ADVENTURES OF A FOODIE RESIDING IN LAGOS
May 17, 2016
Hello everyone, Just to bring you some of the pictures from our Food Fair and the Lagos Home Show. You can check out the rest of the pictures on our Facebook Page. Too many pictures to share and can’t share them all on here 🙂 PhotoCredit: Lychee Photography & Valerie Ekpo
May 10, 2016
Wow!!! That’s the only word that seems to come out when I think about our Food Fair in Lagos which happened on Sunday. It was amazeballs and was beyond my imagination. It was a massive success thanks to readers and followers of this blog, thank you for coming out and honouring us with your presence. To all our Food & Drink Vendors, Thank you for trusting us, we appreciate you. First scare was the weather because at about 5.30am it was raining proper cats and dogs and all I could think was “oh no!” but God came through and the […]
May 8, 2016
The Foodie in Lagos Food Fair is finally here!! Yay! Trying to sleep but its tough… Well on to it. See I and II of introduction of our vendors to catch up. BISCUITBONEBLOG Been following this account on Instagram for a while and heard some lovely things about her Shaki (Tripe) bites. Yes oh! Toasted Shaki Bites with agege bread. Yummerz! “Biscuitboneblog focuses on fusing African cuisines with different cultures. Our toasted sandwiches are a playful mix of Nigerian, European and Asian techniques”. Menu: **All toasties made with agege bread Shaki Toastie — shaki, tomato […]
May 5, 2016
Yay! We are so excited about our Food Fair together with the Lagos Home Show that is happening this weekend in Lagos. The Food Fair is 3 days away and we are so glad, excited and scared at the same time but its almost here and we are so glad! You will notice we have been spotlighting some of our Food Vendors on Instagram and Twitter and some bits on Snapchat so you have an idea on what to expect. If you missed the introductory part of our “Meet the Vendors” series, see I here WRAP CITY Wrap […]
May 3, 2016
Hey guys, Lagos Food Fair We are so excited to announce the maiden edition of our very own Food Fair. We will be showcasing some of the best Foods in Lagos. The Fair is barely 5 days away! We are in partnership with the curators of the yearly Lagos Home Show – a platform that was founded on the simple principle of ‘encouraging local industry’ especially for home-ware. We’ve always wanted to do a Food Fair where everyone enjoys available samples, tries out new food and ultimately having a Foodie Adventure from awesome vendors. Food Fairs are common in other […]
April 27, 2016
So the giveaway closed this morning at 9.15am because I got caught up with life and could not announce the winner yesterday. *Drum roll* The winner of the meal from Chef Raphael Duntoye is Temilade – Congrats! The rules were so easy though.. Now on to the post of the day, remember we told you that May is the Month of Food and yes yes you got it, Foodie in Lagos is having its own food fair with some of the loveliest food vendors lined up so far. The curators of the Lagos Home Show and Foodie in Lagos […]
April 25, 2016
I have tagged the month of May as the Month of Food because first the #GTBankFoodDrink Fair (see post here) and then the Foodilicious Fair brought to you by the curators of the Lagos Home Show and Foodie in Lagos (see press release here) – those who get the newsletters are in the know so sign up to get the gist when its hot here. Honestly, just buy “agbo jedi jedi” to cleanse before these events. Now on to it, Chef Raphael Duntoye is in Lagos for the GTBank Food & Drink Fair and one lucky Foodie in Lagos reader will get […]
April 15, 2016
TGIF!!! Friday is my best day of the week and with each ending week, we are excited about the month of May. The month of May is an exciting one and the weekends are a hit back to back! We sent out a newsletter yesterday and some of you already know the gist. Should you not want to miss out, you can subscribe here to get updates first hand. On that note, we are gastronomically delighted to announce the GTBank Food & Drink Fair Weekend which is proudly supported by Foodie in Lagos as one of the partners for […]
April 14, 2016
Hard Rock Cafe Lagos Plot No 3 & 4, Block XVI, Water Corporation Road, VI, Landmark Village 0908 198 8888 Finally went to Hard Rock Cafe, Lagos (“HRC”) which started operations in December, 2015 on Valentine’s Day and surprisingly even though we did not make a reservation, it was not as busy as we thought and so we did not have to wait in line – Yay. FIL was quite late to the party (2 months late which aint bad) but quite glad that Lagos got its very own Hard Rock Cafe and hopefully this might pave the way for other brands to […]
March 31, 2016
Foodie in Lagos was invited to a new menu tasting by La Taverna Restaurant which serves a mix of Italian, Spanish and Chilean dishes. La Taverna is also popular with its Pizza in Lagos. I was sure to go with an empty stomach and when you get to the end, you will see why. Those on snapchat got the full cover on the experience at La Taverna. You can use the Snapcode here to add us on Snapchat or by the username ‘FoodieinLagos’. I had also tweeted about the new menu tasting so follow on Twitter here not to miss […]
March 23, 2016
Hey Hey!! 4-day work week yay! To celebrate the short week, decided to go with some Deli Special Pasta from Goodness Gracious Gourmet (“GGG”). Placed my order for lunch from Goodness Gracious Gourmet (“GGG”) last night because I did want to carry last and find out that orders foe the day had been maxed out. My order came right on time by 12pm today which I was totally happy about. GGG is one of my lunchtime favs and I honestly don’t know why I haven’t shared reviews on their food here (checks archives and drafts) but I’ve shared […]
March 9, 2016
The experiences today from readers are on Casa Lydia and Urban Fuxion Food Truck in Lagos. Catch up on previous experiences and see here for background on this column 🙂 Urban Fuxion “To the Main Foodie This is my review of Urban Fuxion, the popular food truck in Lagos. My colleague and i stopped by the food truck on our way back to the office after a meeting. The meeting had lasted about 3 hours so we were extremely famished and UF was the first thing that came to mind. I ordered the classic burger with […]