| Westminster, Strand, Victoria
This restaurant comes from Iré Hassan-Odukale (front of house) and Jeremy Chan (Head Chef) and features a modern take on West African Cuisine that's electified reviewers (and diners) since opening.
Test Drive
The latest restaurant to hit St James's Market sees a reinvention of West African cuisine. And it's pretty special too...
Restaurant details
Address:
1 St. James’s Market, London SW1Y 4AH Nearest tube:
Piccadilly CircusTelephone number: 020 3583 4660
1 Michelin starMap
1 St. James’s Market, London SW1Y 4AH
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Reviewed on April 06, 2018
"If West-African cuisine is close to your heart, your boundaries will be tested beautifully. If, on the other hand, you’ve missed the past 3,000 years, there’s no better place to jump in than here." READ REVIEW
Reviewed on December 02, 2017
"And then the crowning glory, the jollof rice, roasted and smoked and cooked in a dense stock of shellfish and chicken, served with a split roasted marrowbone on top, to be emptied and stirred in. Creamy, roasty, popping with wit and history, not traditional jollof rice but a riff on it, livelier, more modern, the seasoning more insistent and deliberate, just comforting and wholesome and moreish. " READ REVIEW
Reviewed on August 02, 2017
"Jollof rice, a dish common to most West African countries, is slick with chicken stock and barbecued onions but made opulent by the addition of smoked, salted bone marrow to stir in. Garden egg and wild spinach efo (Yoruba name) is aubergine (eggplant, geddit?) topped with what is a highly nutrient-rich weed. It is also rather delicious." READ REVIEW
