January 18, 2023
Nok by Alara, (V.I, Lagos) 12A Akin Olugbade St, Victoria Island, Lagos | Phone | Instagram Nok by Alara is an African restaurant in Victoria Island that serves a variety of traditional Nigerian dishes; I visited to try their infamous Abula. The atmosphere was not bad but the air condition wasn’t working, so it was quite hot. But they improvised with fans and some stopped working. AMALA I ordered the infamous Abula. Most people in the restaurant were also eating amala, so I guess it is a famous signature food. I had it with assorted meat, cow leg, and extra gbegiri. […]
January 8, 2018
Nok by Alara 12 Akin Olugbade Street, Victoria Island, Lagos 0908 561 4815 Nok by Alara has been around for a while and for some reason every effort to check this place out always had some sort of comma. Thankfully, Visa Restaurant Week came around with set discounted prices for Lunch and Dinner saving me some coins. Nok by Alara describes itself as a contemporary African restaurant giving African food an innovative twist. When this first opened, I kept wondering how fine dining African food was going to work and finally had the opportunity to eat here during the […]
June 17, 2016
The experience today from a reader is on Nok by Alara. Nok featured in one of the Foodie in Lagos Tales here. Catch up on previous experiences and see here for background on this column. Foodie in Lagos Tales are independent reviews posted anonymously by individuals who want to share the good, the bad and the ugly. These posts are undiluted and are not the views of Foodie in Lagos NOK by Alara “NOK. It’s not okay to to serve this kind of food. To bring it out cold and in ridiculous portions. I went for ‘after work’ dinner […]