Chez Afrique — Restaurant in Colchester

Lovely little taste of Africa. After Google recommended this to me I put it on my 'want to go' list and today was the day!

Popped in for lunch, It was quiet when we entered and we were greeted by a lovely young lady at the counter. We sat down and looked over the menus but I ultimately asked for a recommendation and I wasn't disappointed. I had the jollof rice with mixed meats (chicken and beef), lovely. My buddy had the Nigerian red stew with white rice and plantain which he really enjoyed too.

It's decorated with colourful pictures and wooden planks of dark woods.

Maybe a little highly priced but it's a good size portion and great food so I'd says it's worth it. Ill definitely be back for more, and soon.

They seem to be on just eat and deliveroo too but I'd suggest popping...

I used to be a regular here before I moved away. I was in the area visiting family, so thought I would pick some food up to take home as we always really enjoyed it.

I did not recognise the woman that served me today, but she was a little unfriendly at best. She charged me £12 for a dish that on the menu was £10. I tried to politely query this, and she said that's not our prices. I pointed out its from the menu. She refused to engage and wouldn't make eye contact and moved on to the next customer. If it was the case that the paper menu prices were out of date, she could have just said that. It came across unwelcoming.

on a positive note the food still tastes great, but the puff puffs were half the size...

Had the worst experience with this restaurant. I placed an order that didn’t come for basically 3 hours because “a driver already took the food” I had to call Deliveroo for them to call the restaurant to make a new order since I hadn’t received any. I tried calling the restaurant back but it seemed they’d blocked my number as the call kept disconnecting. When I finally received my order, it was missing 3 items which were the ones I was looking forward to the most. Not giving them 1 star because the bits of the order I did receive was nice. But considering I had to wait for hours for this order, the very least the restaurant could have done was GIVE ME MY...