Maestro Bar Restaurant

A Cameroonian place in London… Home away from home, couldn’t be happier!
The Maestro has everything I miss from home, and is the perfect place to go with my Cameroonian pals when we need our big dose of home food. Everything: from Ndole to plantain fries, Chicken DG to Pepper soup (not for me though, intolerant to chili), there’s everything to make us happy. It’s African food, so please be patient. It takes time and you’d better not be starving when you go there. African nights tend to be quite long and boozy! :)
Service wise, here again it’s the perfume of Cameroon. That warmth and family touch has no equal. I know I am being subjective and some expressions may be «unwelcoming» to non-​Cameroonians, and I get that. But still, this is home. With its good and bad sides, and that’s why we like it. The waiter who greets you with no smile, then brings you first drink with a quarter of a smile, then the second with half a smile, then your starter, and finally a full smile when you eat the main… When it’s time to hit the desert, you’re so full and happy that you talk to her like your sister. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But again, that’s home!
They regularly have live bands playing weekends. The Maestro becomes quite literally the first stop of the night: whiskey from 6 to 9, then dinner until 11, then whiskey again until 1 – 2 ish before hitting an African club in Peckham or Camberwell… The Maestro has it all and just gets it.
If you want a Europeanised restaurant with African food, turn around and go somewhere else… But If you want to experience a bit of Cameroon with no filter whatsoever, exactly the way it happens in some streets of Douala or Yaounde, then you are at the right place!