Badou Senegalese Cuisine

African restaurant · Rogers Park

Badou Senegalese Cuisine

African restaurant · Rogers Park

1947 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626

Highlights

Casual restaurant with a range of traditional Senegalese meat & vegetarian offerings.

1947 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626 Get directions

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"Badara “Badou” Diakhate is the owner/chef behind this Rogers Park restaurant specializing in Senegalese fare with a few soul food dishes, too. His specialty is a jambalaya of okra cooked in a thick tomato sauce with onion, shrimp, and smoked turkey. There’s also boulette, a Senegalese beef patty accompanied by braised collard greens, and bissap, a refreshing non-alcoholic beverage of hibiscus, anis, vanilla, and mint." - aimee.levitt, Eater Staff

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Garden of the Sun Yakini Heri

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I really enjoyed the atieke. It was beautifully dished and served. If you want something different about your dish just ask, and they will make it to your liking. The owners are very friendly also. I took a picture of my dish after cutting in to the fish. The bisap is also very good.

Alex Yijia Ding

Google

Absolutely delicious food. Don't sleep on this spot. It's super cozy, friendly, and some of the best chicken I've ever had in my life. Highly recommend the Mafe Chicken, jerk chicken, fataya, bissap, and literally everything on the menu. Call ahead to double check they are open.

Nik Victor

Google

Highly recommend Badou! Everything we got was absolutely delicious! We tried many things off the menu, the Thieboudienne and Jerk chicken were especially phenomenal. They also have a wide array of vegan/vegetarian options that tasted great. We got the Mafe and pastels and some of the lentils/soup dishes. A low key dish that was one of our absolute favorites was the veggie soup. Don’t sleep on this pick, the broth was so wonderfully spiced and warming it almost brought tears to our eyes! Extremely friendly ownership that truly cares about their food.

Carly Richter

Google

This place is amazing. Super welcoming and friendly owners and staff. We got the veggie balls and meat pastel to start. Wow. The fried dough of the pastel was insane. We also got the chicken and peas, jerk and jollof and the veggie national dish. Everyone loved theirs! I can speak to the chicken and peas - it was 1000% one of those craveable dishes that will follow you around for the rest of your life. Perfect mustard and wine based sauce, tender chicken and super savory jollof rice on the side. Damn. Highly recommend - we wanna try their whole menu! Oh, and the hibiscus drink was amazing! Get some to go and mix with some white wine and La croix - chefs kiss!

Patrick Cameron

Google

Oh my Gosh. What a wonderful surprise. I went there not expecting anything fantastic to happen. Not good, not bad. Just expected to get a meal after a long, hard, day at work. Well Surpise, something fantastic did happen. The food was delicious. I have to put this on my list of places to revisit. I ordered Jerk Chicken and Jolaf Rice. The chicken was spiced just right and the rice was fresh (not that hard, bottom of the pot stuff. No this was a softer texture and was very flavorful). I'm sure they can bring spice flavors down if you don't like spicy. But check their menu. The have lots of flavorful looking dishes.

Induk Kim

Google

Fantastic food and friendly staff! Don’t worry if it’s your first time trying Senegalese food. My family—all novices to West African cuisine—greatly enjoyed what we ate. Our favorite was djollof rice with crispy fish fillet and the vegetable pastel (empanadas) appetizer. We will come back to this restaurant for sure.

Erin

Google

Great experience dining in! Staff is so friendly and makes you feel like you are at their home for a special dinner. Clearly labeled vegetarian and vegan options which I always appreciate, and warm atmosphere

Paulie H

Google

Absolute heart food that can make you weep. Try the atieke - crispy whole tilapia or snapper on a bed of zingy veggies and fermented cassava that is sorta like couscous, except it absorbs all the lovely juices without falling apart. Jerk chicken and jollof rice is a classic too