Had dinner here tonight after seeing an instagram post by @rocfoodies showing an immense 'sampler' platter they ordered at a recent visit. In the post they also mentioned that the owners are Liberian, and that particularly piqued our interest, as my husband spent over 20 yrs in Liberia in the 70s and 80s. That post basically convinced us to ditch our other dinner plans and go straight there after work. My husband is extremely fond of Liberian food, and a dish called "palm butter" specifically, having grown up with all the various soups and rice dishes as staple foods while living in the capital city Monrovia. As for me, I spent 3 years living in Sierra Leone, the country just north of Liberia. Sierra Leonean 'chop' shares a lot in common - soups (cassava and potato leaves), stews (okra and peanut), rice dishes (jollof), fried plantains, dried fish, hot pepper, fufu, palm oil, etc and I equally love it. So tonight we were basically transported back to our lives in West Africa via our taste buds. We ordered the palm butter and the potato leaves, and both were almost exactly as we remembered. Both come with either rice (our choice) or fufu, and the portions are easily enough for two people to share. I would guess we each received 2 to 3 CUPS of cooked white rice plus our respective bowls of soup. Back in WA, we would usually only eat once a day, so that huge portion was breakfast, lunch and dinner; here, I would say this is your meal and an equal portion of left overs for another day! You might be wondering exactly what is in the soup? Lots of bones (mainly from turkey, which is affordable for them to buy in bulk, but which is not found at all in WA and thus is not typical), plus some dried fish, palm butter (a thick red oil), hot pepper, onions, and then depending on what you order, there might also be black eyed peas or chopped greens (potato leaves are from the sweet potato plant) or eggplant or more veggies. This is not vegetarian, but neither is there a lot of actual meat - more like the meat and bones are all boiled together to make the stew, and the 'goodness' is really the flavor of everything cooked together. In Sierra Leone, we called all these various soups and stews 'plasas' short for 'palava sauce' - where the 'palava' or 'argument' is between all the ingredients that don't seem to go together, but make a unique and tasty final dish. This is definitely authentic West African cooking and flavors, even if they are improvising some of the main ingredients. (Usually the primary meat would be beef, goat or chicken.) The location of this small place is on South Plymouth, in a strip mall that also houses an East African market, a meat shop, a nail salon, and an Islamic center. There was plenty of parking in the plaza lot. When you enter the restaurant, you order at the counter and they bring the food out as it is ready. We were there from around 6:30-7:30 pm and it took approx. 20 min to get served our food. Inside there is seating for maybe 10-12 people, though most of the folks we saw were getting take out The folks working inside were friendly, the place was clean, and tables were covered in brightly covered cotton fabric. Loud dancehall music was playing and we just felt totally 'at home' as if we were in our fave chop house in Freetown. We will definitely be back and are looking forward to trying more of their menu. We highly recommend you give this small local family-run business a try. If you want to start 'easy' go for the jollof (spelled 'jellof' here) rice - a tomato-based rice dish similar to paella or jambalaya though spiced differently, or the peanut soup, which will be reminiscent of peanut-based thai dishes you may know. Fried plantains are another 'can't go wrong' choice. If you want to go full on African, try one of the leaf-stews (cassava leaves or potato leaves) with fufu or, order my hubby's fave, palm butter! read more