If you’d like to experience Nigerian tapas for the first time, you’d best hurry or it could be the last time, with word that Chuku’s on Tottenham High Road is facing potential closure. We deemed it ‘undeniably excellent’ when we dined there not long after Chuku’s first opened its doors in March 2020, and it has also held sway with food critics Grace Dent and Jimi Famurewa since then.
Their aim now is to secure 600 bookings over six weeks (or 100 bookings a week, to break it down) in order to keep the restaurant afloat amid the cost of living crisis, which has compounded the adverse effects of their opening, unfortunately, just prior to the pandemic’s beginning.
Their USP is authentic recipes from all over Nigeria, with sibling co-founders Ifeyinwa and Emeka Frederick spreading the joys of their culture through the power of food and artistic endeavours. Just last month, they celebrated Nigerian Independence Day with performances from Nigerian writers and Afrobeats from DJ Jimi D Baldheaded Guy.
If you’re keen to join the six-week-charge to see them endure into 2023, then you’ll enjoy a menu that includes:
- Jollof Quinoa: quinoa steamed in a traditional red-pepper & tomato stew and smoked in-house
- Moi Moi: savoury steamed pudding made from puréed bean, sweet red peppers and onion
- Caramel Kuli Kuli Chicken: chicken wings coated in a salted caramel infused with kuli kuli (a northern Nigerian peanut spice mix)
- Lamb Asun: spicy, smoked lamb peppered with ginger, garlic, red onion, coriander and scotch bonnet
- Chin Chin cheesecake: orange and stem ginger cheesecake on a crunchy cardamom and chin chin base
More about Chuku's
Where is it? 274 High Rd, London N15 4AJ
When? The six-week-charge runs from now to 11 December 2022
Find out more: Visit their website or follow them on Instagram @chukusldn
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