African Restaurant

• Cuisine(s): African
  Hours: 12p.m.-9p.m.; daily.
  Price: $
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, check
  Features: Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: None
  Parking: No Parking

Description

When it comes to foods from Africa, Seattle is steeped in Ethopian cooking. But this simple, spare spot in a strip mall on Aurora specializes in cuisine from Senegal and Gambia. The friendly staff can help negotiate your culinary road map, but the menu is pretty short, so the journey's straightforward. Start with a yassa, a grilled chicken with a sweet, sauteed onion stew and then hang a right at the domada, a peanut concoction. Dishes get a flavor boost from being marinated in vibrant herbs and spices, a nod to the colonial French that once occupied this part of the world. Most customers grab orders to go here.