The Calabash African Restaurant

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Starters

  • Samosa

    from £4.00
    Deep fried thin, tri-shaped pastry filled with seasoned lamb OR seasonal vegetables, served with a slice of lemon
  • Peri peri Chicken Wings

    £5.00
    Flamed grilled marinated peri peri chicken wings, served with salad
  • Cassava (Manioc) (V)

    £5.00
    Deep fried Cassava slices, served with a hot & sweet chilli sauce
    Vegetarian
  • Githeri Salad

    £5.00
  • Chicken livers

    £5.00
    Warmly prepared and served with bread

Main Meals

  • Mchuzi Wa Kuku (Chicken Curry)

    £11.95
    Simmered portions of chicken with mixed vegetables & a special East African blend of spices. Served with rice.
  • Khima Curry

    £11.00
    A Tanzanian style minced lamb curry with mixed vegetables with a blend of African spices. Served with rice.
  • Madodo (V)

    £9.95
    African Kidney Beans stew with tomato, onions capsicum & mixed spices. Served with rice.
    Vegetarian
  • Vegetarian Special (V)

    £12.00
    Spinach slathered in a tomato & peanut butter sauce & served with whole roast plantain.**
    Vegetarian
  • 'The Mama Special' Muriyo wa nyama (V)

    £11.00
    Served with Sadza. succulent portions of lamb cooked with a mixture of spinach & sukuma wiki served with ugali just like Mama makes or seerved with rice.
    Vegetarian
  • Coconut Rice (Wali Wa Nazi) (V)

    from £9.99
    Rice cooked in coconut milk, special blend of spices, mixed vegetables, chicken  and £1 extra for lamb
    Vegetarian
  • Caribbean Goat Curry

    £11.99
    Marinated flavours of curry powder, chopped onion, escallion, garlic, ginger, thyme and scotch bonnet slowely cooked with chunks of goat meat and potatoes
  • Zim Oxtail Soup

    £13.00

Specials

  • Jumbo Tapas

    £100.00
    A delicious taste of African cuisine containing a portion of ugali, mukimo, plantain, coconut rice, nyama choma, kuku choma, khiama curry, spinach, boerewors all superbly flavoured local delicacies with kachumbari (African salsa) & BBQ dip. Sharer enough for Three

Ethiopian & Eritrean

  • Beyayenetu

    £14.99
    A selection of different vegetarian dishes served with injera. Served with salad.
  • Special Tibis

    £13.99
    Sizzling lamb cubes, toasted in a blend of house spices, onions and mixed peppers served with salad and injera

West African

  • Peanut Soup

    £13.00
    Traditional Gambian soup made with meat, tomatoes, peanuts and African spices.** Served with rice or pounded yam
  • Pepper Soup - No Side

    £10.95
    Very spicy soup made with assorted types of meats mostly tripe. Kidneys and Goat meat seasoned with pepper and other spices.
  • Fish Pepper Soup - No Side

    £11.00
  • West African Soup

    from £13.00
    (Served with Rice or Pounded Yam) Hot spiced ground melon seed soup cooked with tripe, goat meat and crayfish. Highly nutritious and very satisfying
  • Jollof Rice Chicken

    £10.00
    Boiled Rice in a tomato sauce & mixed peppers curry, served with fried chicken or pan fried spinach

From The Grill

  • Mshikaki (Bruschette) Skewers Chips

    £11.00
    Flame grilled spiced Lamb, onions & mixed peppers skewers, served with deep fried East African Green Bananas or Chips
  • Kuku Choma (roast chicken) Peri Peri Sauce - Half

    £12.00
    Flame grilled chicken marinated in peri-peri OR reggae-reggae sauce Served with chips & salad
  • The Calabash Mixed Grill

    £15.50
    Portions of mshikaki, chicken wings, nyama choma, mixed peppers & side salad
  • Samaki Choma

    from £11.50
    Deep fried fresh water tilapia fish. Deep fried Tilapia Fish served on a bed of salad with the special calabash fish sauce & slices of lemon

Sides

  • Ugali (V)

    £4.00
    (Sadza, Nshima, Fufu Corn) - Maize meal flour made into a soft mash
    Vegetarian
  • Mukimo (V)

    £5.00
    Traditional Kenyan mash of potatoes, green peas, corn and greens sautéed with onions
    Vegetarian
  • Pounded Yam (V)

    £4.00
    Yam flour cooked into a soft mash
    Vegetarian
  • Pounded Gari (V)

    £4.00
    Yam flour cooked into a soft mash
    Vegetarian
  • Spinach (V)

    £4.00
    Leafy greens sautéed with tomato, red onions and mixed spices
    Vegetarian
  • Sweet Potato Chips

    £5.00
  • Kwanga (V)

    £5.00
    (Manioc) - Fermented Cassava flour mash
    Vegetarian
  • Plantain (V)

    £5.00
    Deep fried Tropical cooking bananas (Yellow plantain).
  • Fried Rice

    £5.00
    Basmati rice fried with onions & mixed peppers, seasoned with special spices
  • Kachumbari

    £3.00
    (African salsa) tomato,onions, coriander and lemon juice (Side not offered with main meals)
  • Chapati

    £5.00
    Unleavened home-made wheat flour flatbread (Side not offered with main meals)
  • Cassava Chips

    £4.00
    Deep fried portions of Cassava

Desserts

  • Cake of the day

    £4.00
  • Murzig Masaai/ Kalenjin desert

    £4.00
  • Sticky Toffee Pudding

    £4.00
    served with Ice Cream
  • Mango Lassi

    £4.00

Beers

  • (Nigerian) Guiness Foreign Extra Stout - 33cl

    age restriction 18 plus
    £3.00
    7.5% ABV
    Vegetarian

Soft Drinks

  • African Fanta - 500ml

    £3.50
  • Malta Guinness - 33cl

    £2.50
  • Coke

    £2.00
  • Diet Coke

    £2.00
  • Irnbru

    £2.00
  • Diet Irnbru

    £2.00
  • Redbull

    £3.00
  • Ginger Beer

    £2.00

About

Osasere
Friday 06 December 2024
Louie
Monday 18 November 2024
Colm
Sunday 10 November 2024
Carrie
Sunday 10 November 2024
Martha
Sunday 20 October 2024
Ordered at 6.40pm, food arrived at 9pm!
Musa
Saturday 12 October 2024
I have previously given Calabash 1 star rating in the past because food was always late, sometimes food itself was poorly cooked and times portions just erratic. Lately food has been on time if not earlier. Consistently well cooked and packaged.
Safina
Saturday 12 October 2024
Viviane
Friday 04 October 2024
Bwalya
Sunday 22 September 2024
That calabash food was terrible sadly
Genevieve
Sunday 15 September 2024
Very disappointed service,

A little bit about us

Welcome to The calabash African Rest

If you have any food allergies, please inform a member of staff

Delivery times

Monday
18:30 - 00:50
Tuesday
18:30 - 00:50
Wednesday
18:30 - 00:50
Thursday
18:30 - 00:50
Friday
12:00 - 00:50
Saturday
12:00 - 01:00
Sunday
12:00 - 00:50