Our
History
Ten YEARS!
None of it was a plan. Each of these is somebody saying yes to something slightly larger than the last thing they said yes to.
2014
A drum behind a bar
Kwabena welds a drum in half, sets it behind a bar on Cantonments Road and sells four cuts on a Friday. It sells out by nine and the bar asks him back.
2016
The first whole animal
A farmer near Somanya offers a whole beast at a price that only works if nothing is wasted. The braised section of the board is written that week and has never come off it.
2018
Oxford Street
The building on Oxford Street comes up. The pit is bricked in before the floor goes down, which decides where every other thing in the room ends up.
2020
The year of the hatch
The room closes and a hatch opens onto the side street. Brisket by the kilo, wrapped in paper. It keeps thirty-one people employed and the fire alight.
2022
The ageing room
Upstairs becomes a chamber. Twenty-eight days, and the ribeye stops being a good steak and starts being the reason people book two weeks out.
2024
Ten years
The terrace opens, the long table goes in, and the board is still rewritten every week by whoever is holding the butcher's notebook.
The Building Now
The Pit
Lit at six, never allowed out, eight counter seats along its edge.
The Floor
Sixty-two seats, the long table down the middle, terrace beyond it.
The Pass
Butchery behind it, ageing room above it, nine cooks between them.
The next ten years look a great deal like the last ten, only earlier in the morning.
Come hungry. Leave slowly. We keep a table by the pit for whoever books it first.
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18 Oxford Street, Osu — Accra
+233 30 274 1180
Tue–Thu: 12:00 — 22:00
Fri–Sun: 12:00 — 23:30
