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A West Oakland coffee shop where the jollof rice is serious business: sharply spiced Nigerian rice with heat that keeps building, served with caramelized plantains and your choice of stewed chicken, oxtail, or goat. Okra and egusi soups arrive with fufu. Seating is tight and the wait can stretch, so bring patience and a friend you want to impress with how good Oakland gets. The San Francisco Chronicle put it on their best Oakland restaurants list.
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- San Francisco Chronicle Best restaurants in Oakland
One number, weighted & current 62
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Jollof rice
“Jolly Jolly Coffee is a joyous, unpretentious site for jollof rice, the intensely flavored Nigerian rice dish.”
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Caramelized plantains
“It comes with caramelized plantains and can be vegan, or you can add saucy, stewed meats like chicken, oxtail and goat.”
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Fufu
“Other worthwhile West African classics, like okra or egusi (melon seed) soup, prominently feature the pounded yam known as fufu.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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