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    The Calabash African Bar & Restaurant 57 Union st

    57 Union st

    Glasgow, GB G1 3RB


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    Featured Items

    • Nyama Choma

      Flamed grilled(roasted)marinated & lightly spiced lamb meat with a choice of fry or gambian style options. (Fry - with a wet sauce), (Gambian style (afra) onion option)
      £11.00
    • Plantain

      £6.00
    • Ugali

      £4.00

    Food Menu

    Starters

    • Chicken wings

      Flame grilled chicken wings marinated in peri peri sauce and served on a bed of salad
      £5.99
    • Cassava

      Deep fried cassava slices served with a hot and chilli dipping sauce
      £5.99
    • Githeri Salad

      Mixed beans with sweetcorn flavoured with african seasoning
      £5.99
    • Samosa

      Deep fried thin, tri-shaped pastry filled with seasoned lamb or veg
      £5.99
    • Chicken livers

      Chicken liver pan fried with a calabash special sauce and served with bread and butter
      £5.99

    Habeshan & Ethiopian

    • Beyayenetu

      A selection of vegetrian dishes served on a bed of injera
      £14.99
    • Awaze tibis

      Lamb cubes sauteed with onions, tomatoes, garlic butter and awaze with light heat spices served with a salad on a bed of injera
      £14.99
    • Special tibis

      Lamb cubes fried in a blen of house spices, onion, garlic butter served with salad on a bed of injera.
      £14.99
    • Doro Wot

      Marinated chicken stew seasoned with spicy berere served with salad on a bed of injera
      £14.99

    West African

    • Pepper soup

      A very spicy soup cooked with a choice of either assorted meats or hake fish
      £11.99
    • Jollof rice

      Spicy rice cooked in a tomatoe sauce, mixed peppers and african spices served with a choice of either lamb, spinnach or boneless fried chicken
      £13.99
    • Egusi soup

      spicy stew/soup consisting of melon seeds, crayfish, stockfish spinnach cooked with palm oil and assorted meats.
      £14.99
    • okra soup

      spicy stew/soup consisting of blended okra, crayfish, stockfish, spinnach & ugu leaf cooked with palm oil and assorted meats.
      £14.99
    • vegetable soup

      spicy stew/soup consisting of ugu leaf, crayfish, stockfish & spinnach cooked with assorted meats.
      £14.99
    • ogbono soup

      spicy stew/soup consisting of ogbono seeds (wild mango) crayfish, stockfish spinnach & ugu leaf cooked with assorted meats.
      £13.99
    • Peanut soup

      Traditional Gambian soup made with meat, tomatoes & peanut butter.
      £13.99

    Caribbean

    • Jerk Chicken

      Quarter chicken portion lovingly marinated in jerk spices and grilled to perfection served with rice and peas
      £13.50
    • Goat Curry

      Marinated flavours of curry spices, chopped onion, scallion, garlic, ginger, thyme and mild chilli slowly cooked with chunks of goat meat.
      £14.99

    East African

    • Coconut rice

      Rice cooked in coconut milk, chicken (or spinach Veg option) and mixed peppers with a special blend of spices, served with salad.
      £12.99
    • Katogo

      Green bananas stewed with lamb, tomato, onions & mixed spices
      £13.99
    • Mama Special

      Succulent portions of lamb cooked with a mixture of spinach & sukuma wiki served with ugali/sadza./pap just like mama makes.
      £9.99
    • Madodo

      African Kidney bean stew with tomato, onion, peppers & mixed spices.
      £9.95
    • Vegetarian Special

      Spinach slathered in tomato & peanut butter served with whole roast plantain.
      £11.99
    • Lamb and Tomato stew

      Slowly stewed chunks of lamb with sweet ripe tomato with a special blend of Calabash spices.
      £14.50

    Grill

    • Nyama Choma

      Flamed grilled(roasted)marinated & lightly spiced lamb meat with a choice of fry or gambian style options. (Fry - with a wet sauce), (Gambian style (afra) onion option)
      £11.00
    • Mixed Grill

      Portions of mshikaki, chicken wings, nyama choma served with either plantain, fried rice or chips.
      £23.50
    • Peri Peri chicken

      Flame-grilled chicken marinated in peri-peri or reggae reggae sauce served with chips & salad.
      £13.99
    • Samaki, tilapia fish

      Deep fried fish marinated with lemon and a blend of African spices served with salad and fish sauce
      £13.00
    • Boerwoers

      Flame-grilled African sausage served with the special calabash sauce & salad on the side.
      £13.99+
    • Ribs

      £14.50
    • Mshikaki

      £12.99

    Specials

    • Isi Ewu

      Slowly boiled full goat\lamb head with a blend of Calabash spices.
      £19.99
    • Oxtail Stew

      Cuts of beef stew slowly cooked in a blend of Calabash spices. Served with Sadza/Ugali/Rice
      £16.99
    • Seafood Special

      Pan Fried King Prawns & mussels cooked with Calabash spices, served with fried rice.
      £16.99
    • Jumbo Grill

      Delicious African cuisine with mukimo, plantain, coconut rice, nyama choma, kuku choma, mshikaki, keema curry, jollof rice, boerewors and kachumbari. Sharer for 4.
      £47.50

    Sides

    • Ugali

      £4.00
    • Rice

      £4.00
    • Fried Rice

      £5.00
    • Rice & Peas

      £5.00
    • Mukimo

      £5.00
    • Chips

      £4.50
    • Sweet potatoe chips

      £5.00
    • Green bananas

      £5.00
    • Spinach

      £4.50
    • Pounded Yam

      £4.50
    • Gari

      £4.50
    • Semolina

      £4.50
    • Sukuma wiki

      £5.00
    • Chapati

      £5.00
    • Kwanga

      £5.00
    • Plantain

      £6.00
    • Kachumbari

      £3.00
    • salsa

      £1.00
    • Jollof rice only

      £5.00
    • Pepe

      £0.50

    Dessert

    • Sticky Toffee

      £6.00
    • Plantain desert

      £6.00
    • Cake of the day

      £6.00

    NA Bevs

    Soda

    • Coke

      £2.00
    • Diet coke

      £2.00
    • 7up

      £2.00
    • Ginger beer

      £2.00
    • Irn Bru

      £2.00
    • Diet irn bru

      £2.00
    • Appletiser

      £2.50
    • Bottled water

      £1.00
    • Barbican

      £2.50

    Energy drink

    • Redbull

      £3.00

    Juice

    • J20

      £3.00
    • Juicetree Orange

      £3.00
    • Juicetree Apple

      £3.00
    • Mango juice

      £3.00
    • Cranberry juice

      £3.00
    • Pineapple & Coconut

      £3.00

    African soda

    • Nigerian Fanta

      £3.50
    • Malta Guiness

      £3.00

    0% drinks

    • heineken 0%

      £4.00
    • Koppaberg mf 0%

      £4.00
    • Koppaber sl 0%

      £4.00

    All hours
    Sunday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Monday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Tuesday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Wednesday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Thursday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Friday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Saturday12:00 pm - 1:00 am
    Restaurant info

    For an authentic african experience. The food, the drinks, the vibes... for those who are up for trying something different...

    Location

    57 Union st, Glasgow, GB G1 3RB

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