Restaurant Review: Nok by Alara

12a Akin Olugbade Street,

Victoria Island Lagos.

09085614815

Hello everyone, hope you had an awesome weekend, mine was great. During the weekend I went for Brunch at Nok by Alara with my two sisters and uncle. Its indeed a really beautiful place.

The female waiters are dressed in iro and buba, beautiful idea.

food menu

The food wasn't as expensive as I expected it would be although its not also cheap. 

drinks menu

I had the Peanut Crusted Fried Chicken thighs with sweet potato pancakes. I really enjoyed the chicken but I scared of what it would taste coated with peanuts so I requested for it to be plain. It very hot and delicious. The pancake too was okay, I give it a 6/10. For drinks, I had the passion sunrise and it was A*, purfecto. 

My elder sister, as a copy cat, also ordered what I was having. My little sister had the Agege bread French toast with Homemade Honey and fresh fruit. She was quite disappointed when she got her order as it was really small compared to what she was expecting, also, she was very hungry. My uncle had the Nok chopped salad with eggs, chicken, turkey bacon, avocado and red beans. I bet he enjoyed his meal but he complained about the waiter not being well trained.

What a beautiful restaurant. Very nice place to take pictures. I also feel it would be a very nice place to go on date.

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I dont advise you to come here if you're famished. We waited over 20 minutes for our food as the food is made from scratch.

nok art

The environment is lovely decorated potraying the Nok culture of the Hausas.
You really should visit the restaurant. On the average, you should spend about 15,000 naira. Not bad innit? 

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My very good friend Anike Fisher of https://westcoastcity.wordpress.com/ just started writing recently. Below is one of her recent writeups. I seem to really like this one. Kindly read and feel free to post comments.






To the days I never thought I would get through: 
turns out I did. 
Bloody knees and scared wrists are enough proof of the battles I have fought 
mostly within myself. When always caught between self hatred and learning to love myself, it turns out hatred was always stronger. In the tug of war of emotions, hatred had more people on their team, more reasons to belittle my worth, more excuses to not try and so I did not try. 
I began to settle for second best, stared at my reflection in the mirror long enough to understand that there are things quite hard to love here; 
understanding doesn’t always make it better 
sometimes it is just harder, 
whatever they said to me about acceptance turned out to be a lie 
so I accepted that there are things about me far too complicated to really love 
and that didn’t make it better 
at the end of the day, I am still going unloved on the days when my bones are breaking beneath the weight of my desire to be deemed worthy enough of something so beautiful 
at the end of the day, I still haven’t quite learned about what it takes to love myself.

Hello everyone, its been a while since I posted anything on here. Hope you are having a great week! I'm currently working for the holiday and its not easy at all, honestly don't know how people do the 8am to 6pm job! I should really enjoy my life as a student , its much much much better than this STRUGGLE lol. I'm seriously looking forward to the weekend. Hope your week is much better than mine.