West African Restaurants in Kansas City, MO

“Teetasty is a small cafe in a strip mall on Southwest Trafficway serving Nigerian and African cuisine.

We stopped in to try it for dinner the other night.

We tried the Vegetarian Plate, Jollof rice with fried plantains and spinach, it was also topped with a slightly spicy tomato based sauce which added some depth and rounded things out. The rice has a surprisingly strong almost smokey flavor, but balanced out nicely with all of the other components.

The Vegan Egusi Soup with Fufu was interesting to try, not my favorite dish but it was pretty good and I think the SO enjoyed it. The flavor was fairly mild and slightly salty. The Fufu that it came with was a large ball which you tear off a ball and squish it into a scoop shape to eat the soup. A little different dining experience. It was soft, but not unpleasantly so.

We also tried their house made Zobo drink, which was hibiscus, ginger, cloves, and pineapple. It was strong and pretty tasty, I wouldn't have thought cloves would work on a fruity drink like that but it was pretty good.

As well as the bottled Maltina, which was a malt drink with very strong overtones of molasses. The SO loved it, I thought it was interesting to try but a bit too much like drinking molasses.

The service is table service, but seems a bit like a cafe that you should walk up to ... Their service was friendly and helpful.

The atmosphere was pleasant if not anything fancy. A little oddly decorated with everything hung extremely high up the walls. Various cultural art work, mostly of people.“

“Awesome!!! Great vibes!!!“