// Guests & press //

Eight hundred and forty opinions

What has been written about the room, what the score actually is, and what people book it for.

// In print //

What has been written about the room

The tilapia is the argument. Split, salted, laid straight on the coals, and served with nothing on it that would get in the way.

Accra Eats

March 2026

A room that has worked out what it is for. Nobody rushes you, the bar seats are the best in the building, and the bill never surprises anybody.

The Ghana Table

November 2025

Ten years on Oxford Street and still cooking off one grill. The jollof would be reason enough; the terrace on a Friday is the rest of it.

West Africa Weekend

August 2025

// The score //

4.9 out of five, from 840 guests

Every review is read on a Monday morning, and the ones that are not five stars are read twice. Two things came out of last year's: a second runner on Fridays, and a quieter extractor over the bar.

Google, TripAdvisor and the book by the door

Read the menu
A full room at Basil on a Friday evening
Two guests raising cocktail glasses
Plates going out to a table
A board of small plates for the table

// What the room is used for //

Four evenings we do well

The terrace

Birthdays

Forty people, one long table down the middle, and a cake we will plate for you.

The whole room

Company dinners

Both floors and the bar, a fixed price agreed first, one bill at the end.

The terrace

Launches

Standing, boards circulating, a bar tab with a ceiling you set before the doors open.

The long table

Sunday lunch

Ten to eighteen, three courses, and nobody asking whether you would like the bill.

The dining room at Basil under its slatted wooden ceiling, laid for dinner

// Reservations //

Secure your table for a memorable meal

Two sittings a night, Tuesday to Sunday. Tables of eight and over are best booked a week ahead — we hold the long table by the window for them.

Tue–Sun · 12pm–11pm Parties of 1 to 20 +233 30 291 8840
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