Kind words
Guests & press
Fifteen years of people telling a waiter something on the way out, and a few of them saying it into a microphone afterwards.
Book a tableWord of mouth
Six things said on the way out.
Collected from the book by the door, from WhatsApp, and from people who told a waiter and were asked whether we could write it down.
“The jollof has a bottom to it. You can taste the pot. I have been trying to explain this to my sister for a year and she finally came.”
Serwaa Nyarko
Regular since 2019
“We took forty people into the yard for my father's seventieth. Nobody queued, nothing ran out, and the grill was still going at midnight.”
Emmanuel Mensah
Hired the yard, March
“I took my mother, who has firm opinions about tilapia and has never once asked to meet a chef. She asked to meet the chef.”
Naa Boye
Osu
“I did the pepper class in January and have not bought a jar of anything since. My flatmates have thoughts about the smell.”
Kofi Asare
Cooking class, January
“They cooked our wedding on a beach in Prampram for three hundred people and it tasted exactly like it does in the restaurant.”
Abena & Yaw Osei
Wedding, Prampram
“Booked a table for one at the bar on a wet Tuesday and was treated like a party of ten. That is the whole review.”
Michael Tetteh
Airport Residential
In print
Where the food has turned up outside Osu.
2024
Accra Weekend Guide
“Ten tables worth leaving the house for — and the only one on the list where you will be shouted at affectionately by the kitchen.”
2023
Citi TV, Food Files
A twelve-minute segment on the travelling grill, filmed at a wedding in Prampram and, mercifully, mostly of the food.
2022
Ghana Hospitality Awards
Chop bar of the year. The trophy is behind the bar next to the original coalpot and is used to hold bar receipts.
2021
The Fourth Estate
“A restaurant that kept all twenty-two of its people on the payroll through the worst year the trade has had.”
2019
Joy FM, Cook Off
Adjoa Mensah on live radio, explaining palm nut extraction to a presenter who had never seen a palm fruit.
Who sits down
The bookings this room actually takes.
Birthdays
The yard has held about four hundred of them. Bring your own cake; we will not charge you for it.
Outdoorings
Sunday lunches for a new baby and forty relatives, which is our favourite booking of the week.
Office parties
Ministries, banks, two law firms and a football club, none of whom sit anywhere near each other.
Weddings
On site or off. Thirty to three hundred, cooked where you are rather than reheated in a van.
Wakes and funerals
Quietly, at short notice, and with the room closed if that is what the family needs.
Tuesday nights
One person at the bar with a book. Also a booking, and treated as one.
Tonight
There is a table with your name on it.
Two to twelve people, seven days less one. Tell us when, and whether anyone at the table is frightened of pepper.
Book a table