meal. Drinks are mid-range in price. Staff are professionally nice, polite and friendly. I will definitely visit again.

Despite the reviews, I went hopeful as the images of the food looked very appealing. 84 West is in the wrong location!! It ought to be situated in KNIGHTSBRIDGE due to the outlandish prices. The music is too loud to have a conversation If you want to sit upstairs it’s a minimum £1000 spend, (of course it was largely EMPTY!! When the food arrived, nicely presented, it tasted DISGUSTING and I picked at it before giving up… my friends also agreed that the taste was inedible…. 🤢 Won’t be long before this closes as I’m sure food inspectors will be paying this establishment a visit. I managed to check the food rating of this place , it was no surprise that it was rated 0- requiring URGENT ATTENTION‼️‼️ Check for yourself……

Very rude staff and owner ordered food and it tasted like it was stored for a week. Their food isn't fresh and rather than fix thier service they would rather call customers to try and get them to accept the stale good they served

The courier was friendly and. Helpful

Pido de ellos regularmente cada vez que estoy de vuelta en el noroeste de Londres. No está mal el servicio, aunque creo que cuando se pone ocupado la comida tarda más de lo deseado.

Absolutely terrible! - Poor reception - Poor presentation of food, cheapest cutlery and crockery - Awful toilet with rusty and broken accessories - Smelly atmosphere with no proper ventilation - A total rip-off Such a disappointment for a business that has been around for so many years.

Asistí con amigos en la iglesia, su servicio fue excelente y la comida fue cocinada a la perfección. Era una relación calidad-precio y la comida servida era más de lo que pagamos, y todos terminamos yendo a casa con una comida para llevar. No hubiéramos pedido más, el personal era educado y se enorgulleció de la calificación de la comida y los servicios prestados. Por favor, mantenga su estándar. Sin duda volveré a visitar la Suya Presidencial de nuevo. 👍❤️

Been here a few times now, on a friend’s recommendation, and have always enjoyed my meal. Staff have always been friendly and professional. Looking forward to going back.

made the mistake of following the guardian's review of this african restaurant. i always follow their culinary reviews of london's restaurants. nowhere else, to me london is the whole country (been here 20 years). i am sad to announce that the meal was a disaster! to hope that in the middle of knighsbridge a restaurant this poor could survive longer than months is a pious dream. and it has, i believe they opened in 2022. i firstly booked via opentable. only availability was at 2pm. i later called and moved it to 1pm. go figure. when we got there, us two, place was deserted. nobody, no tables taken. a nigerian waitress welcomed us in tentative english and took our coats. a harbinger of the quality of the restaurant was that she hunged the two coats behind the till's chair! i mean, if this is their cloak room then we could have simply kept them behind our own chairs. we were shown to a table and noticed straight away there were no africans in sight, all staff but one were asians. another bad sign. a nigerian restaurant served by asians?? again, we noticed that most table were prepared with the cutlery wrongly set, very often seen in african settings where staff simply has no clue on how to set it. they have no idea forks go on the left and knivs on the right! none. we then ordered: fried yam ayamase ofada stew butterfly grill seabass acqua panna btl nigerian fanta a plate with two "puff puff" came as appetisers. admittedly very good. ayamase, we asked with white rice. yes of course, they said. it came with brown rice. seabass was ok, but please remember seabass does not exist in nigerian cuisine! drinks were hard to get it wrong, nigerian fanta is not proper fanta. a totally different drink and taste but it's ok, wife tells me west africans love different sodas. all in all a disaster. we spent £70. let me finish by saying that in this postcode, where patrons are used to an extremely high level of service and quality a place like this hopefully will NOT survive and it makes you wonder how could they, no patrons on a tuesday's lunch?? no, something is very wrong here.