Our story
Thirty years on one street
The grill went in before the tables did. Everything since has been an argument about whether to change anything.
1996
Four tables and a borrowed fridge
Lydia Owusu had cooked for other people's rooms for eleven years when she took the lease on a shopfront with a bad roof and a good yard. The grill went in first, before the tables did, because that was the part she was sure about.
The original grill is the one against the back wall. It has been re-lined four times and nobody is allowed to suggest replacing it.
Thirty years
What happened, and when
Nine dates that changed how the room works. Everything else was a Tuesday.
The lease, and the grill
Four tables inside, two in the yard, and a menu of six things chalked on the wall.
1996
The first Tuesday market run
Started because a supplier let us down. Never stopped, and it is still Lydia who goes.
1997
The yard gets a roof
Half of it, at least — which doubled the room and made December bookable.
2003
Kwesi Boadu walks in
Asked for a weekend shift washing up. Runs the pass now, and wrote most of what is on it.
2014
The wood oven
Built in the yard by a bricklayer from Ho over five weeks. Pizza went on the board that October.
2016
The back room opens
Sixteen around one table, with its own door — the first thing here that had to be booked.
2018
Cooking off site
A regular asked us to bring the grill to a wedding in Aburi. We have been doing it ever since.
2021
The seafood weeks
Six weeks each July of whatever comes up from Tema. Now the busiest month of the year.
2023
Thirty years on the same street
Same grill, same market run, three of the first regulars still on the same table.
2026
People do not come back for the food. They come back because somebody remembered them.
Lydia Owusu, founder
By the numbers
Thirty years, counted
30
Years on Ring Road East
1.2
Million plates out of the kitchen
11
People in the room today
380
Reviews, averaging 4.9 out of 5
Reservations
Gather around the perfect table
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
