Walking down King Street in Newtown, one of Sydney's oldest suburbs, one's senses can become completely overwhelmed. Despite its colourful boutiques and a seemingly endless array of second-hand book stores, it's the tastebuds that really get the work-out with the strip's vast line of culinary delights. I've walked King Street many times and have counted over 140 pubs, restuarants and cafes along it.

These never stay static either. Constantly changing, upgrading, renaming and expanding one can always expect a new gastronomic adventure to greet them when visiting King Street.

Well, I'm determined to end that and achieve the near impossible: to feast from every restaurant/cafe/bar on King Street and live to tell the tale.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

African Feeling

@ 1/501 King Street, Newtown

When first we passed this place, we thought it was closed. Dimly lit, it took a while for this place to fill up on a Wednesday night. But come 7pm it became pretty packed.

Decorated with patterned tablecloths and artwork that covered the walls from floor to ceiling, the feeling is definitely African (excuse the pun). We were served promptly however were waiting near an hour for food. There was only one chef working that night and try as he did to get the food from pan to plate efficiently, many of us questioned the waitress (again, only one for the evening) on when we could expect our meals to arrive. She was extremely apologetic and it was hard to be angry or place the blame on anyone for the situation.

What I loved about the menus was not only the variety (food from across the country from East Africa to West Africa to Ghana to Nigeria) but the fact that they divulge in mentioning where each dish comes from. On our order was Kpoff-Kpoff dumplings (Nigeria), Ladies Fingers (West Africa), Kuku Na Nazi (East Africa) and Tanzanian Chai and Kenyan Tea.












The meals felt lightly flavoured and although the portions didn't seem huge, they were immensely filling. The dumplings were wonderfully warm and the ladies fingers nice and spicey. If you're a fan of coconut, the kuku na nazi is not to be missed and is pleasantly addictive.


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