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789 Franklin Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11238

718-221-8681

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Village Voice
Recommended
Best Guinean
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): African

Price: $
Features: Takeout

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
Parking: No Parking

Description

The leaf-based sauces of Guinea are indeed thrilling, like what Popeye shot into his mouth, only better. Whether made with sweet-potato leaves, spinach, or manioc foliage at Fatima, these stockfish-accented sauces provide verdant and pungent moisture for the huge plate of Uncle Ben's that's the focus of an African meal. Or go bright orange with chicken in palm oil sauce.

2011 | Best Guinean

Not New Guinea in the South Pacific, but Old Guinea on the West African coast, a country where leaf-based sauces served with rice form the heart of the cuisine. The most accessible of restaurants hailing from Guinea is Fatima (named after the Islamic moniker of Mother Mary), in a Crown Heights neighborhood becoming rapidly engulfed in hipsterism. Please help it survive by patronizing it. 789 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn (11238) More »
2008 | Guinean

If you really want to go green, we recommend the leaf-based sauces at Crown Heights's Fatima, a chill restaurant where entr�es begin with a Kilimanjaro of polished rice, over which is poured a lamb-dotted sauce de feuilles made with sweet-potato leaves. More »
2004 | Greatest Guinean

The leaf-based sauces of Guinea are indeed thrilling, like what Popeye shot into his mouth, only better. Whether made with sweet-potato leaves, spinach, or manioc foliage at FATIMA, these stockfish-accented sauces provide verdant and pungent moisture for the huge plate of Uncle Ben's that's the focus of an African meal. More »

Nice Rice

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, March 23, 2004

Guinea is one of the world's great rice-loving nations, and most meals at Fatima begin with a huge serving of it. The grain isn't tossed onto the plate pell-mell, but carefully sculpted into a mound that extends all the way to the edge. This isn't... More »

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thevillagevoicebestof | New York, NY | 84 Reviews

| Sun, May 10, 2009

If you really want to go green, we recommend the leaf-based sauces at Crown Heights's Fatima, a chill restaurant where entrees begin with a Kilimanjaro of polished rice, over which is poured a lamb-dotted sauce de feuilles made with sweet-potato leaves.