Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Lagos from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Lagos
These restaurants show Lagos through contemporary African cooking, modern Nigerian plates, and a Lebanese-inspired room with a drinks list.
A Victoria Island restaurant for African haute cuisine, with a wine list and craft cocktails. It appears twice in La Liste's global rankings in our guide, and its setting combines contemporary African art with a bamboo garden. The format is a la carte.
Ilé Eros in Lekki Phase 1 presents modern Nigerian and West African cooking in a polished-casual room designed to feel like an old Benin home. It works across a la carte service, tasting menu, and small plates, with craft cocktails and a standard wine program.
Z Kitchen on Victoria Island focuses on modern Lebanese-inspired fusion with a wine list and craft cocktails. It offers a la carte and set menu service, and it is the only restaurant in Lagos in our guide with a visible meat aging chamber. The room also serves ostrich meat and tomahawk steaks.
These picks show the city outside the fine-dining lane, where classic dishes, casual formats, and local food culture stay central.
Yakoyo Abula Joint in Lekki Phase I is built around authentic Nigerian abula, with amala, gbegiri, and ewedu at the centre of the meal. It is a la carte, and in our guide it is known as the best Amala joint in Lagos.
On Lagos Island, Iya-Eba Restaurant & Bar serves traditional Yoruba food with a long-running focus on eba with egusi soup. The restaurant has a standard wine program and craft cocktails, but the core of the experience remains its a la carte swallow dishes. It has been serving for over 50 years.
Best Shawarma in Surulere serves chicken, beef, and sausage combinations. It keeps to a la carte service and is known in our guide as a highly recommended shawarma spot with a direct, street-food format.
Victoria Island holds 8 of the venues in our Lagos guide. Ikoyi, Lekki Phase 1, and Ikeja GRA follow, while Lagos Island and Surulere keep traditional and street-level eating visible.
Lagos has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. NOK by Alara on Victoria Island has La Liste recognition and a wine list. Ilé Eros in Lekki Phase 1 serves modern Nigerian and West African cooking, offers a tasting menu and appears on the Conde Nast Hot List Restaurants for 2026.
NOK by Alara on Victoria Island, Z Kitchen on Victoria Island, and Mood Lagos in Lekki Phase 1.
Ilé Eros in Lekki Phase 1 offers a tasting menu, alongside a la carte service and small plates. It is the only venue in this guide with that format, and it also has craft cocktails and a standard wine program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Lagos, Nigeria
NOK by Alara occupies a distinct position among Lagos's serious dining addresses, bringing Nigerian cuisine into a considered fine-dining register on Victoria Island. Recognised twice by La Liste's global restaurant rankings, it sits alongside a small peer group reframing what West African cooking looks like at the table. Booking in advance is advisable for evening sittings.
Lagos, Nigeria
Ilé Eros places modern Nigerian cooking inside a design-led Lagos room, using regional references rather than imported luxury cues as its main argument. The point is not novelty for its own sake, but a sharper reading of jollof, plantain, pepper, rice, texture and ceremony in a city whose dining culture is moving beyond simple casual-versus-formal categories.
Lagos, Nigeria
Shawarma in Lagos sits within a street-food culture shaped by Lebanese diaspora influence and local adaptation. Best Shawarma joins a generation of spots where the wrap format has become a fixture of the city's fast-casual scene, drawing on imported spice traditions and locally sourced protein. The venue is part of a broader Lagos conversation about accessible, flavour-forward eating that doesn't require a reservation.
Lagos, Nigeria
On Alexander Avenue in Ikoyi, Danfo Bistro positions itself at the intersection of Lagos street culture and sit-down dining, taking its name from the city's famously chaotic yellow minibuses. The address places it in one of Lagos's most concentrated restaurant corridors, where the competition runs from casual to formally ambitious. A useful entry point for readers mapping the mid-range to upscale dining tier across the island.
Lagos, Nigeria
On Lagos Island, Iya-Eba Restaurant & Bar occupies a specific place in the city's conversation about everyday Nigerian food done with care. The name alone signals a menu anchored in eba, the fermented cassava staple that underpins Yoruba domestic cooking, placing this address firmly in the tradition-forward tier of Lagos dining, where sourcing and preparation matter more than spectacle.
Lagos, Nigeria
Located in Lekki Phase I's Lennox Mall, Mood Lagos sits within one of the city's most active dining corridors, drawing a crowd that expects both craft and atmosphere. The restaurant occupies a tier of Lagos dining where setting and occasion carry as much weight as the plate. For visitors mapping Lagos's contemporary restaurant scene, it belongs on the shortlist alongside venues testing what modern Nigerian hospitality looks like.
Lagos, Nigeria
The Place in Ikeja sits at a crossroads Lagos diners know well: a neighbourhood address that draws both residents and travellers looking for a meal that feels grounded in the city rather than imported from it. Without the formal trappings of Victoria Island's upscale circuit, it occupies a more accessible register within Lagos's broader dining spread, making it a reference point for the Ikeja area's evolving food scene.
Lagos, Nigeria
On Ogunlana Drive in Surulere, Yakoyo Abula Joint represents the kind of neighbourhood eating that defines Lagos at its most direct: abula-centred, community-facing, and rooted in a part of the city that has been feeding working Lagos for generations. Positioned well outside the fine-dining corridor of Victoria Island, it serves a tradition that the city's newer restaurant wave has largely left alone.
Lagos, Nigeria
Z Kitchen operates on Victoria Island, the district that sets the commercial and social register for Lagos dining. The address on Saka Tinubu Street places it inside a neighbourhood where the city's appetite for contemporary cooking is most concentrated, making it a reference point for visitors mapping the VI restaurant circuit.
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Lagos, Nigeria
Nordic Hotel Lagos holds two significant industry awards, Regional Winner for Luxury City Business Hotel and Continent Winner for Luxury Boutique Hotel, positioning it at the upper tier of Victoria Island's accommodation market. Located on Kofo Abayomi Street, one of the island's main commercial corridors, it sits at an interesting intersection of business utility and boutique character that few Lagos properties occupy simultaneously.
Lagos, Nigeria
On Victoria Island's Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, the Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel occupies one of Lagos's most connected business addresses and holds the Country Winner award for Luxury Business Hotel. The property sits within the commercial and diplomatic corridor that defines VI's upper tier, making it a reference point for travellers whose Lagos itinerary is built around meetings, proximity to government offices, and reliable international-standard infrastructure.
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Lagos, Nigeria
On Victoria Island's most commercially dense strip, Four Degrees operates at a remove from Lagos's louder nightlife formats. For those tracking where serious drinking culture is taking shape in Lagos, it belongs on the shortlist alongside Mosto and Vaniti.
Lagos, Nigeria
On Victoria Island's Adeola Odeku Street, Vaniti Lagos occupies a tier of Lagos nightlife where spirits curation and atmosphere carry equal weight. The bar draws a circuit of regulars who treat the back bar as the main event, arriving for rare pours and staying for the room. Reserve ahead and dress accordingly for VI's after-dark standard.
Lagos, Nigeria
W Bar Lounge occupies a position that few Lagos venues can claim: a waterfront address at the LASWA Yard on Falomo Bridge in Ikoyi, where the Lagos Lagoon sets the backdrop for evening drinks. The setting places it within Ikoyi's tightly clustered bar scene, a neighbourhood that has become the reference point for the city's premium social drinking culture.
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