Top 10 food guides to travelling within Nigeria.

Enjoying Nigeria’s local cuisine is a must-do for any visitors. Each state in Nigeria is well known for their particular traditional food which any visitor must not fail to enjoy and experience. In this page, you will be able to find 10 top food guides for travellers travelling within Nigeria because no journey is complete without experiencing the cuisine in the locations.

i. Warri cuisines:  Travelling around the Niger-Delta region won’t be fun if the cuisine and what they have to offer there is not experienced. The natives are known as experts in the making of a traditional soup known as “banga soup” which is made from ripe palm fruits – there is beef or fish banga soup. They are also good at making pounded yam, and it should not be missed because this is wonderful and tasty.

ii. Enugu cuisines:  Enugu is located in the South-East region of Nigeria, and the people are the best at making “abacha”, sometimes known by many Nigerians as African salad. This African salad is prepared with dried fish and many other local ingredients that make the food very tasty. It is highly nutritious and widely prepared by other tribes, though very popular among the people of Enugu. With Enugu cuisines, you also find many varieties of food and soups as well as the local wines of which the most common is the palm-wine.

iii. Imo State cuisine: Many Nigerians crave to have a taste of the popular Imo soup “Ofe Owerri” meaning Owerri soup. It is actually the most expensive among other soups. Other soups they specialize in include bitter-leaf soup, and melon soup etc which they enrich with stock fish.

iv. Akwa Ibom cuisine: Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria provides many attractive centres and if you happen to visit, stuffing your stomach with food is necessary so as to enjoy and have an awesome experience of the state’s local cuisines. Try the local “afang soup” at the Le Meridian Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort.

v. Cross River State cuisine:  There are local Cross River State dishes that travellers cannot afford to miss while on visit. There are also many restaurants that serve various meals for foreigners who might not be interested in local food. The most popular local cuisine is the “edikang-ikong” which is very nutritious and delicious.

vi. Ibadan cuisine:  Both foreign and local delicacies are served in Ibadan restaurants. Foreign foods like the Chinese dishes, French meals etc are served in the best restaurants in the heart of the town. Local delicacies like the yam porridge (asaro), cooked beans and fried plantain (dodo ati ewa sise) etc are also served.

vii. Anambra cuisine:  Onitsha, located in Anambra State is well visited for commercial purposes and they have good restaurants where local foods especially the bitter-leaf soup and pounded fufu are served.

viii. Port Harcourt restaurants: The capital of Rivers States accommodates many foreigners as well as many other Nigerians who deal in crude oil business. Therefore, they have good restaurants that serve both foreign and local delicacies.

ix. Lagos restaurant guide: Lagos State is the most commercial city in Africa. Lagos is very popular among foreigners and as the only place they seem to know, they expect to be well treated and hope to enjoy Nigeria’s food. In case of foreign foods, there are many awesome restaurants that serve different foreign foods. Foreign foods such as Chinese food, Indian food, and Italian food etc. The most popular restaurants that serve foreign dishes to mention but a few in Lagos include the Viceroy restaurant in Lagos that specialises in Indian foods; Bar Campione is the best in Italian dishes with cocktail drink; and others are Cactus restaurant, and Ocean basket restaurant etc all in Lagos.

x. Where to eat in Abuja: Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, is the most beautiful and the most attractive state in Nigeria and the seat of political and government power. Here foreign dishes are really expensive but worth any amount a traveller will be paying. At Maitama, Garki district and many other districts in the heart of the town specialize are native dishes as well as foreign dishes you’d love to savour for days.