Roots Restaurant & Cafe

4 Davidson Ajaegbu - 10 months ago

The food is really good and healthy here with customer friendly staff. I enjoyed my time there, a good place to bring family and kids and spend time with loved ones.

There's private spaces at affordable rates as well, it's kinda innovative in a city like Enugu.

4 fortune smith - 4 weeks ago

Lovely decor, spacious.
Attentive and professional staff.
Tasty, moderately-priced food with generous servings of soup.
From what I saw from the outside, I also think that their hygiene standards are better than most restaurants. I just hope they maintain the same standards behind the scenes where we can't see.
I will definitely be going back.

4 onize onwukeme - a year ago

The restaurant had great food, and the plates were big. Plus they do take-away packs when you can't finish your meal.

Also, they have private dining rooms upstsirs with nice views, and we enjoyed the quieter exclusive atmosphere. The private dining room I was in had a convenience, as well.

The customer service is good but there is some room for improvement.

Prices are cheap/affordable for the quality and quantity of the food.

Altogether an enjoyable cuisine and dining experience.

4 Dera Aneke - a year ago

I searched around for a chill place for a meet up, and this is one of the top recommendations. Very classy cafe with a pleasant and stylish interior you can find a lot of western food here. I got seated and the food was ready very quickly, delicious food with a nice display and a very clean seating area and rest room space
Great place to enjoy time alone or on a date. A bit pricey, however I'd say worth every penny spent there.
Ps: I love the sculptures at the entrance, I thought the leopard was real, as it was the first thing I saw????????

2 Damilola Balogun Ofoegbu - a year ago

I don’t think I would be visiting this restaurant when I visit Enugu again, I wanted to try out Emily restaurant as their food came highly recommended but they weren’t open. So we decided to try out this one instead.

When we drove in I was pretty much excited, beautiful environment, was appealing to the eyes, had a very African decor, carved animals, rafia mats, African prints etc.

When we got in I wasn’t really impressed by the interior, it was plain just a few African prints strung across the room and few paintings on the wall. Wasn’t too clean either as we had started eating b when the tables close to ours were being cleaned and the floor swept.

They had quite a robust menu but a few things weren’t available. The presentation wasn’t so pleasant as you can see from the picture, a few rice was strung across the plate, my soup was smeared around the rim of the plate.

We ordered Ofe Onugbu, Chinese shredded chicken sauce and plain rice and Afang soup.
The Onugbu wasn’t bad but wasn’t what I expected compared to Onugbu I’ve had in Anambra state. The goat meat was too small in my opinion plus there were no enough obstacles in the soup. The Chinese sauce and Afang were richer on my opinion as we ordered fish instead.

Their staff, not very professional, she kept going back and forth and left us in the middle of an order to greet other customers who stepped in. Food was overly delayed, service was very slow and they weren’t friendly. I noticed a couple of people came in but left because they couldn’t wait to be served.

Another very disappointing incident was my take out order, we ordered fish pepper soup, didn’t look appealing plus it had yams in it, the yams were really hard and the pepper soup had a stewy look. I also ordered for isi ewu but that order didn’t come through, after waiting for what felt like an eternity I was told it wouldn’t be possible. Imagine waiting for over an hour after your meal and then finally leaving without your order.

I think they were overwhelmed by the turn out but it’s the festive season, I expected more ends to ensure smooth running, they also need to pay attention to their interior decor. I definitely didn’t enjoy myself.

They also have private dinning rooms that go for N3,500 per hour, I didn’t see anything special about them. Their soups cost about N1, 000 exclusive of choice of proteins, swallow N200 each. Their rest room was pretty much ok but can be cleaner and leaving the tissue on top of the dusty window sill was very unhygienic.

Overall, the outdoor pictures were the only thing good about my experience.

4 Daniel Okeke - a year ago

We decided to eat in Roots on Christmas day.

I must commend one of their writing, "life is too short for bad food." And they proved it today...

With their well-prepared chicken vegetable sauce and Chapman on a Christmas afternoon.

However, I don't know if it was because of Christmas or unforeseen circumstances...

Their service wasn't as lovely as it was the previous time I ate here. They served us the sauce without a spoon, making scooping it tedious work. We ordered a spoon but it took them several minutes before it arrived.

Well, if you want a quiet place to eat in Enugu, this is one of the best.

4 Liesel81 - 2 years ago

Wow I love the interior deco and the ambience of this place. It's also well located, it gives visitors different views of the city through the large windows.

The food is good I had on first visit coffee (nescafe) and Waffel and on the second visit afang soup. There is always room for improvement the service could use a little more coordination and please please diversify on your coffee options.

I definitely recommend this place.