Abidjan

The oil was mix with fish and chicken. Limited amount of choice. I felt the food was not well cook.

Very good food. Slow but friendly service. Food it served on a tray (one serving at a time) with the silverware. Worth trying! Even the doubters in my group loved it. Food was well prepared and spiced nicely. Also the ginger based drink is very refreshing/​tangy and I am very happy the cook suggested it!

If you love African food go there for take out or pick up. Not a place to dine in! The fish palm oil sauce and peanut sauce is just bones sometimes but ask for some more.
Nice guy and good overall!
Speaking as an Angolan reviewer!

I’ve walked past this place a hundred times before finally deciding to have dinner here with my boyfriend. We got the grilled fish, okra sauce, fufu (a satisfyingly elastin mound of starch), tomato rice and ginger juice. I don’t have a point of reference for comparison to other Ivorian food, so all I can say is it was pretty good! The service was a little strange. but very nice. It seemed like they were probably more used to take out customers. The fish was delicious but riddled with tiny bones so one should be careful eating it. I don’t know where else to find fufu so I reckon I’ll be back for more in the future.

Love the tomato rice with fried chicken (it’s local fowl so it’s a lot skinnier that regular chicken BUT it’s good! lol).
This is our go-​to dinner spot after work sometimes. Very close to office & home.
Recommended for down-​to-​earth people who just want to chill and eat. Good ginger drink too-​sweet! Oh, they also serve alkaline water :) big plus! you should go!
Support local business!

A part of my family is from Ivory Coast and the food from this country is AMAZING. But I was so disappointed by this restaurant. The service was sooooo long, the mood is weird. The futu was just ok, the grilled chicken was almost burnt, the chicken in the peanut sauce had way more bones than meat, the plantains were too greasy… They even messed up the RICE ! Come on African restaurant which doesn’t know how to cook rice?
Again I would advise everybody to try ivorian food, but not from this place. Cheap ingredients badly cooked and not so cheap.

I have had fried tilapia and yesterday rice, which was delicious. There peanut sauce with pounded yam was my favorite. The ginger juice, very refreshing. I can not wait to return back.

Thank you Unilocal for giving me the courage to stop by because I walk past Abidjan every day as it is around the corner from my apartment but never ventured in. Needless to say, I have ordered from them many times as this point.
Cheap and delicious with plenty of adventurous and non adventurous choices. My favorite still has to be the jerk chicken and plantains plate. A small is $ 5 and the regular portion is $ 10 with guaranteed leftovers.
The staff is friendly and accommodating and more than willing to help you figure out what to try.
5 stars!

Had I not read about this place on Unilocal,I can safely say that I never would’ve been brave enough to try this. I stumbled in one night to order carryout, and ordered the jerk chicken and plantains. 10 minutes later, my food was done and I scurried back to my room to dive in. I wasn’t even ready.
The jerk chicken is absolutely phenomenal. I paid a total of $ 10 for my order (+ tip, the guy behind the counter was super nice), and got a massive feast of plantains to go with it. Highly recommended.

Great food at great prices! The jerk chicken is delicious and so is the foutou. If you are looking for something that’s out of the box and unique then here is the place to come. Came with a large group and tried the fish sauce, peanut sauce, okra sauce, grilled lamb, and fried plain taints. They give you a ton of plantains that are perfectly fried. The lamb was well cooked and the fish stew was very flavorful and complex. This is my second time here and I would definitely come back. The bill for 4 people and came to only 46 dollars which is a steal.

I love Unilocal.
I taught a yoga class down the block at Teleportation Arts, and then dragged 80% of the class with me for dinner. It was empty save for two non-​dining but avid TV watching gentlemen, and the photos of the food plastered to the window were deadly-​looking, but I had a good feeling about the place. Everything about the establishment is comment-​worthy and fantastic, but I’m tired, so suffice it to say that the owner-​waiter-​sous chef-​busboy-​menu interpreter is the most earnest and helpful man, and that the food, service, décor, and whole experience are authentic and decidedly un-​American, in the most interesting way.
Go there, order something weird, don’t worry about it being empty, peruse the bootlegged films, be nice to the man even if he is playing with electronics and not kissing your ass, and DEFINITELY get the fried plantains and sorrel juice. Amazing stuff. SO cheap by the way.

Service was horrible. I walked in, knowing I definitely wanted ginger juice and maybe something else if it looked appetizing. No one said anything to me. The place was completely empty. The guy behind the counter had his headphones in and was doing something on his phone, too busy to look up. Awesome. I had to wait maybe 3 minutes for service from a woman from the back. Why?!
First off, this place feels cold in the design/​vibe sense. I wouldn’t ever bring anyone here to eat, it’s that type of place. They also sell old kung-​fu movies, which is also super weird. This is not a Blockbuster, right? Then stop that.
I wanted to like this place and support, but instead I got my ginger juice and practically jogged out of there. Nope, nope, nope.

‘EVERYBODY LOVES OUR FOOD’…
thats what it said on their menu as well as on their website. However, I didn’t LOVE their food but thought it was boring, wayy too simple, and plain (maybe I ordered the wrong thing). It’s a little neighborhood restaurant serving West Indian or Ivory Coast cuisine (I asked the owner) in Bushwick. When I entered the place aaround 330pm, place was empty, I was the only person eating. Interior is simple, not much of an atmosphere or décor and a large screen TV was on Disney Channel for some odd reason.
Owner seemed pre-​occupied with his laptop and seemed more happily into the computer than paying attention to me (although he was a nice person) since I stood in front of the counter and he didn’t notice me for a good 30 seconds. I ordered the Peanut Sauce Dish as well as the Foutou since I read an article that they were really good. After I sat down, the owner brought me a glass and a JUG of Spring water! WTF? LOLZ Okaayyy (See picture!!). I also ordered the homeamade Sorrel Juice.
My thoughts on the food:
Peanut Sauce dish is like a cross between a stew and curry. The meat that was contained in the dish was chicken with all the bones still in it. It was an OK dish and I think the dish itself was 20% chicken and 80% peanut sauce. Meh~ not my thang~
Fotou is a staple food of West Africa made by boiling starchy vegetables like cassava, yams, or plaintains and then pounding them into dough-​like consistency. It is supposed to be eaten by taking a small ball of it in one’s fingers and then dipping it into a soup or sauce that is usually accompanied with. I tried to eat my peanut sauce dish like that but gave up after a while, sorry afterall I’m Korean and we use spoons for both soup and rice and chopsticks or forks for other food items, it’s in the blood, can’t help it!
Sorrel juice is a red, tangy juice made from petals of the sorrel plant. It’s a little sour and similar to Hibiscus Drink which was refreshing. I heard it also has antioxidants, vitamin C and A, magnesium, calcium, and potassium which definitely sounds like a winner to me over soft drinks
When I finished, went up to the counter, and again stood in front of it for a good 2 minutes before the owner acknowledged my presence. Sir, I have no idea what you’re watching but I mean at least receive my money!
I didn’t feel the need to pay tips (as really there is «NO» wait service here) and the owner didn’t make me feel like I had to pay it either lol. This place was a one time visit. Nothing special nor did the owner guy speak much English to have a conversation or what not.
DO NOT BRING YOUR DATE here… well maybe yeah if you’re date is West African or from the West Indies and miss the food back home
**CASH-​ONLY**
**RESTROOMS ONLY FOR PAYING CUSTOMERS**

One of the best meals I’ve had in New York City, Abidjan deserves more than 4 reviews. It is a trek to get out here in Bushwick, but well worth it. I met a couple friends for dinner on a Sunday night and we had to ring the buzzer when we got there. After we were let inside, we went to the counter to check out the menu with all the pictures. Between the 3 of us, we had 2 barbecued fish and attieke combos and 1 chicken in peanut stew. I also ordered the ginger juice, which was just ok. When we sat down, no one was in the restaurant, and a Gospel/​Praise program was blaring on the old big screen TV. (By the time we left around 8, the place was nearly ¾ full!) We were also brought a gallon jug of water. Our food came out quickly, but not too quick to be suspect. It was my first time eating a whole fish, bones and all, so I was a little unsure how to go about it especially without a knife. It comes with a large side of attieke, which I’ve seen described as sort of in between rice and cous-​cous, and the fish is dressed in onions, cucumbers, and some sort of vinegar. As soon as I got some meat off the bone, it was absolutely delicious. Very tender and zesty, had to pick a few bones out of my teeth, and mixed with the attieke just a really amazing tasting dish. International food has been some of the best-​tasting I’ve had in this city, whether its rotisserie chicken at a Dominican diner, fish stew at a Burmese place, or a barbecued whole fish at Abidjan, one of New York’s only restaurants serving the cuisine of Cote d’Ivoire.

This place was not what I expected. Cheap ingredients & they overcharged me.

For the price, Abidjan is second-​to-​none.
For the experience, Abidjan is even better. When you order fish and plantains you initiate a feast. The waiter, oftentimes the same guy as the cashier and sous chef, will bring out a whole fish, eyes and all. It’s tasty. Super tasty. They will also offer rice pudding, ginger beer or a Nollywood film to accompany your meal.
If you ever make it to the kitchen, which is hard, you will notice a few things I find terribly appetizing. A short black woman from Ivory Coast or somewhere close is back there in her apron running the show. Her cooking is delectable. There are also chicken bodies. That’s right, whole chickens, slow cooking. The best part about them is they’re small and normal sized chickens. I suspect that source chickens that they do not use growth hormones or antibiotics for that reason.
There is also rarely a soul, so you can be as loud as you want, or enjoys a private meal.
Overall, one of my favorite places in Brooklyn to eat. Without question.

I always like running into a place like this by accident. Was literally just randomly strolling down Broadway, feeling more than a little peckish, and not really in the mood for one of the fifteen dozen Latin chicken places I passed by. Imagine my surprise… WTF WEST AFRICAN FOOD???
I’m no connoisseur of the cuisine of the Ivory Coast, but I do know the food was really really tasty, and in copious quantities for the price. The owner is extremely friendly, and very honest and forthcoming about the ingredients used (my friend is a vegetarian and needed to know what was in what) – he should know because he also appeared to be at least one of the cooks. And our waiter.
Tomato rice… yummy. Lamb chop… yummy. Jerk chicken (which I’m guessing isn’t a West African staple)…yummy. Ginger juice… OMG yummy.

I think this may be a new restaurant, as the picture on google street view of this location shows the awning of a restaurant called «Le Conakry.»
Abidjan is a small diner-​like restaurant with about a half-​dozen tables and a tv playing up on the wall at the front.
The server/?owner, who was very friendly, seemed to pitch in with preparing the food, as he disappeared into the kitchen for several minutes after taking orders.
Prices are dirt cheap (eg $ 6 for a filling meal for dinner).
The cuisine is presumably Ivorian, going by the restaurant name.
I tried a fish in palm oil sauce (the sauce was meat-​based), and chicken kandja (okra sauce), both with rice. Both were very good (the okra sauce was delicious), although the meat in the palm oil sauce was a bit gamier than I usually like (and I usually like really gamey meat!).
Not a glamorous destination, but a place to find a good meal if you are in the area.