African American Restaurant Maryway

• Cuisine(s): African
  Hours: Daily 10am-11pm
• Price: $
  Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
• Parking: No Parking

Description

This splendid Senegalese still cooks with palm oil, and the national dish of cheb arrives tinted a brilliant red-orange. The tiny grains of broken rice are heaped with eggplant, carrot, cabbage, yuca, and fried fish, and if you ask the cook, she'll give you a dab of pima-a red pepper paste-to make your cheb hotter. The mafe, a thick stew of lamb in peanut sauce, with a phantom smoky flavor, is also exemplary. Finally, on a warm Saturday afternoon we also tried a dish the cook called sauce chicken, which didn't seem very Senegalese, but quickly disappeared nonetheless.