Giraffe - (Near Southwark, South East)

Joe Bradley My girlfriend went here last week with her friend and knew I’d love it - and damn she was right! Proper little gem of a place. Delicious, fresh and authentic food. Even down the chilli condiments and the suggestions for how to eat the dishes with the sauces. Would highly recommend, lives up the reviews and can’t wait to go back again! BYOB too! Really lovely staff and very reasonable prices for the quality of the food.

Evelina Valtere Had a latte & an acai bowl here this morning. Very beautiful presentation and everything tasted gorgeous!! So glad I had breakfast here.

Camila Lawson Amazing Venezuelan food! Definitely recommend it, and I’ll be ordering some more food again! Coming to visit when I’m in London again!!!

SD 4.5/5 Akara has been on my list for about a year so I was so excited to go and try it out. It really did live up to the hype! Everything I tasted was delicious and what elevated the experience was getting to try so many new flavour combinations. I haven’t had a meal as intriguing as this in a long time. The service was also great, our waitress was so friendly and able to help us decide what we wanted to order. We had the prawn Akara which came with a rich spicy Senegalese sauce that paired beautifully together. We also had the lamb dibi (if you love lamb this is a must try), beef yaji, Lagos chicken, grilled pork and efik rice. The pork was so tender and with the yam sauce, I was fighting myself to slow down and enjoy the dish properly. The rice was moist and flavourful, if you’re hungry I would recommend getting a portion each. We had the warm plantain cake for dessert that tasted like a lighter sticker toffee pudding. I only wish the portion was bigger, it was gone too quickly My only negative points would be it was cold in the restaurant! I was admittedly in a backless dress so bring a cardigan if you’re planning to dress up. I also found it a little noisy due to the chatter reverberating off of the high ceiling. Other than that, I’ll definitely be back in the future to try the other dishes.

Milind Girish Good value portions, very hearty food. They have changed the menu recently to their own cuisine. Thoroughly recommend their chicken soup, absolutely fantastic.

peter burke Tremendous service, The berry smoothie was fantastic and will definitely be getting another on soon after work. Love the art work here too.