African Restaurants near Herndon, VA

“My daughter visiting from Europe, an excellent cook in this cuisine, got all the challenging, hard to find spices and ingredients to make an incredible feast for us last month from Nazrate. Since we had the Shiro and excellent Berbere spices from Nazrate, i decided to try my hand as well. Their Injera is also authentic and very good. My wife went there to pick up more injera and the lady was very helpful and kind. I think based on last night's results we will be eating a lot more Ethiopian! (and we will back in a day or two since i made so much we need more injera for the leftovers.) I am wondering if this is a lovely cycle where you make so much that you need to buy more injera, but then afterwards have injera left over, so you make more and thus have to buy more injera because what you have won't be enough and you can see the cycle forming, :)“

“My best friend discovered this joint and told me about it last week. I told him we would check it out some other time. We finished some construction work we had started last weekend this weekend, and he brought it up again. I agreed to go check the place out. He brought his family with him. The restaurant looked like a tiny place to me upon entry. Anyway, I reviewed the menu. It's loaded with typical Ghanaian dishes, from jolof rice and fufu to wakye and everything in between. There are goat soup, peanut butter soup, okra sauce stew, green leaf stews, and more. Talk about varieties, they've got them. I reviewed the menu board.
It's that simple to see what they have and easy to choose, even if you are not Ghanaian or have never been there before. I picked the fufu and goat meat soup. The goat meat soup comes in 4 different kinds: light soup, palm nut soup, fish soup, or chicken soup. You choose and sit down and wait. Within 30 minutes after placing the order, food was served. I said my little prayer and got to work. It tasted perfect. I requested it to be spicy, and it was spicy. Not overly spicy, just right by me. I wasn't sweating or tearing up, but just about. You can guess the feeling. I buried my concentration, enjoyed every fufu cut after cut, goat meat bite after bite, and liked the soupy finger and finger.
By three mouthfuls, I was on cloud nine by all standards. Yummy Yummy!!! I am married and very lucky to have a wife who cooks all these Ghanaian dishes, and I can enjoy any time I want to, even if I wish to eat a particular food every weekend all year round. So I hardly eat outside of home. But I am here to tell you that the Rahama Restaurant at 45665 W Church Rd STE 112, Sterling, VA 20164 is an excellent one to patronize. Very good, tasty dishes and very well priced within students' price range. A very reasonable price for the kind of food they make and sell. I recommend them to all and sundry, not only to Ghanaians or West Africans who want some home dishes to feel and taste the motherland occasionally. I recommend their dishes to everyone to check out typical African dishes for a change and an experience. Cheers!

Mike“