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The 9 best suya spots in Lagos, ranked by a very full critic
We spent a month eating our way across the city — from Ikeja's legendary roadside grills to a Lekki spot that's quietly rewriting the rules.
10 October 2026
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The Lagos Table
Food, culture and city life — one plate at a time.
Saturday, 24 October 2026
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- Travel
A slow weekend in Calabar: carnival streets, cliff views and the best afang soup
Three days, one city, zero itinerary. Here's what happened when we stopped rushing and let Calabar set the pace.
6 October 2026
- Recipes
My grandmother's jollof, finally written down
Forty years of 'a little of this, a little of that' — measured, tested and translated for the rest of us.
2 October 2026
- City life
Working from Lagos cafés: where the Wi-Fi is fast and the coffee is better
Our honest guide to the cafés that welcome laptops, ranked by power sockets, quiet corners and pastries.
27 September 2026
- Style
Ankara is having a moment — again
Why a print we grew up with keeps reinventing itself, and the young Lagos designers leading the charge.
21 September 2026
- Culture
The market at dawn: a morning at Mile 12
Before the city wakes, the country's food arrives. We followed it in.
14 September 2026
- Business
Small kitchen, big flavour: the home cooks building food brands online
Meet four Lagos cooks turning family recipes into thriving businesses — one WhatsApp order at a time.
8 September 2026
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Hi, I'm Ada — a Lagos food lover who writes about the places, plates and people that make this city taste like home. Pull up a chair.
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