Jambo Cafe

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"Founded nearly a decade ago by chef Ahmed Obo, who emigrated from Lamu, a small Kenyan island, this African restaurant was the only one of its kind in Santa Fe when it opened. Obo—who moved to New York at 22 before settling in New Mexico and worked in restaurants and grocery stores to support family back home—serves East African–inspired dishes such as island-spiced mahi mahi, ugali (cornmeal dough), and coconut pili pili shrimp (tiger shrimp over basmati rice with an East African coconut-tomato hot spice). He says his target is local diners rather than only Africans, a community that has embraced him, and he even joined host Sheldon Simeon on Cooking in America to share a meal at the restaurant." - Eater Video