Chishuru introduces Wednesday-only Summer Suya Sessions with £7 plates and West African cocktails

Chishuru, the Michelin-starred West African restaurant in Fitzrovia, has announced it will be serving a new weekly menu called Summer Suya Sessions every Wednesday from 23^rd July to 27^th August. With à la carte dishes priced from just £7, the new offering gives diners the opportunity to experience high-end, authentically Nigerian food, overseen by head chef Adejoké Bakare. Known to colleagues as ‘Joké, Bakare is the first black female chef in the UK to hold a Michelin star. 

The selection draws on the street-side grills found across West Africa, where meat is marinated in spices and cooked over open flames. In contrast to Chishuru’s celebrated main menu, the special Wednesdays allow diners to mix, match and reorder dishes throughout their meal. 

Smaller dishes will include charred suya-spiced Skewers of Bavette, Lamb Tongue with Green Strawberries, Chicken Offal Sausages with Plantain Molasses, Whole Prawns Slicked in Yaji Butter and a groundbreaking Spaghetti Jollof. Larger plates feature Whole Seabass with scent leaf gremolata or goat belly balangu, and a Lamb Barnsley Chop with slow-cooked onions and a mustard dip. A rotating selection of housemade ice creams will also be available for dessert.

The drinks list has wines from French producers favoured by chef Bakare, as well as West African interpretations of classic cocktails. Among them is a Yaji Pineapple Margarita made with mezcal, pineapple and ginger shrub, lime juice and yaji peanut spice. Also on the list is the Push Me, I Push You, which is presented as two ògógóró-based drinks served side by side, one with coconut water and hot bitters and the other with pink grapefruit sherbet and ehuru salt.

The format represents a temporary shift for the restaurant, which typically operates with a fixed menu rather than the flexible, sharing-focused style the summer sessions will adopt. Two sittings will be available on Wednesdays only, from noon to 1.45pm and from 5.30 to 9.30pm, with bookings taken in advance.

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The Summer Suya Sessions are on every Wednesday from 22^nd July until 26^th August 2026 at Chishuru, 3 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 8AX. For further information or to book a table, visit the restaurant’s website here.