Since 2014
Labadi
Accra
The House
Tide is a seafood house built on a stretch of the Labadi shore where the boats have always come in, cooking what they land and closing the board when it runs out.
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We Buy the Whole Boat, and We Cook It That Day.
Most kitchens order a list and take what arrives. We do the opposite: six skippers call from the water, we take everything they have, and the board is written afterwards. It means the menu moves, and it means nothing on it has been in a freezer.
See the menu40+
Dishes drawn from the morning's catch
220
Seats between the terrace and the room
12
Years cooking on the Labadi shore
6
Boats we buy from, all of them by name
The People Who Cook It.
Four of the eleven people in the kitchen have been here since the tarpaulin. The rest were trained on the grill, which is the only way anyone learns it.
Kofi Ansah
Grew up on the Labadi sand and still calls the skippers himself at half past five every morning.
Esi Aidoo
Runs the coals. Has views about how long a tilapia should sit before it is turned, and she is right.
Yaw Boateng
Shucks every oyster that leaves the terrace and has never once sent out a shell with grit in it.
Akosua Owusu
Bakes in the morning and pours from six. The sobolo recipe is hers and she will not write it down.
Fresh From the Boats
The Elmina and Tema boats land before six. What they bring is what the kitchen cooks, and what they don't is not on the board.
The Oyster Bar
Keta oysters shucked to order at the far end of the terrace, with lime, shallot and a spoon of kpakpo shito.
Fire & Charcoal
Whole fish over coals, turned by hand, with banku, kenkey or plain rice and a bowl of pepper beside it.
Four Things We Do Not Move On.
The board closes when the catch runs out
If the snapper is gone by nine, it is gone. We would rather send a table home talking about the octopus than serve them something that came off a lorry.
Fish is cooked whole, on the bone
A fillet loses everything the bone gives it. If a guest would rather not work through it, the kitchen will break it down at the pass — but it goes over the coals whole.
The price on the board is the price
No service charge added at the end, no market-price asterisk you find out about later. Lobster moves on Fridays and we write the new number up.
A table is yours for the evening
We do not turn tables twice. It costs us a sitting a night and it is the single thing guests write to us about most.
Reservation
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Walk in and take your chances with the terrace, or call the house and we will keep one back for you. Large parties are easiest by phone.
Our address
12 Labadi Beach Road
La, Accra, Ghana
Contact
Phone: 030 274 1180
Email: hello@tide.com.gh
