B&Q Afro Root Cuisine

Dear God, the Egusi Stew with goat and fufu is sooooo delicious that I’ve had to stop going there because I’m trying to lose weight. There have been times that I’ve burned my tongue because I couldn’t wait for it to cool down. The waitress isn’t really chummy, so don’t expect her to hang around with small talk and smiling, but you won’t really want that anyways since you’ll be eating. Keep in mind that it is very SPICY so be sure to ask for a pitcher of water. This dish is sooooo good! I can’t say much about the rest of the menu because I’ve only ever ordered this one item. So so so frigging good! The price for it is about 11 or 12 dollars, SO WORTH IT.

B&Q Afro Root Cuisine has some of the best Nigerian food that I have ever tasted! The Jollof rice was engorged with spices and cooked to the perfect consistency. The chicken, beef, and goat meat were very tender and stewed in a loaded sauce that was packed with spices to create a deeply flavoured addition. The staff and waiter were warm and inviting. My waiter offered many recommendations and ensured that those dining were happy with their choices. Overall, my experience was pleasant and the price is an added bonus. I will definitely be back.

This is not a real restaurant. This is a joke. You see those 2.5 stars they have? Someone is showing pity for them. The worst Nigerian food I ever had. I mean its such a joke you will leave laughing.

The worst service ever! I was sitting there for an hour because the server was not able to communicate properly to the owner. I told him I was going to use a coupon I had purchased. I gave him the order and stated he would run it through his boss. While reading my book i thought he had followed up with the owner already. After an hour I finally asked if the food was coming and they said ‘what food?’ Clearly do not go here unless you want to wait for a long time. This plus sucks! !!!

This is truly a unique restaurant. It doesn’t have the traditional services that a sit down restaurant would have but the unique taste of a foreign country to makes up for that. I gave them a three star because sometimes service is a little spotty and the wait for your food could be long however the friendliness of the staff makes up for that. The restaurant is also a little cramped, so is the washroom. But I will go back again I might just carry it out next time.

So my dad and I keep trying to go to Ben’s Noodle and Rice on Wednesdays, which is stupid because that’s the only day they are closed.
Attempting to go to Siam Noodle and Rice instead on Wednesday ¹¹⁄₂₇ resulted in our parking a few blocks off Sheridan and getting a good whiff of something goaty and delicious! That something turned out to be B&Q. With a lingering regret for the lost potential of Thai green papaya salad, we let the scent lure us into B&Q instead, despite the fact that we had no idea what we were doing.
B&Q is Nigerian, a relaxed, small place with the menu offerings written both on the walls and on the menu. A team of ladies took care of us, one whose shift ended right after taking our order, but we didn’t mind because she had been so helpful and kind about us not knowing what anything was.
They were out of a few things but substituted according to their taste (as I requested, since I couldn’t adequately judge substitutions).
My favorite was the codfish in egusi stew. It was extremely tender, with surprisingly few bones for the cut we got, and it was soaking in this vegetably health cocktail of deliciousness.
My dad’s favorite was the goat, as usual, but he kindly allowed me to suck out most of the marrow. The meat was not the tenderest or the most tough — it lay somewhere in the middle — but the flavor was excellent and aromatic, and definitely the source of the scent that had brought us in.
Pounded yam seemed to exist essentially to mop up sauce and kill spice (of which there was a respectable amount).
The standard black-​eyed peas and plantains kept the meal from being a stomach-​leadening meat-​fest.
We tried some kind of mystery non-​alcoholic malt drink. It was weird. Not the good kind of weird. But it’s bottled and mass-​produced somewhere else and not the restaurant’s fault.
The price on our bill bore no relation to the prices listed on the menu. It was way too low — $ 30 for three of us. They may have given us a break because they were out of so many things we ordered. I hope that was what happened and they didn’t inadvertently make a math error and stiff themselves! $ 30 was more than reasonable for the stomach-​stuffing amount of food we got.