Toyosi Kitchen — Restaurant in Portsmouth

If like me, you have never eaten African cuisine, then prepare yourself. We tried 3 most popular dishes as they were most liked on ubereats (egusi, abula and jallof rice) and unfortunately we couldn't stomach them. We took mixed meat but there was actually no meat in them, only bones, tripe and chewy joints. We took jallof rice with fish and it was mostly rice with tiny piece of fish, mostly consisting of bones. Taste was very umami, a bit like Polish tripe soup, but slightly bitter like the taste of the hearts stew. I'm a bit confused because we use bones in Polish cousine but we don't serve them as you can't eat them. We cook tripe, but we make it soft and eatable, while I tried to chew on this one and couldn't even bite a piece off. Poundo yam was nice and I ended up bickering on it and rice but couldn't...

Sometimes food is okay. She doesn't serve meat in her soup when you order takeaway even though she charges you for the increase in prices due to inflation. This may be a Nigerian things but I believe she can improve. The taste of the food needs to be standardised too. Same dish should not taste differently on different days. This is a...

The food is great, but the service, not so much.

They staff leave customers waiting at the counter for minutes without even an acknowledgement. Service is unnecessarily slow considering the meals are pre packaged and some of the staff come off as rude and disinterested.

That said, the food is really good, moderately priced and have...