Dakar Restaurant

• Cuisine(s): African
  Hours: Sun 12pm-5pm, Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Sat 12pm-1am
  Price: $$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Delivery, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Brunch, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted, Recommended
  Parking: Street

Description

More night club than restaurant, this Clinton Hill Senegalese regales you with African high life or American jazz while you eat in a room that can barely contain the band and six tables. The other evening we enjoyed a Cameroonian ensemble as we downed big plates of food barely reconstructed from its Senegalese originals: cheb, a sort of paella often called the national dish; mafe, chicken in rich peanut sauce that packs some heat; and caldou, a lemony porgy stew piled architecturally on the plate. Service is slow, but the food is damn good.