From Ghana to Nigeria via Senegal, Kuti unveils its pan-African cuisine near Strasbourg Saint-Denis and it’s a treat.
That. If this name is not unknown to you, it is because you have already gone to enjoy Montreuil, because that is where the first restaurant To opened its doors last year. From now on, there is no need to go to the other side of the ring road, Kuti has opened an intramural address in Strasbourg Saint-Denis !
Joyful cellars at lunch, plates to sharenatural wines and cocktails at dinner, and as a common thread, a certain idea of African gastronomy modern but who does not forget to pay homage to family kitchens and culinary cultures. It must be said that the founder of the address, the Franco-Cameroonian Antoine Lecocqtook the time to travel across Africa for 7 months to meet the country’s cooks and in search of traditions and age-old know-how.
The result is a urban pan-African cuisineof Ghana au Nigeria passing through the Senegal. With a point of honor placed on African street food, even in the decoration of this restaurant open to the street, inspired by chop bars Ghanaian.
Here, no mafé or yassa, but rather a contemporary vision of African gastronomy in the image of time (a amazing nigerian pancake with fermented rice flour, halfway between flat bread and pancake) which, while it is traditionally offered as an accompaniment to a stew, at Kuti finds the center of the plate, available in a sweet and salty.
We thus savor the astonishing masaFried Chicken (€11 a pair) with its fried chicken as juicy as it is crispy, its ginger-baobab mayonnaise, its piri-piri sauce, its hibiscus-infused pickles and its plantain chips; or even the time Yassa (12€ a pair) with terribly tender shredded lamb, yassa onions, allocos (fried plantains), piri-piri sauce, plantain chips and penja pepper to give a little kick to the whole.
On the comfort side, That also offers the kondrea dish of plantain stew from Cameroon (here in a vegetarian version with peppers, onions, wild garlic, coconut milk and habanero pepper), the Kenyan salad (€6) composed of mango, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and mint; as well as the beef plantain balls, fritters made from potatoes, plantains and ground beef, fried with gari breadcrumbs (cassava semolina) and accompanied by a homemade BBQ-baobab sauce.
Yes, yes Yassa Burger (14€), served on the adjacent table, caught our eye, we nevertheless opted for the Jungle Beat (€14), a reinterpretation of the mafé version of fried chicken, with yellow rice, barely sweet peanut sauce, allocos, spinach and Penja pepper. THE petits plats mijotés There are also beef or vegetarian versions. Note also a broad proposal for vegetarian dishes and vegan for those concerned, as well as spicy dishes for the adventurous who like to challenge themselves.
Petri of a great freedom of toneKuti mixes as desired, in the same dish, inspirations, preparations, condiments, sauces and techniques from different African nationswhich gives the whole a palette of unique flavors and textures. What a treat!
To continue the journey, desserts – banana and chocolate fritters (7€), masa choco and peanut butter (9€), panna cotta with hibiscus coulis (6€) – are ideal, but unfortunately we had no more room left, the dishes being served in very generous quantities.
But don’t miss the bissap juice house (5€) or ginger juice house (€5), both unsweetened but absolutely enchanting. With Bomaye a few streets away, That is already establishing itself as a unmissable pan-African address of the capital.
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