NYC's LAGOS is finger-licking good (11-28-25)

 We are always looking for better options around Times Square and lately it has not been so great, but I read an article ages ago in the Washington Post which recommended LAGOS at 727 Seventh Avenue(@49th St) so Sam and i tried it last night. It is next to that Gentlemen's Club on the east side of 7th Ave and the entry looked very similar with an outdoor podium (the guy was in the freezing cold 20 degree wind-chills) and a red carpet, so at first we were confused, but it is a separate entity, although we were carded and needed a license to get in which was scanned! The space is pretty neat and stretches back a way with one long banquette on the left side and tall backed chairs facing this. White marble tables are a contrast to the black chairs and black floors with some loud, but not invasive music. There were lots of crystal chandeliers that reminded us of the set from the matinée we had just seen, The Queen of Versailles!

The right side has a long bar with bar stools and the whole place was full at 5pm!

the menu has numerous vegetarian options, and the food is 100% African with great spice to boot. Sam had the Lagos Salad & Lagos Fried Rice (almost every dish can come with fish, shrimp, chicken or meat if you want for a surcharge), but I was blown away by the Per-Peri Chicken which was a gorgeous 1/2 chicken with crispy skin and a  superb slathering of spicy per-peri sauce on the skin and in a small cup on the side. A large portion of mashed sweet potato and sauteed veggies in a light sauce (that I could not figure out) were on the platter. It was the juiciest, moistest chicken I think i have ever had! We had room for dessert, but the options were not exciting, so we headed out back into the cold getting some fabulous chocolate barks up the street!

I would definitely return to Lagos as there were so many other dishes I wanted to try especially the other Jerk Chicken!