Lagos for foodies

Best restaurants

Lagos eats loudly. The city's restaurant map runs from Victoria Island's steady service floors to Lekki's late kitchens that don't close until the first buses roll, from Ikeja office-hour steakhouses to Yaba's daylight-only jollof counters where the pot governs the queue. The 12 rooms below are chosen for what a visitor needs: a verified address that a driver can find, opening hours that hold, and a kitchen with a point of view worth the trip across the bridges. The list leans on Victoria Island and Lekki because that is where the density is, but it makes room for Ikeja and the Yaba end of the mainland because the city is not one dinner. Expect Lebanese, Thai, French, Nigerian, Chinese and steak, sometimes on the same street, occasionally in the same building. Read the hours before you set out; Lagos traffic decides more meals than any menu.