About us
Thirty years on the same street, one grill, one wood oven, and a board that only moves when the market does.
Who we are
Lydia Owusu opened a four-table room on Ring Road East in 1996 with one grill and a borrowed fridge. The grill is still here. So are three of the first regulars.
Everything that leaves the pass has been cooked over fire or in the oven — there is no microwave in the building and there never has been. The board changes on Tuesdays with the market, and the six things people would riot over never move.
See the menuThe difference
Four things we will not trade away, however busy the room gets.
Charcoal for the grill, hardwood for the oven. Nothing is finished in a pan because the kitchen is behind.
Fish from Tema, vegetables from Makola, bread baked here at four. What did not come in does not go on.
Nine of the eleven people in the room have worked here more than three years. They will know your order.
Nobody leaves hungry and nobody is surprised by the bill. Service is added only for eight and over.
The kitchen and the floor
Founder
Opened the room in 1996 and still does the Tuesday market run herself.
Head chef
Eleven years on the pass. Responsible for the shito salt, and unrepentant about it.
Grill & oven
Runs the coals and the oven. Can tell the temperature by holding a hand over it.
Sous chef
Came in as a kitchen porter in 2019 and now writes half the specials.
Reservations
Tables for two to eight are held online. For nine and over, or for the back room on its own, call the house and we will build the evening around you.
Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30am until late
+233 30 276 4412
27 Ring Road East, Osu, Accra
