Our History
Eleven years, one street, and a rule about fish that has survived three kitchens and two rebuilds.
2013 to now
The Dates
Two of these mattered. The rest are the sort of thing that happens to any restaurant that stays open long enough.
A stall behind the Osu night market
Nii came back from Osaka with a knife roll and no plan. Six stools, one cool box, and rice cooked in his mother's kitchen two streets away.
18 Oxford Street
Twenty-two seats above a phone shop. The counter was reclaimed hinoki that came in as ballast and cost more to plane than to buy.
The Tema arrangement
Four skippers agreed to hold back their best box each morning. It is a handshake, it has never been written down, and it has never been broken.
Kpakpo shito on the menu
Two years of arguing about whether a Ghanaian pepper belongs in a maki roll ended when Ama put one in front of Nii without telling him what it was.
The back room
We took the storeroom next door, knocked through, and stopped turning away parties of twelve.
Fifty-two seats and the same rule
Twelve at the counter, forty in the room, and still nothing on the board that did not come off a boat this morning.
The Handshake
In 2018 four Tema skippers agreed to hold back their best box each morning for a small restaurant in Osu. Nothing was signed. It has held through a fuel crisis, a closed border and two years when we could barely pay for it.
What we hold toReserve a Table
Where
18 Oxford Street, Osu, Accra
Phone
030 273 4180
Hours
Tuesday to Sunday, from noon
The counter
12 seats, booked in pairs
The room
40 seats, walk-ins welcome
Large parties
Up to 14, by phone
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