Funmi Cafe

First off, I know that a few others have light years better aquaintance with this new establishment, but I'd like to invoke the dialogue because I didn't open up my opportunity appropriately tonight.

Stopped in for carry-out and parked in the rear lot. If you do this, take note that you can push through a couple of gates (if you're looking at the facade - to the right) and reach their front door - trickier than you think (otherwise you think you have to cross over lots and come out to the side of Homemade Pie Kitchen).

This place bills itself as Modern Nigerian. I recall looking at the website after mention of them on here and seeing an American Diner alternative to their concept, but didn't see a trace of it tonight. Got a carry out menu and they must have dropped the non-nigerian swag.

They offer a streamlined menu with 9.99 lunch specials (include bev) and their dinners range fron 9.99 to 14.99. Be warned, almost everything I wanted was 14.99, and the menu descriptions are sparse. I believe the information is intended to come from the server, and the one I spoke with tonight really wanted to help - he would have taken me to school, I felt (but not insistently, just waited for my cue). Unfortunately I was looking for carry-out / in a "just here to see the menu and have a taste" state of mind. I ordered a $10 soup with my choice of protein (goat, fish, beef, pork, chx, tofu, bean) from the app menu. It was hot as hell, prepared on the spot with my goat choice and minced mint, and it coughed up a little spice. I bet they can do better if asked.


Did I mention how nice they were? While I waited (with my entertaining smartphone in hand - pretty sure I wasn't impatient) I was given a bowl of "puff puffs". Similar to beignets with nutmeg and gran sugar instead of confection. Sweet gesture likely because of my cuteness.

This is a place to sit and experience, I'm pretty sure. Warm welcomes, Funmi!

[Robin Garr]

We ate there the other night and had a great time! Really nice people, and the dishes we got - pepper soup with beef, jollof rice with chicken and a goat stew with collards and golf-ball size rounds of cassava - were all most excellent. Everything is spicy but not burn-your-face off ... Funmi said "I put a little Scotch bonnet in everything." Which is habanero, so we're talking serious heat here, but she uses it as a spice, not a main ingredient. We really liked it and will probably go back again.

Bardstown Road not far south of Highland, a few doors south of Jack Fry's and, as Jackie points out, next door to Homemade IC and PK. We just parked right out front and walked in the front door.

And how sweet is Funmi? - I loved her! The waiter could NOT have been nicer, as well.

. Funmi said "I put a little Scotch bonnet in everything." Which is habanero, so we're talking serious heat here,

I going to be a picker of nits. While they are similar(being varieties of the same species) they are indeed different peppers. A quick google will describe the difference better than I. The markets we visited in the Caribbean almost exclusively sold scotch bonnet ,opposed to habaneros.