Bantaba African Restaurant — Restaurant in Lynnwood

If you have time, I suggest you call in your order. I figured ordering something simple as soup and a veggie rice plate would be quick but no it wasn't. I had to wait 30 minutes. There was a family of 4 there that said they were waiting for an hour for their food! Aside from that, the customer service was great and the food wasn't too bad. I ordered the goat soup and veggie jolof rice plate. The soup came with rice which had I known, I wouldn't have ordered the veggie rice plate...but oh well. The soup tasted great but was very spicy. So eating it with the Rice made it bearable. The veggie rice plate came with plantains, a piece of vegetable (I don't know what it was) and cabbage. The Rice didn't taste like it was cooked fresh, the plantains was hard and I didn't bother to taste the cabbage and vegetable. The amount of food they gave was alot though, so I ate it for 2 days so I...

I only have purchased their food through Uber Eats which will deliver to our home. So I can not rate service or atmosphere. I can say we love each and every dish we have tried. Even their plain rice is great. Jollof any and all versions....simply excellent. Fried fish, Plantains, Peanut Butter stew, Yassa Chicken are great on their own or with plain rice. Afra Lamb and Afra Chicken are yummy grilled dishes with lovely grilled onions in a touch of some sort of Heavenly sauce. And this may sound odd but one of my favorite things is the small side of fried onions and pepper sauce that accompanies the plantains. I hope they read this because my suggestion is for them to make that stuff in batches and sell it in jars.. it is delicious in everything! Try this restaurant's food. I think you will like it. I highly recommend. I pray they have continued success. I want to keep ordering...

I was waiting for my order, while a customer talked to the guy behind the counter. That's when the customer pointed to a thing a freshly made food opened it, looked at it, pointed and touched it. Then he closed the food, didn't think anything of it cause I figured it was his. Then that customer leaves and a second order of fresh food arrives. The guy behind the counter then put it on top of the food the other guy touched and says "You're order is ready." I'm look at the guy trying to process and then ask " That's the food the other guy just opened and put his hands on." The guy behind the then says "No, it's ok." I then said "No, that isn't ok, that's disgusting." I then walked ou,, unbelievable. Don't come here or if u do make sure you see that no one rummage through...