The best restaurants serving African food in England

The food here is very good! The people are kind. The wait was a bit long for fast food, however the employees were kind enough to offer free food and drinks since we had been waiting for some time! Very fresh and a bit expensive, but overall nice food and even nicer people.

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.

De Honourables in Gillingham is a great restaurant with great service. It is helpful to 'know' the food that one is ordering, as they serve mainly West African traditional food. But the quality of their dishes is really up to par with traditional West African quality!

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.

Excellent environment, friendly service great menu choices and really decent food and at affordable price will be coming back what lovely restaurant good food and music

On arrival, told to sit anywhere. 45 mins passed before even being asked about drinks. Had to ask for menus and seemed most things “weren’t available”. The food that “was ready” still took another 45 mins to arrive, with zero communication until then. Decent portion sizes, fairly well presented. However, the whole tray was just dropped on our table while the staff wandered off to laugh with their friends. A little while later the barmaid came to (literally) chuck some cutlery on the table, along with some dirty looks. Literally treated like we weren’t welcome. Staff mostly disappeared, and we had to follow them around to ask for the bill. The barmaid seemed to think the place/her job was beneath her. Scowling and sucking her teeth upon being asked if we could pay. Bill didn’t reflect the prices on the menu, she threw the card machine at us then wandered off again to take a phone call. Waited for a receipt to print but nothing happened (and she wasn’t around to ask for one) so checked on the card machine and there were various options for getting a receipt. Started typing my email address as it asked for, at which point she returned and got mad? For some reason? Asked what the hell I thought I was doing and when I said the machine asked me for my email for receipt she barked that I could have just asked her for one (how could I when she wasn’t there?!). I was taken aback and apologised, but she sucked her teeth again and rolled her eyes, really scowling! Like wth was her problem? Everything else could be overlooked, but that woman just ruins the place completely. Never going there again.

Been to Nile Bar a couple of times, nice Nyama Choma and grilled Tilapia. Good Karaoke nights on Wednesday. Occasionally rowdy patrons but can be dealt with by management. At times one can be thrown out at 2am.

Nunca he tenido que tirar una comida para llevar. . . literalmente lejos. Arroz frío e insípido que inicialmente se había congelado y semicongelado en el microondas, una porción de alitas de pollo que tenían menos carne que las alitas. 20 abajo y sin cena. El propietario 'Fred', que trabaja de apoyo a la salud mental en el NHS en su tiempo libre, aplica tanto cuidado a este trabajo como su arroz al microondas e insípido. Fred debería considerar su 'deber de cuidado' en ambos roles de trabajo. La comida fue / es preparada sin cuidado ni amor. Tal vez conseguir un nuevo chef o simplemente renunciar a él como un mal trabajo. Un saludo, muy decepcionado.

HOY fui allí a tomar el té y estaba pensando en cenar. para mi sorpresa del jefe yo era bastante desagradable. El jefe Mahm... actuó de manera inapropiada. Estaba tomando un té en el comedor. Entró en el comedor. No me saludó en absoluto. Pero me miró y me dijo. ¿Por qué vienes aquí? Eran clientes en la habitación. Me sentí tan avergonzado y apresurado a beber mi té e irme. Sentí una sensación de discriminación y humillación.

Although I enjoyed the food, the delivery man who delivered the order was rude. I ordered pies using the JustEat app and I wrote a note in the instruction section that the person delivering the order should should dial my flat number using the intercom because I won't be reachable on my mobile phone when the delivery arrives. The nasty delivery man didn't read the instruction and dialled my mobile number and couldn't reach me. When he finally had the sense to read the instruction and dialled my flat number via the intercom, he started yelling at me, insulting and calling me names. I felt insulted and regretted ever ordering from this restaurant. I enjoyed the pie that I bought but if this is the kind of delivery man they would keep sending to their customers, then I'm out. The delivery man is clearly frustrated and he's taking it out on this business by being rude to the customers. If he doesn't like the job, let him quit and he will be replaced by someone who is happy to do the job.

Worst and most disgusting egusi I have ever tasted, I wouldn’t feed it to a dog.

Super delicious, qualitative, quantitative and best customer service. I strongly recommend you

Disgraceful customer service. The rudest staff ive ever encountered, could they act and look more bored?! If they don’t want to be there than let someone else do their jobs. Plain rude to myself and the people I was with. Food items missing and then refused to go get the missing items we had paid for, please make that make sense. Going there for dinner is like a lesson in how not to act in customer services. What a ruined evening and meal. Save yourself the trip and chose somewhere you will be treated with dignity and kindness. AVOID !!

I went here yoday and was highly disappointed. I drove 45 mins to get here for the fried snapper I have always come for. The fish tasted stale. It was nowhere near fresh. It was rubbery with a distinct after taste. When I took the garnish off and saw the scales, I couldn't eat another bite. What happened? I know it closed for a while but this is ridiculous. I've never seen it this empty on a Friday night. Since they served our food, they haven't come back to the table, are they avoiding us????

We stopped off late on Friday night after a gig at the O2 nearby. We grabbed some chicken strips, a chicken burger, and a quesadilla, plus chips and drinks. The staff were friendly and helpful, and the food was fresh and delicious. My daughter tasted the chicken strips, sounded like she'd gone to heaven, and said "they are the gods of chicken, we are definitely going there again."