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ChòpnBlọk Montrose brings West African cuisine to the heart of Houston, one dish and one cultural conversation at a time…
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By Lisa Davidson | We-Heart

ChòpnBlọk Montrose continues to pull in the crowds, the fast-casual West African restaurant from Ope Amosu offering not only food and drink, but a vibrant community space for the neighbourhood.

Beginning life as a 670 square foot food stall in the Downtown culture, food, and recreation hub POST Houston in 2021, ChòpnBlọk Montrose is the concept’s first bricks-and-mortar location, the deliberate expansion strengthening Amosu’s mission to “make West African cuisine a vibrant part of everyday life, all within a city that is home to one of the largest communities of Nigerians in the country.”

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A Memorable Senegalese Chicken Dish from Yassa African Restaurant
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By Daniel Hautzinger | wwfw

If you go to Senegal, yassa is very, very popular,” says Madieye Gueye. “People who go to Senegal say it’s what they remember the most, because it’s easy to remember: yassa!”

It’s not surprising then, that when Gueye opened a Senegalese restaurant in Chicago in 2004, he called it Yassa African Restaurant, after that memorable dish.

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At The Green Place in Brooklyn, Fufu is the favorite food of Americans
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By Ebimo Amungo

Jollof rice may be the rage but at The Green Place, fufu is the food that is ordered the most by Americans.


Joy Green, owner of this Nigerian restaurant on Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, gave this insight with a laud guffaw.


“They also order a lot of okra soup” she added laughing.

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Spice Kitchen wants to change the world with its stellar Nigerian food
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By Tim Carman | The Washington Post

Thin strips of beef, dusted with a formidable West African spice blend, are scattered atop a waxy sheet of “The American Times,” a faux newspaper whose motto is “All the News That Changes the World.” The slogan, an obvious riff on the Gray Lady’s 19th-century retort to yellow journalism, seems custom-made for Olumide Shokunbi and Spice Kitchen.


Shokunbi earned his stripes in the restaurant business at Chipotle Mexican Grill, rising to the level of general manager at a store in his native Bowie, Md. The chain left its mark on him, not so much with its approach to customization but with its big-tent philosophy.

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Gambian immigrant’s restaurant brings spicy West African food to Jackson
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By Todd A. Price | Mississippi Clarion Ledger

Sally Demba, 56, brought her family to the United States in 2007 from West Africa. For her new friends in America, she cooked food from her native Gambia. They told Demba she should have her own restaurant.

Last Saturday, Demba finally opened a restaurant, Sambou’s African Kitchen in Jackson, with her son, Joseph Sambou, 34, and her daughter, Bibian Sambou, 36.

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Detroit’s Newest Food Truck Serves ‘Authentic Nigerian Cuisine’ On Livernois
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by Alan Stamm | Deadline Detriot

An immigrant entrepreneur who launched a northwest Detroit food truck called Fork in Nigeria two months ago has a heads-up for adventurous diners: Some “restaurants we have around here wrongly brand themselves as African,” Prej Iroegbu says at his website.

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Fava Pot Bringing Egyptian Street Food to Rosslyn
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By Ashley Hopko

International foodies in Rosslyn will have another eatery option with the upcoming expansion of Fava Pot.

The restaurant — Egyptian Street Food by Fava Pot — is expected to open in September, just in time to celebrate the local chain’s 3rd anniversary, according to owner Dina Daniel.

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1000-Year-Old West African Ginger Drink Gets New Life in Harlem
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At Ginjan Café, founders Mohammed and Rahim Diallo aim to paint a more complete picture of Africa.

By Vonnie Williams

1000-Year-Old West African Ginger Drink Gets New Life in HarlemAt Ginjan Café, founders Mohammed and Rahim Diallo aim to paint a more complete picture of Africa.

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African food truck diversifies food scene in West Campus in Austin, Texas
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BY SARA JOHNSON

A new food truck opened last Wednesday behind the University Co-op, bringing the taste of African cuisine closer to campus.

African Delights offers a small, seasonal menu of West African cuisine and operates between 11:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m., according to a sign on the front of the food truck.

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