West African London.

Adejoké Bakare taught herself to cook, won a Brixton competition whose prize was a restaurant, and four years later held a Michelin star at Chishuru. Jeremy Chan and Ire Hassan-Odukale opened Ikoyi in 2017 with, as The World's 50 Best put it, little formal training between them, and it carries two stars and came fifteenth on that list in 2025. Order the smoked jollof at Ikoyi, which has held the menu since the first year, and at Chishuru the fermented rice cake with white crab, pumpkin and sorrel.