Lagos Restaurants

We were seduced by the tables in the sun and the cool-looking chairs.

I was concerned. Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where I actively avoid the local food. There's only so much cheese, bread and potatoes a man can eat.

But the secluded tables in the sun had us.

Oops.

The salad was pathetically small, and all the interesting bits were recently liberated from tins. Rachel's cheese plate was better (some people have a higher cheese threshhold), but then again, arranging cheese isn't really that easy to screw up.

Worst: the whole meal cost nearly EUR20 each.

Do not eat at the A Vaca Swiss restaurant. Perhaps admire the chairs. Even order a beer. But only eat there if you like to part with unnecessary sums of cash for small amounts of utterly bland food.

The Swiss have enough money. In Lagos, spend yours elsewhere.

Favorite Dish: Cheese.

Even the Swiss can't fukc up cheese.

It's simple, it's cheap, it's rustic, it's local, it's recommended by all the guidebooks and by all the locals.

Do not ignore this advice. Despite eating in restaurants more than four times the price of the Adega, we failed to find better food in Lagos.

It's not smart. The service is entertainingly abrupt. And if you order a large glass of wine, they'll bring you three quarters of a litre.

Favorite Dish: Steak andswordfish

For steaks, order more time on the grill than you would usually. I ordered a rare and it was definitely blue. (I suspect that a blue steak ordered here would happily make good use of yoke and ploughshear). So if you don't like bloody steak, order very well done.

The swordfish was huge and fantastic.

The meal costs us less than ý7.50 each including huge amounts of wine and several beers.

Look, atmosphere, wine and ambience: great.

There though, the good things stopped.

We were seated in seconds, but then neglected for over 10 minutes. The menu looked OK.

We ordered two different fish dishes. Both uninspired to the pont of blandness. It seemed as though the chef might have known this: both dishes were so heavily salted, they were close to inedible.

Couldn't wait to leave.

We learned later that they'd only recently opened. They need to get their act together. This was one of the most charming eateries we found in Lagos. It woudl be a shame if they never managed to be more than skin deep.

Favorite Dish: The wine. The best Verde we tried.

Once, Linda's was a bona fide beach shack. EU regulations forced them to pull down the original and rebuild in wood to tight specifications from the ground up.

Never visited the old one, but it had a great reputation. What they have now, however, is superb. Smart looking and feeling. Relaxed atmosphere with great and attentive service.

They deserve to build a reputation just as good as the original.

They don't open beyond 8pm except on Fridays for a BBQ .

Find them here:
N37 06.338'
W8 40.008'

Favorite Dish: I had the Thai Chicken. It was a cooler day and I needed something warming. It was that and more.

This is seafood cooked and served in a "Cataplana", a traditional pan, generally made of copper. It seem 2 equal shells that close tight, so the food are cooked under pressure and keep all his flavour. It opens on the table and you feel the pleasant smell of fresh coriander, tomatoes, peppers, oignons and obviously the shellfish, all in a mediterranean way.

Favorite Dish: You must look for a Restaurant that have serve this.

In simple words:lousy food,no service,dirty place.

Favorite Dish: Fish in a clay casserole is one of the superbs specialities you can find.

Great tapas. delicious desert i tryed the icecake and my girl try the foam with açores cheese ammazing and diferent

Favorite Dish: mixed tapas, and coconut shrimps