This Chinese restaurant is located in 911 plaza, Maitama. You can reach it when you come from the British Council roundabout direction Hilton and at the junction you turn left. Then take the next road on your right side and you will reach the place immediately to your left. Kilimandjaro is located in the same complex.

The restaurant is equipped nicely, we went there on valentine's day and there was a life singer there. Unfortunately the staff was not really prepared for all the guest visiting.

This resulted in a kind of push-out-ordering without sufficient time to enjoy the meal. Something like this should be organised in a better way, especially when you order a "dinner for two" and pay almost 35.000 Naira for it.

The food was ok, spicy chicken, spicy noodles, non-spicy beef. I don't like fish, so I don't know how the shrimps were. Steamed rice came with it, the appetizer was either Peking soup or chicken with sweet corn soup and 4 spring rolls. As dessert there was either ice cream or fruit salad (some pieces of pineapple ad water melon). The food came with two glasses of champagne and one large bottle of water.

Now the "but"s: it took us five times until we got the complimentary bottle of water. A colleague of mine who sat next to us had to order his beer also 3 times until it arrived.
Then there was confusion about the starters, so in case of my colleague they got 6 spring rolls, but 2 were taken away from them by picking them with fingers, as the mistake was realised.
Even before we got our dessert, the bill was already ready as new customers were waiting for our table.
And regarding to what my colleague said the shrimps were not too nice, rather soft and tasteless.

So for the money spent compared to the service offered: not necessarily a place to go again to.

Located in Wuse II (Plot 171, Aminu Kano Crescent), Wakkis is a well known place in Abuja. When you go there for Indian food, you will figure out that almost every day there are lots of expats there. The parking lot is showing lots of red registration plates (diplomatic registration) and inside the majority of the guest is white.

Wakkis offers a wide range of non-vegetarian as well as vegetarian dishes. Appetizers are around 600 to 900 Naira, while main dishes start at 2150 Naira. Plus 5% VAT. The food looks small, but is in fact enough to fill you up. Quality is always good, spices are not as hot as in Nigerian food. The restaurant itself is equipped simple, wooden benches and tables. Service is usually good, though sometimes you will have to wait for your food. The dishes are normally served with plain rice (a few roasted onions on top) or naan.

So let me continue within my series "Dining out in..." which I started during the last project in Qatar. Now Nigeria, mainly in the beginning out of Abuja, but maybe there are more locations to come.



This time now Dunes. Located not far away from the Hilton, Dunes is well known to everyone here in Abuja. There's a supermarket on the ground floor offering quite a range of products except alcohol. Run by Lebanese also there's no pork available, the meat is halal.

When you enter the supermarket, there is a snack restaurant in the middle, just on your way to the meat and cheese counter in the back of the supermarket. This snack restaurant opens to the patio and offers nice shadow seats there, so you can easily enjoy your lunch break. Or go for dinner at night.

Dunes offers starters, burgers and sandwiches (as well as single pieces or as platters accompagnied with chips and cole slaw), shish kebap, salads, meat dishes, pasta and pizza. Other than the supermarket they also offer beer here, Star, Gulder and Heineken.

The prices are ok, but keep in mind that a 10 per cent service charge will be added. Sandwiches are most times small baguettes, nicely filled and slightly toasted. Pizzas have a good size, rich toppings and the dough is thin and crispy outside. Tastes very good. Prices are in a range around NGN 800 to 1000 for sandwiches, 1900 to 2400 for sandwich or burger platters and 2000 to 2500 for pizza, excluding service charge. Gulder and Star NGN 500, Heineken NGN 700, minerals (Coke, Sprite, Mirinda) NGN 250 to 350, depending if you take a glass bottle (250) or a plastic bottle (350).