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  • 020 3490 4918
  • 51 Camberwell Road, SE5 0EZ (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
  • Mon-Wed 12pm-11.30pm, Thurs-Sat 12pm-1am, Sun 2pm-10.30pm

Sierra Leonean restaurant in Camberwell, on Camberwell Road near where it becomes Walworth Road. They also do takeaway.

secretlondon visited for a takeaway in June 2010. I had the weekend special of bitter leaves, beef, and dried fish, with rice (£8). It was hotter than I expected, but I know nothing about Sierra Leonean food. I've been back a few times since and tried dishes including jerk chicken and jollof rice with chicken. The meat I've had from here wasn't offal, unlike the "mixed meat" I had at Moyo-Ma (another West African restaurant just down the road).

They have a number of daily specials and sell home made ginger beer (which I've not sampled). They are also licensed. I've had an akara bean doughnut starter (£2) photo which was fun. They had a cinnamon flavour which contrasted with a spicy tomato sauce.

A visitor called Camberwellian adds: An excellent restaurant with genuinely warm and friendly service. I've had:

  • Cassava leaves with mixed beef and dried fish - this was perfect. It came with fufu and was expertly flavoured.
  • Grilled sea bass with plantain and veg - flavour was amazing but let down slightly because not all the fish scales had been removed properly.
  • Suya - delicious
  • Grilled gizzard - succulent and tasty
  • Jollof rice and stew meat - rich flavour but subtle compared to Nigerian equivalent at Canaan. Less greasy and spicy than Canaan which is a good thing but sometimes I'm in the mood for greasy and spicy!

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Last visited by secretlondon, October 2011.
OS X co-ord: 532433 OS Y co-ord: 177785 (Latitude: 51.483008 Longitude: -0.092541)
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