Home delivery of high quality beef – Thursday!

This is wonderful, wonderful news! We have Beer Sheba beef in our freezer now and I will never be able to go back to what’s currently available in Dakar supermarkets. My family will definitely be ordering!

The Beer Sheba organic farm will be arranging home delivery of high quality beef next Thursday to Dakar in wholesale quantities.

Please inform Eric Toumieux (77 856 01 01 – English or French) of your interest.

Schools, projects, families with a big freezer are welcome!

The following will be available :

• 1/4 beef with bones (back thighs, sirloin, entrecotes, brisket) at 3’000 FCFA /kg (total approx. weight = 50 kg)
• 1/4 beef without bones (front thighs, shoulders and other medium cuts) at 3’000 FCFA / kg (total approx. weight = 25 kg)

The Beer Sheba Project is an organic farm and a school of discipleship and agriculture. Visit us at Sandiara, 18 km east of Mbour.

Marie’s Kitchen

Fresh breads, muffins, tortillas and other baked goods made with care by Marie Simone.

English Muffins: 2000cfa/baker’s dozen
Quick Breads: 1500cfa/loaf
Tortillas: 1000cfa/pack of 8

Delivery fee: 1500cfa

To order: 77 536 7887

Some English spoken. Items are baked to order, so please call 2-3 days ahead. Whole wheat available on request. Always ready to try new recipes if you have one in mind! (US or metric measurements.)

Download Marie’s Kitchen flyer here

Tamales, get your tamales!

Ladies and gentlemen, Dakar’s food scene just took a huge step in a delicious direction. Whenever I ask what’s missing from the Dakar food scene, Americans consistently agree that the number one answer is Mexican food.

Now available in Dakar: homemade tamales!

Sariah makes and sells authentic chicken, beef and lamb tamales. Seasoned meat wrapped in a flavorful cornmeal dough, then steamed in a corn husk.

Tamales are available in packages of six for 6,000cfa. Delivery of frozen can be arranged for most areas and plans are in the works for a ‘stop by and pick up fresh, hot tamales’ day each month.

These tamales are great for a quick weeknight dinner, lunch on the go, taking to a family just settling in, or like we did… having pot-luck Tex-Mex night! (On a side note for parents, my toddler loves them.)

Dakar Tamales: 77 536 5580

For large orders (think parties, events and socials), please order one week in advance.

More information is available on the Dakar Tamales Facebook Page.

Planet Kebab – a great find in Plâteau!

Today’s post was a great thing to receive in my inbox from Amanda. Thanks for the information, write-up and photos!

A friend and I were roaming around in Plâteau last night and came across a really nice, possibly new, restaurant. It was like a little slice of America with the clean décor, fast service and simple menu.

Planet Kebab is at the intersection of Lamine Gueye and Rue Carnot, and you can’t miss the black and yellow signage. They have a great menu of sandwiches/wraps, salads and burgers. There are small and large options to the sandwiches, which would make it a great lunch option.

Photo from Planet Kebab’s Facebook Page

The service was very fast and a number of the employees spoke English. My friend had the large Americano sandwich, which was basically 4 small hamburger patties on really good bread (panini-like minus the grilling). I had the small Chicken Cheese which was 2 breaded chicken patties with emmental. Both of us had fries and a drink and the grand total for our dinner was 5,600cfa. Can’t beat that!!

This place is in such a neat little neighborhood, too. As we were walking to the restaurant, we found a number of super nice clothing boutiques, shoe stores, and a nice looking baby store. This would be an interesting area to explore a bit more.

Just wanted to share this with Dakar Eats. We will definitely be back soon!

Directions: Head towards the Palace on Rue de Republique. Make a left at Chez Mon Ami, and the restaurant is down a couple of blocks on your left. There was reserved parking in front for customers.

Planet Kebab Afrique
150 avenue Lamine Gueye
Tel: 33 821 11 77
Delivery available.

Organic produce, delivered to your door

The village of Guéréo is located about 70 kilometers south of Dakar and is home to fishermen and farmers. The Jardins de Guéréo is an initiative that brings together the people of the village with the people of Dakar.

The farmers use organic methods to cultivate a variety of produce, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, zucchini, carrots, turnips, potatoes, lettuce, celery, parsley, cilantro, and bissap without any traces of pesticide or chemicals.

The Jardins de Guéréo is now offering delivery of a large basket of mixed produce to homes in Dakar for 5,000cfa.

To order a basket of mixed organic produce, call 77 303 7037.

HelloFood Senegal: a guest review

Today’s review of HelloFood is by Marianne, a Dakar Eats reader. In case you haven’t seen the ads yet, HelloFood is a delivery service that works with 30+ popular restaurants around town, including Happy Days, Times Café, Eric Kayser, Saveurs d’Asie and more.

HelloFood has a variety of Dakar’s finest restaurants (but they are not just the most expensive ones) and new restaurants are added almost weekly. Availability depends on where you live. Some areas have almost all the restaurants available for delivery (Point E, Fann, Plâteau, so on).

On the site you’ll find the restaurant’s full menus, from the entrees to dessert and drinks, everything! Some restaurants have minimum order amount, but for most of them there’s no minimum and they have everything you can order from breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks at work or at home. You just order what you want and confirm online and within seconds you will get a confirmation SMS with the estimated arrival time.

They start the deliveries at 11am and go to 10pm. Delivery fees range from 0Fcfa to 500 Fcfa, so not bad at all. Delivery speed usually sucks in Dakar. But so far so good – they did not go over the estimated time of delivery, so they really did their homework on that.

And the most important thing they have a live chat that’s available all the time anytime you are connected someone will greet you through the chat (customer service, right!).

You can always give them suggestions I already told them that it would be wonderful if we could pay online with a bank card and if they could also have an English version of the website and they did get back to me in a very efficient manner.

I love Mexican food, so the first time we ordered was from “The Sombrero” and everything was so spicy and tasty and so yummy I tried the “beignets de calamari”, the “fish burritos” and the “fondue de chocolat” and it was with skewered fruits and a warm fondue to dip it in it was great! And my husband tried the “nachos poulet” and we had some chicken wings for the kids and, as I already said, it was delicious!.

The second restaurant we tried wasn’t far from our home so delivery was like within minutes. The restaurant’s name is KISAKALA and they specialize in both Senegalese and international food and they have kind of a full-course menu bundle called the “KOOL BOX”.

What else to say? I am impressed, but I will not scream victory just yet. I know most of the time in Dakar the new things are the best, but once they have you they do nothing to keep you.

Has anyone tried HelloFood? What did you think? Thanks, Marianne!

Chicken: delivered.

Last week my friend took me to Poulet Express, a small shop tucked away on a side street near Sandaga. I was just tagging along, but when she said their chicken breasts were only 5,500cfa/kilo, I couldn’t pass that up.

When they brought out my kilo of chicken breasts, I recognized the label as one I’d bought before and really liked. Good price and good quality? Score.

But then it got better. The kind woman behind the counter said something I love to hear. “We deliver.”

I don’t mean to sound jaded, but sometimes ‘delivery’ in Dakar isn’t exactly what we’re used to coming from the land of ‘under-thirty-minutes-or-it’s-free’. So I decided to test it out.

11:28 am
Call Poulet Express. Place order with a very nice man who spoke clearly and politely. Give directions to the delivery guy, who was also friendly. Was told to expect delivery in 30 minutes. No mention of it being free if not

12:05pm
Hmm…

12:15pm
My phone rings. It’s the driver asking for a clarification on the entrance. I hung up, wondering if he had even left Poulet Express yet.

12:16pm
Ding-dong! Apparently he’d been calling from right outside. Delivery in 45 minutes? I’ll take it!

Poulet Express
33 842 9686 or 33 821 5888

Whole chickens: 2,000cfa/kilo
Chicken breasts: 5,500cfa/kilo
Legs: 2,200cfa/kilo
Wings: 1,700cfa/kilo

Delivery fee: 1,000cfa

(At times they also have turkey and fresh eggs. Just ask!)

Caesar’s: 2nd time’s the charm

The first time I went to Caesar’s in Mermoz, I was not impressed. But, in Caesar’s defense, it was smack middle of hot season and I’d just had a baby. And we were there during the lunch rush.

What did I order? I have no idea. But the whole experience was ‘ugh’.

So today when my friend suggested Caesar’s for lunch, it took a little gentle arm-twisting to get me on board. But when we arrived, the lunch crowd was reasonable, the restaurant was breezy and cool enough and the food (Kentucky wrap with side of fries, 3000cfa) was amazing! I have not had chicken like that since leaving the US. It wasn’t Chick Fil A, but it was like a really good spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy’s. Fried chicken breast, lettuce, tomato and a delicious garlicky sauce in pita bread. Really, really good!

Kentucky chicken wrap

Consider me impressed, Caesar.

However, the two servers we interacted with both acted as if they were bored/irritated. That needs to change if you’re going to make it with the Dakar Eats crowd.

The fried chicken section of the menu. Park yourself here.

Caesar’s Mermoz
33 864 55 65 or 77 458 88 88
Delivery rates are 300-1500cfa around Dakar.

Diami delivers! Senegalese dishes for toubab tastes

Diami knows ‘toubab’ tastes and standards and is happy to bring the best of Senegal right to your door. Meals are prepared in a clean kitchen using good quality ingredients, then delivered punctually. Perfect for events, but also for family dinners.

Call 48 hours in advance to place orders.  77 536 5405
French, English or Wolof. Delivery fee 1,000 cfa.

Download: MENU – Diami Delivers

Diami’s Poulet Yassa

Entrees (serves 5 people)

Poulet Yassa
Marinated chicken with caramelized onion sauce, choice of white rice or vermicelli 12,000 cfa

Yassa poisson
Caramelized onion sauce with lotte or capitaine fish, choice of white rice or vermicelli 12,000 cfa

Thieboudienne
Lotte or capitaine fish with vegetables and broken rice in a tomato sauce 10,000 cfa

Thiebouyapp (white)
Boneless beef with vegetables and broken rice with caramelized onion sauce 10,000 cfa

Thiebouyapp (red)
Boneless beef with vegetables and broken rice in a tomato sauce 10,000 cfa

Mafé beef
Peanut butter sauce with boneless beef, carrots and potato with white rice 9,000 cfa

Drinks

Bissap, hibiscus-infused drink made with filtered water 1500 cfa / 1.5 liters

Bouye, baobob fruit drink made with filtered water 1500 cfa / 1.5 liters

Sweet tea, true American-style tea made with filtered water 1500 cfa / 1.5 liters

Fresh seafood, delivered to your door

Have you met Abdou? Some of you have, and others of you would probably like to! Abdou will take your order for seafood, go to the market early in the morning, buy whatever you’ve requested and ice it down, then deliver it to your door at whatever time suits you.

I’ve been buying from Abdou for over a year now and am always impressed with the freshness of the seafood and how punctual he is for deliveries. And his prices are quite good, too.

• Beautiful lotte fillets are between 3,000-3,500cfa/kilo.
• Whole shrimp is 2,500cfa/kilo.
• Barracuda fillets are 6,000cfa/kilo.
• He can also get gambas, lobster or any other local seafood you’d like.

Abdou is a very motivated seller who wants your business. So he may call you up to ask if you are ready to order again rather than waiting for you to contact him. But hey, for prompt deliveries, fresh seafood and good prices… It’s worth it.

Abdou: 77 310 6093

Tell him Khady sent you.