Support the movement; 'FEED LAGOS 2016'

Hey guys

The year 2016 is about to come to and end...WHOOP WHOOP!!
I hope we have all had a fantastic year.  My year has definitely been a learning experience...watch out for my story:)

To end the year in a happy mood, my friend and I are embarking on a food charity project.

Our plan is to feed a 1000 people in Lagos this December. We plan to visit two areas, one in Oworonshoki (mainland) and the other in Ajah (Island).

Hunger is real and we need to help those around us who cannot afford a good meal in a day. What better way to put a smile on someone's face this christmas.

Please support us with  donations or by being a volunteer. Any little helps:)

                            Please contact the numbers on the flyer for more details:)

                                                                                              With Love, Your Food-junkie girl:)
     

My FAV spots/restaurants in Lagos

Hello lovely people

I hope we are all doing well:):) I have not posted anything in a long while:(

The blog is about to undergo new changes but would be back with a BANG...yes I said it...A BANG!!! I have so much in store for you all...new look with interesting content, mind blowing pictures/videos and so much more. You def need to stay tuned for it:):)

Just before I go on my break, I want to leave my lovely readers with one more post.

I am sure we all know that I have been in Lagos for almost a year now. Trust me to have tried out so many restaurants/spots in Lagos and my size can testify to that haha. I am still exploring more amazing places because Lagos just has so much to offer....

 For now, my top favorite spots are


JEVENIK RESTAURANT
This has got to be my best restaurant in Lagos. The food is so palatabe and yummy. I have gone to their restaurants in Ikeja and Victoria Island. The portions are great so the food is always so filling. It is a great place to have a family dinner, lunch with friends, meetings and any kind of celebration. The one in Ikeja has a private/VIP hall were you can enjoy your lunch in private. They always have good music playing in the background and the prices are very very reasonable. This is a 100% Nigerian food restaurant

RHAPSODY
Rhapsody has everything for the youngsters like me. From a lounge to good drinks to great entertainment to amazing food to great music and much more. It is legit the best place to go if you want to chill, eat and have a food time:):) It opens from 5pm but around 8/9pm is the best time to go there. I have been to two on the Island, one in Lekki and another in Victoria Island. I have seen one at the Ikeja city mall too which is great for mainland chills:) The last time I went, I ordered one of their pasta meals and it was great. Let me be honest, the prices are high oo but I promise that you would have a good time.

SPURS RESTAURANT
My first time at Spurs was last year when I was one of the 'I just got back' peeps. I went to the one in Ikeja on Isaac John Street. I celebrated my birthday there and I posted something about it (PLEASE CHECK IT OUT). I had a great time there. This year, my office is too close to the one in Victoria Island so I am sort of a regular there. The food is always great. The ambience and south indian setting are pretty cool. Their portions are not as much as Jevenik but for some reason, I am always full when I eat there. This place is like the American-type food place with steak, rice, fries, seafood, burger etc


COLD STONE
I know this is not a restaurant X_X but I have some strong love for this place. They sell icecream, cakes, muffins, brownies and some other desserts but my absolute favs are the icecream cakes and the oreo overload icecream. If you are looking for any dessert place, Cold Stone is definitely the place. I know some people would say Hans and Rene or Icecream factory are better but personally, Cold stone is the BOSS of them all LOOOOL



       THE OREO OVERLOAD!!!!!!

The coolest part is you can find any of these spots both on the mainland and Island:):)

It would be nice to know your fav spots/restaurants in Lagos. Please share xx

                                  
                                                                            WITH LOVE, YOUR FOOD JUNKIE GIRL

Bridge Bar and Kitchen at Heathrow Terminal 3

Hey guys,

I know it has been so long:( I am really working on being more active with my blog posts, just need to adjust to my new lifestyle

So I traveled for a short while, it was amazing because I needed the holiday from the Lagos hustle and struggle. Before I boarded the plane, I went to one of the restaurants at Heathrow terminal 3 to get my last burger for the year LOL

I went to Bridge bar and Kitchen. I had only gone there once to have pancakes but this time I got a burger with sweet potatoe fries. The meal was really good and the burger was juicy:):) I was happier because it was very affordable. The service was great too:) I definitely recommend anyone waiting for their flight at Heathrow terminal 3 to go there:)


                                                I had to put extra ketchup in my burger

 


                                                 The burger meat was soo juicy:)

         

                                As I am not a tomatoes fan, I took mine out of the burger X_X

Celebrating easter with the family

Hey guys,

I hope we all had an amazing easter celebration and got to spend the holidays with family:)

I spent my holiday with my family and it was great. On Easter Sunday, we went to Raddisson Blu for lunch. The restaurant is at Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria Island, Lagos. It is in the same place as Hans and Rene, the famous ice cream place in Lagos.

My mum loves that place so much. The ambience is great and they had a live band play while we ate.

My only issue with the place was even after we made a reservation and came on time, our reservation was given out to someone else so we had to wait a while.

The cost per person was N15,000 and the meal came with a glass of sparkling wine and chapman.

 

 

Because it was buffet, I could only get pictures of the food I chose. I went for FOUR rounds hehehe.

 

 

The Starter; peppered mackarel, shrimps, fish with coconut batter, ham pasta salad, sweet chilli

        The main course; veggies, plantain, jollof rice, prawns in cheese sauce, diced cowlegs

                            The breakfast course; ribs, chicken, sausage, pancakes with syrup

 

My last round was the dessert round but it was so yummy that I forgot to take a picture, I had four cakes with creme brulee and a vanilla mousse.

              Raddisson always gets a 9 out of 10 for me:) One of my fav places in Lagos.

Lunch time at Victoria Island Lagos

Hey guys

I am sure most of us can relate to the work life of a fresh graduate in Lagos. Lunch times are either spent in the office if your workplace provides good and free food or spent at a restaurant close to the office.

For me, I found a really good spot to spend my one hour lunch break. I went there with my team for four days stretch till we realized we needed to start cutting cost. This spot was called MAMA CASS.
I always heard about the place when I was in the UK but I never had the chance to go there.

The restaurant is cool, simple sitting arrangements with a mini selection of food choices from rice, swallows and soups, moi moi, beans. porridge, plantain and spaghetti.

One colleague loved spaghetti so she would always order it with chicken while the other loved 'pomo' (cow skin/fat). I on the other hand would order different things every day to experiment but never ordered porridge. On a scale of 1-10, the food would get a 7 because their stew was peppery sha

I used to go to the one on Adeola Odeku Street, VI and it was always full during lunch hours

Some of the dishes I ordered were

                                           RICE WITH BEANS, PLANTAIN AND BEEF

                                             PASTA WITH PLANTAIN AND POMO

                                              VEGETABLE WITH RICE AND POMO

   


                                                FRIED RICE WITH PLANTAIN AND CHICKEN

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2016

Heyy guys,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2016 is here..whoop whoop...I am super late in posting my first 2016 post, all thanks to my new 9-5 job and limited internet access.

I hope we have been enjoying the first two weeks of the year. I have been adjusting to a new routine/lifestyle and I pray it goes amazing for me. I pray the same and more for you all.

My first outing this year was with my friend and we went to a really cozy and chilled place called OLIVIA'S CAFE. We had earlier planned to meet at BLD in Lekki Phase 1 but my friend was not really feeling the sitting arrangement. According to her, it was not the best place to relax and gist.

We ended up at Olivia's cafe which is in the same building as Nuts about cakes. Olivia's cafe is a place were you want to go relax, use wifi and have brunch with friends. They offer sandwiches, full english breakfast, desserts, pancakes, waffles, hot drinks and more. The prices are pretty decent too.



My friend ordered the full english breakfast with a hot chocolate and a carrot cake on the side

                                           I had pancakes with syrup and apple juice

The pancakes were a bit dry though so I did not finish it. Even though I did not finish it, I was really full which was shocking. The carrot cake was amazing though.


I have planned a lot of places I want to go to in 2016, already made my goals list hehehe..shall be sharing that soon:)

Chinese in Benin City; Kung Fu, Kada Plaza

Hey guys,

Merry Christmas to you all:) I pray this season brings nothing but joy and happiness to you.

I traveled to Benin City for a couple of days to spend time with family.

Throughout my stay, I was craving Chinese food for some reason. I stumbled across a restaurant in a place called KADA PLAZA. I was pretty excited when I saw 'Kung Fu' with pictures of different Chinese meals in the plaza.

My friend and I went in to see what they had, it was very surprising for me as it was not the usual Chinese I was used to. Even the staff had different names for the meals they offered.

They had a buffet setting. How it works is, you select the meals you want then go to the cashier to tell her what you want. The cashier makes a bill for your meal, you pay then take the bill (or docket like they called it) to the server who then serves your meal for you. The process sounds long shey?!?! I thought so too.

They had meal options like shaki in sauce, beef in sauce, gizzard in sauce, turkey, coleslaw, chicken in sauce, chinese rice, vegetable rice etc. It was not a large variety of options though.

I think the concept was to mix Nigerian and Chinese delicacies to appeal to the customers but it was not really working for me. I mean if it is supposed to be a Chinese Restaurant then abeg please let it be fully Chinese meals na...sigh

Overall, it was not so bad...think I would give the restaurant a 5 out of a 10. The service was pretty slow and at times they ran out of food so you had to choose another option or combine two together (I had to do that when I was ordering take away)

I have made a to-go list for 2015...Places I need to go before the year ends..I pray I can go everywhere especially with this horrible Lagos Traffic

1. Hans and Rene
2. Mico's House of Chicken and Waffles
3. Piccolo Mondo Restaurant

                                  Have we all been able to achieve our goals for 2015??

Time with the family at BUKKA HUT LEKKI

Hello everyone,

I hope our week has been splendid:):)

I am so excited that more and more people read my posts. It is so encouraging:):) I hope you all enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing.

Last weekend, my dad decided to take my brothers and I out for lunch. He mentioned there was a really good place in Lekki he had been to a couple of times. I was excited because it was definitely a new place for me to talk about on the blog.

He took us to a place called Bukka Hut on Admiralty way in Lekki. On getting there, I remembered my cousin had told me about the place and how good the food was so I was more excited.

The restaurant has a buffet setting so you could see all the varieties of food they had to offer. They had different types of fish, amala, semovita, different types of rice, beans, beef, assorted meat, chicken, turkey and many more.

The food tasted very good and it was reasonably priced too:)


                                                             MY DAD'S ORDER

   
                            MY BROTHER AND I LOVE OUR RICE AND CHICKEN:)

                                           SOMEONE WANTED TO BE DIFFERENT:)

I really need a new camera to take better quality pictures:(:(  This is going on my Christmas List:)

Fiesta Of Flavours

Hello people,

Happy Sunday:)

I hope we had a great week and looking forward to the week ahead. I wish you nothing but the best week filled with joy and happiness.

Remember my special announcement in my previous post. This weekend was the 3 days of food, music and fun called 'Fiesta of Flavours'.

It started last week Friday and ended today. I spoke to a couple of people and they said they had an amazing time there. Whoop Whoop!!

Unfortunately, I could not go due to unplanned events:(:( but I got feedback from a few people. The place had a huge variety of food stands, drink stands, play house for the children, celebrities came in to entertain guests, superb chefs cooking three and five course meals, food training and workshops, cooking competition, dancing competition and so much more. I swear I am beyond sad that I missed it:(

So if you were like me who missed out on the whole weekend, sorrryyy ooooo

Well, I am patiently waiting for next time.

Did any reader go??

Here are a few pictures from the weekend:):)






                                                             
                                                Hans and Rene came out to play:):)

                                                         A section of street food stands

                                                      Chef RUEBEN three course meal

                                               One of the Vendors; Clicks & Sweer Harriet

Family Day out to Ikeja City Mall, Lagos

Hello people,

HAPPY NEW MONTH:):)

It is December and the last month of 2015. Whoop Whoop!!! This year has been a mixture of amazing and sad for me but all I can say is God is good:)

For next year, I am going to set out goals for my blog and my eating lifestyle. Would be sharing my goals on the next post. I think setting goals keeps you motivated and continuously keeps you in line:)

So today was literally a food fest day:)

Usually, I go to the city mall for KFC or Mr Biggs or Debonairs Pizza but today was different. I actually went to watch a movie with my mum.

After the movie, she brought the idea that we should go to Shoprite supermarket to see what they had to offer rather than the usual places we go to. We got in and I immediately went to the Hot Meals section. I wanted something different so I chose the rice seafood paella, grilled chicken in onion sauce, mixed vegetable salad with no cream, chicken samosa and spring rolls. I topped it up with a vanilla ice-cream with snickers topping from cold stone.

THEY GAVE ME JUST ONE SNICKER:(:(

RICE, CHICKEN AND SALAD 

SAMOSAS AND SPRING ROLL

FIESTA OF FLAVOURS starts tomorrow at 10am. Have you gotten your tickets yet??
Make sure you go there to check it out. Details are on my previous post and on Instagram too xxx 

A Special Announcement

Hey guys,

It has been such a long time since my last post. I have been away due to so many activities beyond my control happening:(

Today I have juicy news. For all my readers who are in Lagos or around Lagos and would love a weekend of music, fun and most especially FOOD, this is for you!!

A whole weekend event called FIESTA OF FLAVOURS is coming up. It is from December 4th to December 6th. It is a fun packed weekend with music and access sooo much delicious food. Different amazing chefs are going to be there, different kinds of street food and many more. Tickets cost 5000 naira only and you get 2000 naira worth of food vouchers. The 5000 naira covers the whole weekend so you pay only once. Location is Harbour Point, Victoria Island Lagos.

I am going to be there and I hope to meet some of you amazing people there. If you go, take a picture and tag me on your post. My insta name is @oghosaaaaaa

It is definitely going to be amazing so do not miss it. Drag your brother/sister/friend/bestie/bae along because the more the merrier


Follow them on insta @fiestaofflavours OR google them to get more info about the event and tickets.

MY TOP 5 FAVOURITE SPOTS IN LONDON

Hey people:)

Happy Wednesday:)

I hope you all are well. Thank you to those who read, share and comment on my posts. I really appreciate it and it keeps me going:)

I feel London sick (cannot say home sick as it is not home LOL) and I miss all my amazing  food spots. I wanted to share with you my top 5 lunch/dinner spots in London. These are officially the best places to have office meetings, meet with friends, birthdays, family outings, dinner dates etc.

To get more information about them, please read the full post of these restaurants on the blog:)


1. GOKYUZU. This is a Turkish restaurant in Finchley road. It is a bus ride from Finchley station. They serve a lot of meat but also have a vegetarian section.

2. RODIZIO RICO; This is an all you can eat meat Brazilian restaurant with a brazilian street food section. I recommend it for all the meat lovers:) There is one restaurant at Covent Garden and another at 02 arena (this one is bigger)

3. WAGAMAMA; all time fav Japanese restaurant. They have so many locations in London though they do not do delivery. If you love spicy, I advice you order the 'fire cracker'. They do breakfasts at the restaurant in the airport and its yummy:)

4. MASALA ZONE; A great Indian Restaurant with non-veg and vegetarian options:) I went to the one in Covent Garden. I am not sure about deliveries. I advise you to go for the platters

5. BYRON; You cannot have a top 5 without burgers. Burgers add that extra spice to life. This place is not the usual Mcdonalds/Burger King type burger ooo. It is absolutely divine. Some compare it to FIVE GUYS and burgers at BURGERS & LOBSTERS but you should try all of them and see the difference.

     
                             WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE SPOTS IN LONDON??

Sweet & palatable Moi-Moi

Hey people,

I hope we are all doing well and we had an amazing weekend:)

For a while now, I start my saturdays with a hot plate of sliced bread, fried eggs, quaker hot and hot chocolate. My mum wanted something different this time so she ordered moi-moi.

She  heard about this place called 'NO LEFTOVERS' and how good their moi-moi tastes. They do deliveries too so it was just the most convenient option. She ordered for 12 so each person at home would have two or three.

The moi-moi came so late though like they had forgotten our delivery:( so they lost cool points with customer service but the owner apologised for the mistake so no hard feelings

It came in a nicely packed box. It was very hot too like they just made it (I advise not to eat moi-moi just made and very hot because it is really soft and not as nice). The food was really good and my mum and her friend really complimented it too and they ate it after it had cooled down.

For the moi-moi lovers out there, you should really try it out oo plus 12 cost 2200 naira with delivery. They are located in Gbagada, just beside Corona Primary School, Gbagada



                                                     SEE NICE PACKAGING OOOOOO

                       THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MOI MOI IS TOO SOFT:(