BLD BY PLAY LEKKI | RESTAURANT REVIEW

It’s been a while since I did a restaurant review and now I don’t need to explain myself anymore -you know why I couldn’t na. LOL. 

WHO I WENT WITH

Myself Bobo and Chief went there-our first review together-Chief was such a good baby because he slept all through! So Bobo and I decided to visit this new spot in Lekki, it’s BLD by Play. BLD stands for Breakfast Lunch Dinner and from what I gather, “PLAY” is a happening club in the Buj (Abuja). We planned to go for the breakfast but Chief kept me up all night and before I could gather myself out of the house it was 2:00pm. Nothing spoil.

AMBIANCE AND HOSPITALITY

There were 3 different areas because it was a combination of a restaurant, bar and lounge…I liked it. They had a lounge are called The Louvre-beautiful decor. Then there was the roof top bar which I liked also-you can just chill there make breeze dey blow you and you can have a good view of the Lekki area. We spent most of the time in the restaurant downstairs.

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The restaurant

The lounge area-Louvre

Female toilet

WHAT WE HAD

There were about  food items on display, Jollof rice, Coconut rice, Dodo, Chicken and Corn soup,Peppered Gizzard, Yam porridge, Spaghetti and Cheese, Potato something, Corned beef stew, Orange Chicken, Fried Yam, and Fish in butter and something-they didn’t write the name and I have forgotten, but that was my favourite item. 

So now to what we had- I had the Jollof and mixed it with Coconut rice, then I added that Fish in butter something- it was so yummy that I had to go for round two of that fish. The Jollof rice is better than average and they could do better with the coconut rice but the sauce really helped. I used the Peppered Gizzard for the Jollof and the Fish sauce for the Coconut Rice = make sense.  I had another round of Yam Porridge and Orange Chicken- the Yampo was really good-it had vegetables in it. 

Yam porridge

The fish in something

My first round!

I ordered for a glass of Chapman -which I actually really liked-the only Chapman I like better than theirs is the one I had at Grills In and Out. I tasted Bobo’s Pina Colada…errr….it was just there. 

Pina colada

DAMAGE DONE

This is the cheapest buffet I know in Lagos wey make sense; it was N2500 per person and remember there were about 12 items on display – not counting the salad bar.  The Pina Colada was N2000 (well, this one is expensive sha) . The Chapman was 1500. E be like say we make up for the buffet price with the drinks. We bought a bottle of water too…If there’s anything I could change about restaurants that serve buffets it is this! Give us free water-a bottle of water is only N50…

RECOMMENDATIONS 

Here are a few pointers I’d like to give (hopefully the management reads this): 

1. Train your waiters and staff to be more proactive-this place opened like 2 weeks ago, I expected someone to suggest something on the menu, tell us that there was a lounge inside and upstairs-just give us a warm welcome. 

2. Dear management, give us 1 free bottle of water for each person that pays for a buffet-this will be a major selling point since I don’t think any restaurant in Lagos does this. Even that Intercontinental Hotel where we paid like 10k did not give us water upon all our money. Please consider this. 

Will I go back again? Of course! Where else will see buffet at N2500?