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I visited Asafo restaurant one sunday afternoon to try thier orka soup. A freind of my had been talking about the dish for quite a while but because i…
Nicolas Prinz
Asafo Restaurant
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Tucked away from a busy junction off Brixton hill lies this African restaurant. We could smell the food outside and it was fairly busy on a Sunday eve…
Hungry Girl
Asafo Restaurant
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2 Reviews on “Asafo Restaurant”
I visited Asafo restaurant one sunday afternoon to try thier orka soup. A freind of my had been talking about the dish for quite a while but because im so use to the dish i didnt have much motivation to try it. But I eventually decided to go and the okra soup was worth the visit. At Asafo restaurant they use alot my okra which gave a stronger taste. The soup was also very spicy. As for the service , everything was what I expected, on point. The restaurant was quite small but nicely presented.
Tucked away from a busy junction off Brixton hill lies this African restaurant. We could smell the food outside and it was fairly busy on a Sunday evening. We sat sat down and started looking at the menu. To be honest, I consider myself a foodie but I really didn’t know what half the ingredients in the descriptions were, even a quick google didn’t help. I eventually went for banku and okro which was a spicy stew cooked with okra with a side of jollof rice (the okra had disintegrated which made the stew a bit slimy). It had various pieces of meat and fish inside and was served with a white pillow called banku which is made from maize apparently. The flavour of the stew was pretty good, spicy but wasn’t too keen on the slimy texture. The meat inside was a bit hit or miss. Some of it was nice but some was really chewy although I think it’s meat to be like that, it just wasn’t to my taste. The banku had a similar texture to firm polenta with a slightly sour flavour to it, similar to Ethiopian injera. The jollof rice was good but not the best I’ve had. My friends ordered the tilapia and plantain which was delicious, the plantain better than any I’ve tried in Brixton, the fish was perfectly cooked. I would recommend going for that if you aren’t feeling too adventurous. Service was fairly slow paced so we ended up staying there for quite a while. They said they were particularly busy that day. In general, a nice local restaurant if you aren’t in a rush and want to try something different.