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Review by Tom O'Riordan |
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Picture a restaurant that attacks your tastebuds with authentic African/Caribbean cuisine, that is served when its good and ready and has a feeling of a dinner party in your own home.... that's Etha's Afro Caribbean Kitchen in the heart of Hampton Hill.
Starters such as salt fish cakes, sweet potato chips with homemade chili sauce and pickled red snapper set you off on a colourful mish mash of flavours and textures, that have you trying everybody else's to discover if theirs is as tasty.
Main courses, including Ackee and prawns, Jerk Chicken, Kofta curry, and the house special of goat and lamb stew with couscous are complemented with traditional vegetables of amongst others; dasheens, okra and yams.
Home made desserts include coconut ice cream, nutty banana, and my particular favourite, sweet potato cake swimming on a dish of rum.
Take your own booze with you and tap your foot to the African rhythms that underscore the conversation. The atmosphere is unpretentious, laidback and, with only seating for up to 30 people, very intimate.
For my table of eight, the bill came to a total of £166.00 - and that included a tip! The service is very slow but that's part of the attraction, chat away and let the food be a good reason to break off and gasp at the feast before your eyes. Evening meals are only served on a Friday and Saturday night (the 'Kitchen' is a cafe during the day), so booking is essential.
So go on, get a bag full of booze from Threshers, a load of mates and enjoy a restaurant where you can tell it has been lovingly prepared by the husband and wife team - she is from Sierra Leone, he is from Isleworth, now if that is not a heady mix of culinary cultures I dont know what is!!!!
See you there!!!
Address: Etha's Afro Caribbean Kitchen, 6 New Broadway, Hampton Hill.
Restaurant Tel: 020 8977 1969