Alino African Bar and Restaurant is a casual dining venue at 11 Narborough Road in Leicester. It combines a substantial African food menu with beer, wine and other drinks, creating a social setting for individual meals, family visits and evenings with friends.
Starters introduce several traditional flavours through puff puff, chicken gizzards, pepper soup and grilled goat meat. Fresh fish pepper soup and nkwobi offer further routes into the menu, giving diners the chance to begin with dishes that are less common in a general British restaurant.
Rice, stews, soups and curries form the core of the main selection. Egusi and ndolé appear alongside grilled fish, chicken and other meat dishes, while plantain, yam and vegetable choices help complete a table of contrasting textures and sauces.
African juices, beer and wine accompany the food, and takeaway and delivery are available alongside dine in service. The broad mix of West and Central African recipes makes Alino useful both to diners looking for familiar cooking and to newcomers who want to explore several dishes together.
Address: 11 Narborough Road, Leicester LE3 0LE, England
Alino African Bar and Restaurant Menu
Appetisers and Starter
Begin with a bite
Puff Puff x 10
Chicken Wings x 6
Fish Pepper Soup
Fried Chicken Gizzards
Taba or Soya or Yamachoma
Lip-smacking traditional grill goat meat
Nkwobi
Classic, and very popular traditional delicacy from Nigeria made from cooked cow legs smothered in thick yellow spices sauce.
Roasted Peanuts
Crunchy and flavorful peanuts, perfect for snacking.
Corn On The Cob x 2
Rice
This is a very popular freshly made rice dish in most African countries. Made with tomatoes, onions and special spices.
Fried Rice with Chicken
Jellof Rice with Chicken
Jellof Rice with Fish
Jellof Rice with Beef
Fried Rice with Fish
Jellof Rice with Assorted Meat
Fried Rice with Beef
Egussi
Special melon seed cooked with selelcted African spices. Enjoy with pounded yam.
Egussi with Fish
Egussi with Assorted Meat
Egussi with Beef
Okra Soups / Laadies' Fingers Bhindi
This tasty dish has many health benefits. Enjoy with pounded yam, fufu (cassava flour) or sadza.
Okra Soup with Chicken
Okra Soup with Beef
Okra Soup with Fried Fish
Okra Soup with Assorted Meat
ERU Soups / OKAZI Soups
This is a nutritious dish made from a wild vegetable leaf mixed with palm oil and traditional African spices. Enjoy with pouned yam, fufu (cassava flour) or garl.
ERU Soup / OKAZI Soup
Goat Curry
Goat Curry
Ogbono Soups
Ogbono soup is a nigerian dish made with grinded ogbono seeds and some special spices. Enjoy with pounded yam, fufu (cassava flour) or garri.
Ogbono Soup with Beef
Ogbono Soup with Fish
This is a nutritious dish made from a rare vegetable leaf mixed with palm oil and traditional African spices.
Ogbono Soup with Assorted Meat
Chef's Specials
(Tuesday – Sunday)
Poulet Dg
This fricassee of chicken mixed with fried plantain, fresh vegetables, and savory special spices.
Stew Dishes
A blend of tomatoes, and some special seasoning spices. Enjoy with plain boiled rice
Chicken Stew
Beef Stew
Assorted Meat Stew
Fish Stew
Fish Grill
A Spicy Cameroonian style, marinated grilled fish
Tilapia
Croaker
Chicken Grills
Flavoursome grilled chicken
Chicken Grill
Maffe
Grilled peanut stew cooked with selected African spices. Enjoy with plain boild rice
Maffe with Beef
Maffe with Fresh Fried Fish
Maffe with Fish
Maffe with Chicken
Ndole (Bitter Leaf Stew)
Favourite Cameroonian dish made from bitter leaf balanced with white peanut in a blend of traditional spices. Enjoy with fried plaintain or plain boiled rice
Ndole with Chicken
Ndole with Beef
Ndole with Fried Fish
Veggie Delight / Fried Spinach
Enjoy with sadza, pounded yam or semolina
Veggie Delight or Fried Spinach With Chicken
Veggie Delight or Fried Spinach with Fried Fish
Veggie Delight or Fried Spinach with Assorted Meat
Fried Red Kidney Beans
Enjoy with fried plantain or plain boiled rice
Fried Red Kidney Beans with Chicken
Fried Red Kidney Beans with Fried Fish
Fried Red Kidney Beans with Assorted Meat
Vegetarian Dishes
All vegetarian dishes are served with one side of your choice
Fried Spinach
Sauteed Mixed Vegetables
Sauteed Beans
Fried Rice
Sides
Fried Plantain
Ripe plantain with its banana look contains more starch and less sugar. Very nutritious
Pounded Yam
A very popular Nigerian side dish made from boiled and pounded white yam
Fufu
Made with flour from cassava roots.
Boiled Rice
Garri / Eba
This is a fine to coarse granola flour made from cassava roots. A very popular accompaniment to African vegetable soup.
Sadza / Ugali / Nsima / Banku / Mealie-Meal
A steamed dumpling made from white maize flour.
Chips
Semolina
A course purified middling of durum wheat used to make couscous.
Atieke
A western African version of gari
Bobolo
Made from cassava tubers and cooked in leaves.
Rice & Peas
Chilli Sauce
African Juices
Fanta
Supermalt
Malta Guinness
Spirit Shots
Single – £4 | Double – £8
Courvoisier
Hennessy
Glenfiddich
Black Label
Famous Grouse
Jack Daniels
Captain Morgan Original
Cream
Baileys
African Beers
Trophy
Star
Goldberg
Palm Wine
Large Guinness
Small Guinness
Tusker
Soft Drinks
Ginger Beer Can
Coca Cola Can
Diet Coke
Fanta Can
Sprite
7 Up
Pepsi
Redbull
Water
J2O
Beers
Large Heineken
Small Heineken
Heineken Can
Large Stella
Small Stella
Stella Can
Corona
Large Budweiser
Small Budweiser
Vodka
Single – £4 | Double – £8
Sambuca
Smirnoff
Ciroc
Bacardi
Gordon’s
Grey Goose
Belvedere
Absolut
Wine
Glass £8 | Bottle £25