Richmond, Virginia’s first African restaurant! Serving foods from across the African Diaspora including traditional West African dishes, Southern, and Caribbean cuisines. Daily buffet menus are vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free friendly. Our self-serve buffet is pay-by-weight; place your plate on the scale and pay just $8.99 per lb.
Casual lunch spot offering pay-by-weight, buffet-style West African, Caribbean & Southern fare. Based on 402 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.6 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No delivery
Address:
1102 W Main St, Richmond, VA 23220
Phone: (804) 343-1233
Website: https://www.chefmamusu-africanne.com/
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Hours
| Thursday |
11 AM–8 PM |
| Friday |
11 AM–8 PM |
| Saturday |
1–8 PM |
| Sunday |
Closed |
| Monday |
Closed |
| Tuesday |
11 AM–8 PM |
| Wednesday |
11 AM–8 PM |
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Order and Reservations
Reservations: chefmamusu-africanne.com
Reviews
A’makeal Caravan
This is, hands down, my favorite spot in Richmond. They have a rotating menu for each day of the week, and there is genuinely nothing I haven’t loved yet.
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Mz Tink
Every thing was great mango lemonade amazing, egusi soup fish, hubs had egusi duck, both with fufu. Will be back
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EK G
No actually what I expected but I was quite please with the selections of food and the cleanliness of the serving areas.
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Abigail Hauschild
Delicious food and lovely people there! Buffet is very well kept and the dining area is cute and intimate. Would recommend a thousand times over!
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Sara Dozier
First time visit and will not be the last time. I went with my son and we had a great time. From the beverages to the food to the music. Every moment felt like home. I love a good scratch restaurant!!! We were accommodated greatly. We were introduced to the buffet and we ordered Egusi with goat, mother Africa told us it was a more traditional African dish. There was a bottle of sanitizer for all patrons to use prior to starting at the buffet. The music was not too loud, we were able to speak to one another without yelling. It didn’t feel like we were at a restaurant, it felt like home. It was peaceful and welcoming. I dance back and forth with vegan dishes and this restaurant has these as well. I loved the beverage choices. I had guava, they also have mango lemonade and pineapple ginger juice, African fruit punch and others I cant recall.
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Will Pearce
This place is an institution that finally reopened after moving westward from their old location. Great to see them open again! Great buffet choices making a quick and easy lunch spot with seating available inside.
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Titus J.
Friendly. Good food. Happy they had fufu
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Ace
No complaints about almost everything: only the trout, which was dry, cold and not crispy. The mustard chicken is best over curry rice, not white rice, and though it’s not for everyone I really enjoyed it. Would absolutely recommend the jollof. The sweet cornbread is almost cake-sweet, which I don’t usually prefer, but after all the spicy food it helped rebalance my palate.
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Pradeep chowdary peddineni
Chef mamasus cooked casual lunch spot, pay by weight buffet style African and Caribbean food. 6.50 a pound. Liked that it has quite a few options, do have few items for veggie lovers as well. Overall cleanly maintained, but dishes have little extra oil, which i am not a big fan of.
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Al Walker
Should have been done a review, I absolutely love this landmark. I just recently recommended a coworker that just moved to Richmond. She will be visiting this weekend. The only reason not a 5 star for service is every now and then depending on who is on the register may not be that inviting but that’s really just nitpicking at this point.
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