Chishuru

West African · London · Michelin One Star · Chef Adejoké Bakare

London's best-value Michelin-starred restaurant. Chef Adejoké (Joké) Bakare became the first Black female chef in the UK to earn a Michelin star (February 2024). Modern West African cuisine with Nigerian Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa influences. Set menu format to reduce 'decision fatigue' - guests choose only the main course. 65 covers across 2 floors. Food is spicy by design and cannot be made less spicy. Not halal. Cannot accommodate vegan.

3 Great Titchfield Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8AX, London

• One Michelin Star
• Chef of the Year
• Best Restaurant London

Menu

Wines

• Wine Flight (56) — French small producers, low-intervention
• Champagne by Glass (16) — French selection. Source: chishuru.com

Cocktails

• Okra Martini (14) — West African-inspired cocktail
• Digestif Selection (10) — Fine spirits. Source: chishuru.com
• Plantain Sazerac (14) — West African-inspired cocktail

Dishes

• Sinasir — Fermented rice cake with white crab meat, pumpkin, sorrel purée
• Ekoki — Corn preparation with tamarind, mushroom floss
• Mbongo Tchobi — Poached monkfish with blackened tomato and spice sauce, pickled greens, confit plantain (fish main)
• Ngalakh — Rice ice cream with ehuru oat crumble, ginger cream
• Ogiri Rice — Fermented locust bean rice. Source: chishuru.com
• Mutton Sausage (12) — House-made mutton sausage (optional supplement)
• Akara — Bean fritter stuffed with okra and candied chillies, fermented rhubarb and chilli sauce
• Pepper Soup — Spiced broth with uziza peppers, torched line-caught mackerel, vegetables
• Nsala — Guinea fowl with ehuru and uziza sauce, taro root (meat main)
• Ayamase — Hogget (mutton) with West African green pepper sauce (meat main)

Tasting Menu

• Pre-Theatre Menu (65) — Pre-theatre menu, bookable 5:30-6pm

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