SOOO GOOD!!!! If you want real authentic Caribbean and African food this is your place!! Tastes…read morejust like home!! It's small family owned restaurant right on the corner on elm st. They're super friendly and The food is amazing!! Highly recommend if you're in the area

Great food, even when a busy festival is keeping the kitchen on its toes!…read more Maya's Kitchen is great, the food is tasty, and the service is delightful. I am saddened to learn that they are closing next year, but that just means that I need to eat there more while she is still open! The Mac & Cheese has a great Caribbean spice, certainly a top contender for M&C and the Chicken Curry is equally tasty. I wish that there was a larger dining room, it's quiet, but I expect that plenty of people come in for take-out, since the meals easily make it home without much loss of flavor. I look forward to visiting more in the future and trying out her entire menu.

Lively beats dispersed- hip openers, if you will. Artists take delight- every I inch from the…read moreentrance to the bathrooms are bathed and invigorated in humble, home grown color splashes and construction. Check out the bespoke lumber fashioned paper towel holders. Tokoss is Africa not American, so experiences w/ "prices" and "time" aren't 110Grill.

My first experience was great! Friendly staff and really homie. It took them a while to make my…read morefood since I ordered everything on the menu and they had just opened. I tend to do this when trying new places so I can figure out what I like, so I am use to waiting a bit. The food was really good and flavorful. The oxtails were so tender and the plantains so sweet. I was really excited about going back and I told a lot of people about this place. Unfortunately, it has been downhill every since. First they are never open on time. I have gone +40 mins after opening and the door was locked. I could see a woman unloading food but she did not acknowledge me. I have called +2 hours after opening and no answer. When I did finally manage to get ahold of someone, the food was cold and they changed the plantain style. Now they use large plantains that are not sweet. They are just dry and flavorless. I was ok with this since the portion size was still good and the other food still had good flavor. The last straw was when I ordered my food in person and I told guy #1 exactly what I wanted. I even got extra oxtail gravy for the rice. I waited about 15 mins for my food and I watched guy #1 finish packing my food. Well guy #2 was obviously upset with the amount of food guy #1 made for me so he made a scene. Even though he was speaking another language I could tell he was talking about me since he kept gesturing to me. They put my original food in a storage cabinet and guy #2 proceeded to remake my food. He put 1 oxtail, no gravy, and added a small amount of sides. This took another 10 mins. I was amazed at what I was watching. Guy #2 hands me the new food and smiles at me. Like I didn't just witnessed what happened. I try to support small places like this especially in this region but after that experience... I will likely never go back. I suggest you order your food ahead of time and avoid the wait and subpar service. Happy Hunting Yelpers!

I was a bit confused with the concept at first, but it turned out to be really easy and the food…read morewas amazing! I've been craving African food since our honeymoon years ago. I finally figured I'd search o line and found this spot. I called and the immediately received a text. Everything was communicated through text, including photos of the menu. You order the day before, and pick a time (it seems like they start around lunch), then pay through Cash App. We met our delivery person at 310 Daniel Webster Hwy Mall Entrance. Nashua, NH 03060, which is one of their drop off locations. It took me a bit to understand the process for ordering and pickup, but I couldn't be happier with the food. We can't wait to try some more items next time! Truly sooooo delicious!

Interesting concept of a way to try West African meals. I texted to (978) 799-0901 to place an…read moreorder, and was informed that their system was already attending to me. I was contacted via text messaging by an automated attendant. I thought it was quite tedious at first, but I understood they wanted to be clear about what I wanted to order, and what they provide. It was quite expensive, but well worth it because the food was delicious with first class service. I felt like a princess. Keep up the good work guys! Never despise days of small beginnings. Thank you!

You could say I drove up from South Western Virginia, just for this restaurant. I was not…read moredisappointed. We arrived a little less than an hour before closing time but we were still happily served. Let me be clear, this is a Ugandan restaurant. Okay, moving on. Our food came out, steaming hot and fresh- nothing seemed like it was reheated (try eating reheated posho y'all). We stayed long after the restaurant was closed to finish our food which really gave me the real homey Ugandan vibes. There were also a bunch of Ugandan uncles in the corner just chatting it up the entire time which was fun. Also, there's a store with Ugandan products, raw frozen cassava/matooke, bitenge, and some other Ugandan staples like Royco, Blueband, Majaani, etc!

People who have traveled in the 3rd world will immediately "get" Karibu. Think of it as being a bit…read morelike having dinner with a family from another country. I can see from the reviews that some people are expecting a smooth assembly line operation like you might expect if you were eating at a cafeteria in Den Bosch in the Netherlands--which I've done. This ain't that. But bring your patience and adaptability and a smile and you'll be rewarded with a hearty country meal East African style. If you want anything spicy ask for it. In the 3rd world in my experience my Anglo looks meant they leave out the spiciness unless you ask otherwise. The vibe is like a Ugandan version of a British village pub full of locals socializing. If you want to meet every Ugandan expat in the Boston area, come on by. But while most of the people were Ugandan we obvious non-Ugandans were greeted with open arms. We asked them to just bring us dinner, and so they did. One interesting thing was the Indian influence--Uganda had had a large Indian community there until Idi Amin appropriated everything they had and kicked them out of the country. I guess some? many? have returned since Idi Amin was kicked out himself. So among the more obviously indigenous chicken stew and cooked plantains as a major starch was samosas and chapatis, much as you'd expect to find in an Indian restaurant. Portions were so big I got two and a half additional meals out of it. I've tried a lot of cuisines--I live in the SF Bay Area which is one of the most multicultural places on Earth--so for me this wasn't all that exotic. Ethiopian food is a lot moreso and a lot hotter, for example. So someone who's only mildly adventurous should do fine here. Actually Cajun cooking from Louisiana is more exotic, frankly. And hotter. And there's nothing on Karubu's menu like that Gulf Cajun fave "Bucket of Mud Bugs" (crawfish). Both my wife and our local friend who dined with us enjoyed our meal, and I look forward to returning on our next trip to Greater Boston. Interestingly both one of our Uber drivers and the night clerk at our hotel were Ugandan and familiar with Karibu and very pleased that we planned to dine there. A lot of the infrastructure people we deal with as we travel are really very interesting people if you talk with them and don't just treat them like they're invisible. And it can make your travels more interesting than just going somewhere and doing the standard tourist things.

Let me start by saying the food is delightful. While I am far from an expert consumer of this…read morecuisine, I have consistently enjoyed the Jollof rice, the fried plantains, the chicken gizzards, and their goat dishes. The portions are generous and the food is wonderfully spicy. The restaurant is very loud as they play music on a sizable PA system in a relatively small space. I would not recommend eating in for anyone with auditory sensory processing differences. That said, if you're going to eat here, pay cash or go somewhere else. In our last visit (October 2024), my credit card was triple billed for our meal. The staff told us that it was a problem with Square. Cool. I've dealt with Square. Square can be a pain, I get it. Sadly, that was the start of the problem, not its resolution. The receipt they sent me was a completely different order (literally nothing we ordered was on the receipt, the the receipt was for almost twice the cost of our meal). The staff said they'd fix it. Cool. We'll wait. However, after waiting 20 minutes or so for this to be resolved, the staff told us that they were unwilling to wait on hold any longer and that they would follow up the next day. I never got a call. Two days later, I called to follow up as the charges had only been partially reversed. When I called the number staff gave me for follow up, they told me my refund was processed. Looking at my credit card statement, it most definitely was not. They refunded a partial and seemingly random amount, leaving them still having overcharged me by more than $60. The staff person I spoke to, who assured me that they would be available on Monday, said they were too busy to talk and would call me back. They did not call me back. The staff person I have been in contact with has been consistently argumentative. I have consistently been made to feel that I am the problem and am an inconvenience for insisting on accurate, timely correction of the charges. I don't care how good the fried plantains are (and they're really good), they're not worth this much headache. I'll not be going back.

I'm so glad there's a place in Concord to stop in for authentic African cuisine. Maddy's Food Hub…read moreopened on Fort Eddy Road near Planet Fitness recently. The space has a homey atmosphere with seating in the dining area and a takeout counter. After seeing their small grocery Mart next to Man Yee Express in the Heights, I decided to head to their small restaurant for takeout. I ordered the Banku & Fried Fish ($17 plus tax) and the owner asked me how spicy, referring to the sauce that comes with it. I was given the spicy sauce and the non spicy tomato sauce on the side. My food was ready to go in about 15 minutes. The boxed dinner had a dense balled cornmeal (slight salt flavor) served with fried croaker fish with bones with shredded onion, and pepper on the side and hot & mild sauces on the side. The hot flaky fish needed to be carefully deboned before enjoying. The sauces were great with my food and with the Banku, the dinner was filling to eat. I will keep Maddy's Food Hub on my list of places to stop for a fresh cooked African meal.

Not sure why this place is marked as permanently closed - we picked up food the other day and it…read morewas delicious! It was our first time trying Eritrean food and we had plenty of vegetarian options to choose from. The service was great and the food was packed with care. As an added bonus, we discovered they have mead and we really enjoyed it!

Tried take out from Asmara this week and it was pretty good…read more Injera and all vegan dishes were excellent, but the lamb was pretty chewy and tough (according to my husband). Prices are pretty good...we shared 2 entrees among 3 people and it was more than enough. We'd likely return if in the area again!

Went here with a friend for dinner. If the "OPEN" sign wasn't illuminated, we might not have…read morethought they were open at all. It looked dark from the outside, and they were doing a ton of decorating inside (for an apparent club night) that almost looked like construction from where we were looking. We went in and asked if they were takeout only, but they hesitantly offered us to dine in (no one else was seated). So we accepted and were sat near the front window where there was a loveseat and armchair near a table. It was a bit haphazard, but it worked. I ordered a modified rasta pasta with tofu and the friend got the butternut squash stew. The food was very good and they accommodated us pretty well when all was said and done. This review was made in connection with a Toast promotion.

First time dinning here. The dynamic of the restaurant was not it for us. My two friends and I got…read morethere around 10pm. During the dining experience the music was on blast like the club. My guess they were transitioning to club scene. Threw us off. I originally ordered the braised oxtail, it took the waitress 40 min to tell me they do not have the oxtail. It also took them 45 min to make 3 cocktail. We were one of two table dining, and there were about 5 ppl at the bar. There were 2 bartenders. I settle for the jerk chicken. The food was mid. I took a couple bite and packed it. My friends pack their food and abandon them in my car.

Red Sea is a lovely family-run Eritrean restaurant on Washington Ave. I'm a big fan of Eritrean…read morefood and have had it in several cities, and this place does not disappoint! The interior is small but has a decent amount of booth seating. The service is also very warm. Came here for dinner on a cold day and ordered a veggie sampler and beef tibsi for two people. Everything was exceptionally tasty and well-seasoned. The tibsi was served together with the veggie sampler (in the middle of the injera), and the whole thing was plenty of food for two. The bill came out to about $60 after tax and tip, which I think is moderately priced for Portland given the portion size, and we left happy! We'll certainly be back.

Food is always amazing! Good portions , homemade from scratch . Service is great ! No regrets going…read moreback there as many times I can. Very well recommended.

I consider this my goto Ethiopian restaurant in the area, even though it is a bit of a drive from…read moremy place. It's totally worth it. It was busy when we went there. They have a good clientele. The ambiance and the service were also quite good. The highlight, of course, was the food. I am a fan of Ethiopian vegetable preparations. The injera was soft and spongy. The vegetables were hot, well seasoned and cooked to perfection. I couldn't get enough of the yellow peas and the lentils. The flavors were vibrant. The highlight for me was the whole fried tilapia. It was well seasoned and fried to perfection. The awaze tibs was also aromatic and perfectly seasoned. All in all, if you are craving Ethiopian food, this is the place to go.

It's crazy that the first time I tried this local favorite is after I moved to the south!…read more My husband has been wanting to try Ethiopian food. Lucky for him, my hometown is a food hub with several great options. We came to Habesha on a Sunday at 12:15ish, right at the time they opened. Our food didn't come out for about 45 minutes, but we received our veggie Sambusa, honey wine, and beer came out beforehand, giving us something to munch and drink in the meantime. Sambusa's are small, we split it, but wish we got two! The beef tibs were delicious! Definitely an option if you're not adventurous with your food. But I highly recommend getting the habesha special and beef tibs to get the full taste and flavor of this cuisine. The beef tibs fed us both, we felt very satisfied. My husband had a flight to catch so it was perfectly portioned, but our next visit to town will definitely include the habesha special AND tibs. Do yourself a favor and pop by. This is probably the best Ethiopian food I've had ever.

Everything is so fresh and delicious, and I absolutely crave her jollof rice. I'm nowhere near…read moreSaugus but I make the trek every few months because it's so good.

Located in the Square One Mall food court, Mariam's Yummy Kitchen serves up African cuisine…read moreincluding meat dishes, rice dishes, soups, stews, pounded yams, beans & plantains, meat pies, fish rolls, cold drinks and Zobo juice. I stopped by Mariam's for a snack while conducting business at the mall. I ordered the Jollof Rice Side ($6 plus tax), Meat Pie ($3.50 plus tax) and a Fish Roll ($3.50 plus tax), which were basically hot & ready to go. The Jollof Rice is a West African dish which had soft long grain rice in a stewed tomato base, bell peppers, and spices. The Meat Pie and the Fish Roll had a dense soft pastry shell with tasty rich fillings. I was very happy with my food court choice of stopping here for a filling tasty snack.