Kola Restaurant & Ultra Lounge — Restaurant in Farmington Hills

Greetings, Very rare that I go to places like this for parties. Overall it was clean with beautiful decor. The art and pieces around the room, the wall paintings, very cultural rich atmosphere outside of the party club feeling.

The building is in three parts. The first is the outdoor seating when you first walk up. On this particular day, the group that rented the outdoor seating were older sports guys who all seemed to be smoking hash. I could barely breathe as I tried to enter the building. You have to go past them because the shape of the building, it’s like an L and the door is in the crook.

The second part is the foyer, where all of the art and food is. It’s a wonderful area with not much seating though. It seems to be more of a roaming area with high tables. I didn’t try the food, the line was really long, which is a good sign.

The third area is the main room, there’s a dance floor and band area. The people DJ’ing this day had it cranked up to 10. During Covid, I did not want to get that close to someone just to hear them speak. I was vaccinated, but I kept my mask on (unlike most of the party goers). The music was so loud you had to lean to hear even in the foyer. Mind you, they didn’t close the door, but there may have also been speakers in the foyer. The furniture in the main room was pretty nice, but insufficient for the number of people present. That meant a lot of standing around. I don’t know how much of this was administrative and how much was planned by the party host, but I was not thrilling on the loudness or the lack of seating.

Overall, it was clean and the furniture was nice. The food was most likely good and the foyer decor was amazing. The people partying… well....

I have nothing but high praises for Liz, the manager at Kola Restaurant & Ultra Lounge. So, there I was in San Diego, CA, surfing the Internet at 2 am, when I came across this Nigerian restaurant offering to ship Nigerian food to anywhere in the United States. I could not believe my eyes. I had to test this proposition.

I put in a big order that included, moin moin, suya, jollof rice, edikang ikong soup with assorted meat, egusi soup with assorted meat, dodo (fried plantain), smothered turkey, and a couple of other food items.

I wanted to test the "ship all over the U.S." promise. You better believe that Liz shipped my order from Michigan to California in proper wraps, properly packaged boxes and ice inserts to preserve the food. I was very impressed.

I was very pleased with the stuff I have already eaten. The moin moin was delicious. Ordered so much that I ate it for breakfast for a week. I enjoyed the suya. Oh . . . the suya spice was awesome just like I remember it growing up in Nigeria. The spice makes the suya very delicious.

I have put the rest of the order in the freezer for now but can imagine how delicious they are, based on the dishes I already tasted.

I give Kola Restaurant & Lounge FIVE STARS for delicious meals and...

I do not like giving bad reviews but this place really needs to change a few things. I'm not sure if I just came on a bad day but this was the worst resteraunt experience I have ever had. The ambiance and place it self was fine. The service was alright but the food was frighteningly bad. We order snails as an appetizer which was 13.00, there was not a single part of the snail that was not hard or even edible. My boyfriend and I are big on snails and know that they can be prepared in different ways but there was no way to eat any of our dish. Then we ordered coffee and our server hands us two cups of warm water and two plastic containers of instant coffee. It wasn't even good instant coffee, they should of at least poured the coffee into the water in the back of the resteraunt. My boyfriend tried adding cream to his coffee and the cream was clumpy and spoiled. Then our main dishes came out. I got the jerk chicken and plantains and he got the goat and plantains. The fried plantains were soft and tasted as if they had been out for a while and the goat had only fat on it and barely any meat. My jerk chicken was okay but I was so shocked on how a place could be...