Zion Kitchen Lounge & Cafe

First and foremost, I'm a cook. So I enjoy patronizing restaurants. And will leave a great deal of tip as a way to show my support for a well cooked meal, and great service in general. Moreso to say, my experience over the years eating at Zion Kitchen hasn't being any short of an adventure, as I'm thrilled by the varieties and long list of option on the menus. The environment has continue to improve incase it's being a while you stopped by to eat out. Moving forward, trailing back to September 2018, me and my company attended a Afro Delicious event presented by DC Mayor, Muriel Bowser. And although, It wasn't to my very knowledge of the hosts of Restaurant that'll be in attendants until I came to find out the very day. And you best believe I wasn't surprised to know Zion Kitchen was among a selected few African restaurants like Nando's Peri-Peri (South Africa), Zenebech (Ethiopia), 1230DC(Ghana), Arose (Morocco) invited to host this indoor event. Obviously, this speak volumes of the platform Zion Kitchen has embarked on. Thus, if you're still exploring your options, or new to the DMV area, I strongly recommend Zion Kitchen! Cheers and thank me later.

This is the worst peanut butter stew ever. Save yourself the trip your not missing anything at all. This is the full $20 plate of peanut butter stew smh. 1 piece of protein, spoiled rice and badly cooked stew

I always wanted to try this restaurant but the outside is so dark it looks closed. I decided to stop finally and they are indeed open. The cashier looked like she was sizing me up a little before she finally greeted me and asked what I wanted. After rattling off my order without reviewing the menu she managed a grin. I ordered the jollof, stew fish and egusi. The stew fish was good but the egusi lacked flavor and a lot of the water from the rice was still present. I did go back later in the week and ordered the same thing. This time, the stew fish was horrible! The stew was very thin like ketchup water and the skin on the fish was really soft as if it wasn't cooked enough to crisp up the skin before adding it to the stew. The egusi lacked even more flavor and the jollof was made better however... something plastic must have broken in the preparation process and two pieces were in the rice. I had high hopes for this place but oh well... I tried.

Highly disappointed..This place is not what it used to be .. food tasted old and stale servers just don't care about service, they just want to move on to the next customer.I used to love coming here for a taste of back home ... but I can't come back here again waste of money and gas making the trip to DC from VA

Mid ... I've had way better west African food. The peanut butter soup was good. The egusi was a 1 . If I was blindfolded, I wouldn't know what I was eating. Fufu was good but not enough

I received a meal here via the too Good To Go app which helps connect to local businesses to eaters that want to fight food waste. Because of the nature of the app, you don't know exactly what you're going to get but you get it for a discount price. I got a very large portion of some spicy rice and two big pieces of what I later learned were chicken and fish. They were all so very spicy. Lots of bones in the fish. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get any other items of the menu I guess I'll have to come back and try them myself. The ambiance of the restaurant is very bare-bones and a little dirty and the staff was not overly friendly.

The peanut butter stew is not vegan it has fish bones in it. I'm not vegan but I ordered the vegan entree. Some people have fish allergies so this isn't a good sign. Just because you didn't add extra meat to it doesn't make it vegan. If it is cooked with meat or fish it isn't vegan.

I ordered the jollof rice with chicken. The chicken was so small and so dry. Everything was flavorless. they gave a good portion for the rice, but it's not my favorite out of other places in DC.

I walked to this place from my office down the street to meet there homophobic and colorist staff that called me yellow! After I orderd and paid 19.25$ to receive three very small pieces of beef and when I called to ask why I was met with a rude tone and told I could get more next time I returned!

I'm only giving one star because you need to give a star. This was the most disappointing and disgusting meal i've ever had to eat. For starters when i arrived, the ladies were extremely disinterested and rude, selecting meat in front of me so they could give me the one with only bones. The rice was INEDIBLE, after i had to remind the lady to give me my rice that i ordered, she gave me day old, rotten rice that smelled foul the minute i opened the bag, the asun was undercooked and hard we only ate it because we were hungry, the buka stew tasted desperately in need of some seasoning and like it could give a horse cardiac arrest sooo much oil. i am extremely disappointed because i drove 30 minutes and didn't check every bag individually... i am absolutely appalled as i spent over 100 dollars on a lot of food for my family. I demand a refund and for this business to be SHUT DOWN. these people are sick and if i get a stomach ache from eating this poison i will be charging them the bill! DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!