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    Food ($12.99, that we didn't order) served on top of the dirty table.
    John N.

    Dirty, ordered about $30 worth of food, got charged $70 There's a lot of things to complain about but I'll focus on the two biggest problems, the dirtiness and overcharging. We were seated at a booth that still had napkins and straw covers from a previous customer, along with some disgustingly dirty menus. I thought the waiter/owner would offer to clean it up quickly, but he started bringing out what seemed to be samples of food (the first were tiny dishes of stews) and setting them on top of the mess (see picture), even before we had a chance to examine the menu and order. Which leads to the big problem- he kept bringing little plates of food out and insisted we try them and tell him what we thought- I thought this was leading to a suggestion of what we should order, but it turns out he charged us for all these things that we didn't order! Fufu, $5.99, Dundu $14.99 and Dodo Stir Fry $12.99. (We did order Jollof with "2 [rock hard dried out] pieces" of beef, and Eforiro). That brought our total bill for lunch up to $70! When I complained to him that we didn't order these things, he said "I had to bring them out because she [pointing to my wife] is vegetarian", which makes no sense, since we told him when we sat down that she was probably going to order the vegetable stew. He refused to take them off the bill. The Dundu (fried plantain) and Dodo (fried yams) stir fry were nothing special by the way. No seasoning and kind of cold like they had come out of the fryer a while ago. (That's the $12.99 Dodo stir fry in the photo, sitting on top of the dirty menus).

    Fufu, Egusi stew, Spinach stew
    Brenda Y.

    owner is very nice and friendly, restaurant is nicely decorated and has a homey feel, food was on the pricier side and a bit salty for my taste

    Egusi with Fufu

    The food was great! Meat was super tasty The service was great they were very kind The restaurant wasn't super busy so it didn't take long to get the food

    Dirty cup.

    The silverware and platters were dirty. Almost an hour wait for food, forgot a few peoples orders after everyone else received their food, and told someone AN HOUR LATER to order something else because it would take too long for the person to receive.‍ Food also was either cold or seemed like it was old. Spent almost 2 hours waiting for food/waiting to be seated, and eating.

    Straight gas
    Pete S.

    Just about anything you get here food wise is absolutely wonderful. In this attached photo, I told the server to just bring out whatever since I enjoy all African cuisine. Ambiance is good, everyone is friendly and slight music in the background. Good vibes only Service could be quicker but you just gotta enjoy it

    Fufu   Egusi Goat Pepper Soup
    Jesica N.

    The fufu and egusi were delicious. The egusi was very flavorful and the fufu paired well with it. However, the goat pepper stew was unimpressive. It was quite salty, for $15, the portion was also very small. There was a lot of fat attached to the small pieces of minimal meat provided. This place is very overpriced most likely due to limited Nigerian restaurant options in the area. I wanted to order jollof rice but saw it was $15. Egusi and fufu 10/10 Goat pepper stew 2/10

    Meat pie (outside)
    Aaron W.

    I'm always excited to try a local place with new cuisine, but a recent dinner here with my wife could have been better. First off, service was not good. Our server wasn't really paying attention to us and seemed to be on her phone behind the front counter most of the time. About 20 minutes after ordering, I went over to ask her if we would be getting our appetizer before our main dishes. It seemed like she had forgotten, she said she would go check, and turns out they had been ready for a while. The food was a mixed bag. The menu has no details and, like most white people, we had no idea what the names of each dish meant. I know, it's our own fault, but we could really have used some explanation! And our server just didn't seem interested in talking to us. Without any help, we were kind of playing the lottery. My wife's dish (Egusi - melon stew) actually ended up tasting delicious! It had tender pieces of bone-in chicken in a thick, very rich stew. But my dish (Ila Asepo - okra stew) had beef tripe. If you haven't heard of it, Google it, but I hadn't and let's just say I didn't really like it. Another server--a younger guy--explained what it was and kind of poked fun at me for not liking it because it's not something Americans eat. Very fair! But I still would have preferred to order something else. Maybe things would have been better if he had been our server from the start. We also got a few pieces of beef as a side dish. They were pretty good but very chewy and came in a mildly spicy red sauce (although it was very oily). For an appetizer, we got a meat pie and a chicken pie. Both were wrapped in rich, delicious dough. Unfortunately, there was about a teaspoon of filling in each - not very substantial. Finally, the cassava was a good starch for mixing with the stew. Fufu is a smooth cassava (like mashed potatoes) and Eba is flaky cassava (the brown rice of cassava).

    Chicken Pie, Scoth Egg, Fufu, Puff-Puff
    Jason F.

    I stopped by here yesterday with my wife for dinner. We had found African cuisine on Yelp after seeing groundnut stew being made on a number of different cooking competition shows recently. Even though they didn't currently have it, at least not that I could find, we still decided to give it a try. I ended up placing my order online for a future time and chose 5:15 PM. We arrived to the restaurant right around that time and our food was ready. All told I spent maybe 1 minute inside the restaurant and so I didn't get a good look around. For dinner on this evening my wife and I decided to split a number of different items. So we went with 1 Scotch Egg, 1 Chicken Pie, 1 Joll of Rice, 2 Puff-Puff, 1 Fufu and 1 Banga. I have to admit that I know very little about African cuisine and so I couldn't tell you if this was authentic or not and so I have to trust the other reviews saying that it is. So I can only tell you what I thought of it and what it tasted like for me. We first started off with the chicken pie and scotch egg. Both were good and the more I ate of the scotch egg the more I liked the sausage while the chicken pie reminded me of a comforting pot pie. Up next was the banga which reminded me of spicy beef jerky stew. It had a really good spicy kick to it and it was close to the point where I thought it was too much and I can normally deal with 9 or 10 spice levels at most restaurants. Some of the meats in it reminded me of pot roast while others I couldn't identify. My wife wasn't a big fan of it due to an herb that she didn't like and so I ended up eating most of it myself over two of the fufu. Speaking of the fufu, it came wrapped in seran wrap and reminded me of mashed potatoes. It worked well with the banga as it cut the spice a bit and added a starch. Up next was the joll of rice which wasn't for me. I personally wasn't a big fan of the spices in it which seemed somewhat plain but my wife didn't seem to mind it and ate most of it. The beef that came with it had a decent flavor but was quite tough though. Last was the puff-puff which had a decent sweet taste to it. The texture on it was weird as it was dense and oily and while I didn't mind it, my wife didn't enjoy it. The bottom line for me is that we probably won't be back again in the future. This has nothing to do with the restaurant and food itself, it's just not to my wife or my palate. What I can say is that I am happy that I tried it and almost wish we had eaten in so that I could get some recommendations from the staff as well as understand a bit more about the food.

    Page 1 of menu Appetizers Breakfast Beverages
    Margaret G.

    Ooooh, my. I've been waiting to try this place and finally my partner and I cracked open the menu. Immediately we were overwhelmed and not sure what to get. I tried to reference the previous reviews , but there were only 6. We ordered over the phone and said we wanted these items, according to the menu names/-descriptions: -Fufu (smooth cassava meal) -Eko tutu (Agidi) -Moimoi (spicy cooked bean cake sandwich) -Chicken pie (Dough stuffed with ground beef, potato, peas, carrot & spices) -Groundnut stew (Peanut stew) -Two Scotch eggs (Fried boiled egg coated with sausage) -Egusi stew (Melon soup) The person took our order on the phone and said pick up in 30 min. This was a Friday night, around 8pm. They were out of FISH ROLLS and only had one chicken pie left. The FUFU - $4.99 was wrapped in saran-wrap, about the side of a big fist and was like a doughy, potatoey lump. I took the lump and pulled bite-sized pieces off it and dipped it into the stews (Egusi and Groundnut) to cut the spice and flavor the starchy carb. This is how you eat fufu, you dip it into the stews you order. One order of fufu was more than enough for two people's stews. We had some leftover. EKO TUTU - $2, was very similar to the fufu in that it's starchy, but had more of a very slight tanginess to it. The texture almost like gelatin with a slight grit to it. It's like cornstarchy cold pudding. I liked the fufu more for a starchy carb taste, but the texture of the Eko tutu was easier to cut with a fork to eat. It's often eaten with a spicy condiment, which I'll have to try next time. Apparently, this is more often eaten as a breakfast item. I wouldn't order it again now, knowing this. MOIMOI - $3.99 Moimoi is a Nigerian steamed bean pudding cake made with beans, onions, red peppers. YUM! This was so delicious and spicy! Slightly seafoody in flavor. I loved it! EGUSI STEW - $9.99 Melon Soup? It was very savory, green, spicy, a tad fishy, wonderfuly flavorful. I have no idea what kind of meat was in it, but I believe it was fish. Something super duper chewy. There were little fishbones in it. YUM. Would order again. Be sure you order the fufu to dip into the stew! I recommend it! GROUNDNUT STEW - $9.99 Peanut stew. It was very savory, spicy, creamy. It had meat in it, too, maybe some sort of fish jerky in it? It was ridiculously chewy. Whatever it was, my partner and I didn't care because it was delicious. I would recommend it, again, with fufu. CHICKEN PIE - $3.00 each. Just okay. SCOTCH EGG -$2.50 My partner was so excited about how good these were. I agreed, they were very tasty. Fried boiled egg coated with sausage. We ate them first. So good! There are so many things on the menu to try. I know they're new and still getting their feet on the ground. I hope they stick around. They're a great addition to Squirrel Hill. Explore and enjoy this woman-owned business!

    Nigerian Sharwama...note the shards of aluminum foil...they need to change how they cut or wrap this.
    Jonathan A.

    Wasn't sure what to expect coming here . The shawarma is pretty safe if you don't want spicy or exotic food (Greek ones are better though). The chicken pie was also pretty good but on the small side. Couple disappointments: the shawarma wrap had thin shards of aluminum foil embedded in the wrap and that's not ok. I think they cut it in half after wrapping the whole thing and that was the issue. Also the chicken pie is ground chicken I guess because there was no way to tell it was in there.

    Meat pie = yum
    Kristen E.

    Hubby and I decided to be adventurous for dinner tonight. We couldn't get through by phone to ask questions before ordering, so we googled things we were unfamiliar with and put in a GrubHub order for pickup. It was ready 45 minutes later on a busy weekend night. Win: The akara (3 pieces) and meat pie (1 palm-sized piece) came home piping hot and delicious. Near-miss: I ordered the okra stew knowing the vegetable's slimy reputation; if green had a smell/flavor, this would be it. Tolerable with the fufu (pounded cassava--looks, tastes, and functions rather like mashed potatoes), but I would try something else next time. I ate half the fufu and saved the other half as leftovers. Warning: The groundnut stew has meat in it (beef?) and is SPICY. Thank goodness the order of white rice was generous enough to cut some of the heat. Everything was well-packaged and some items were labeled, which we appreciated. Prices are more than fair, so we will come back to enjoy more Nigerian food, right here in Squirrel Hill.

    Akara
    Ulyana K.

    Decent food. I've only tried a few African spots in Pittsburgh, and this has been on the less delicious side. Still, it was very decent food. And, many of the food items were unique, so it's nice to have spots like this in the area. I ordered the beef meat pie, puff puff (3 of them), and akara bean 'cake.' My favorite of the items were the delicious puff puffs. If you want a nice, chewy, donut-like snack, then this is the food for you. It was not too oily and very cheap, at a dollar for each of the dough balls. The inside as fluffy. Not too flavorful. I would have enjoyed it more with a dusting of sugar; then, it would serve as a nice dessert. The Akara was interesting. It seemed to have little bits of vegetables included within this bean cake. I was surprised by the level of spice and flavor included in this small patty. It was on the greasier side as well, but also quite inexpensive at just $1.50. Finally, the meat pie was not very good. It was thick in breading and extremely dry. Not just the breading was dry, but the meat itself was as well. It was not very flavorful but did have a little bit of vegetables included as well. Small portion size for the price. All in all, I was not the biggest fan of the food. The portions were quite food and dry, and the flavors were not particularly good. I have not tried many African foods, but there are much better places in Pittsburgh. Definitely try Fabs, it's got similar food but much better quality.

    Puff-Puff Asun Chapman
    Penny T.

    $15.99 for a super small shallow bowl of damn-hot level lamb. Shocked by its tiny portion, extreme spicy level, and crazy price. Chapman drink tastes weird: sweet drink with strong cucumber flavor. Puffs are good. Never come back again. Bad idea of trying new food today. So disappointed.

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    I got fufu and egusuie here and it was great and the owner was really nice, I would recommend coming here

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    Great food, service and people! BRING YOUR LOVED ONES!!! I've been there with friends and family several times!

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    Love the food here it's the best. Eguzi Soup and Jollof rice. Also good is the Palm nut soup.

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