ChiChi Restaurant & Bar in Vanier

I wish I could return this food tonight, it so unfortunate you have closed and it’s late for me. The jollof rice is tasteless, I requested for ordinary rice and not basmati, I got basmati. I doubt if you do check your orders well before you deliver. This isn’t the first nor third time I’m experiencing this…I just hope you do something about it. If this was in the noon or if it was not this late. I would have return this food honestly. Dissatisfied with this food.

Came in over the weekend and ordered egusi soup which had way too much goat meat in it. Our server Anna was very sweet and sympathetic about the situation which makes me want to give the restaurant another shot!

So I usually buy white rice and stew with fish for $25 which is quite expensive to be honest, but I don’t care because it’s my favourite & this usually packed with an extra container for the stew&fish which means the rice is packed in the container below, so to my surprised on October 9 2024 everything was packed in one container with the same price ($25) which only means one thing the rice has been reduced I spoke to the lady at the bar who is quite nice & she referred me to lady in the kitchen. I heard the lady in kitchen mumbling the typical Nigerian elder how dare you question me or my service lady. She said & i quote “ this is how we have been dishing the food noting has changed” & I called her out on her lie because I was just yesterday and it was never like this I buy the same food at least 3/4 times a week & I have never received my food like that. If you go to other African restaurants like YKO you will get half chicken with jollof rice for way less than $25. When you try to support your own Nigerian communities it bites you back because of greed I’m never going back there too expensive & very unprofessional from the cook

The current person in the kitchen doesn't cook tasty food. The Egusi is tasteless with meat only Shaki and one beef with bone. This is awkward. The first lady in that kitchen makes us want to come here with assorted meat in the soup. It is different now, the current person in the kitchen is running this restaurant like it is one located in Onitsha. She doesn't listen to customers complain, she chooses those she will go to their table to listen to their complaint, if you come here alone, she will definitely won't pay attention to your complaint. Her style of service is disoriented. Unlike the former lady. Check up the toilet since the new person came, is messed up, dirty with no soap to wash hands. The floor of that toilet is dirty including the washing hand sink and mirror What attracts a lot of people here is the assorted meat in the soup, their hot pepper soup, white soup and a good quantity of rice and how clean the convenience room is- is not there anymore. Most annoying is immediately you wash your hands, the waitress will come to you immediately to pay without even asking if you like the food. Mr Okafor. Please pay more attention. We love to see your business flourish beyond this.

Happened upon this place by accident. Went inside and the interior is very nice. However, the staff is completely disengaged and more interested in playing with their phones than serving customers. The girl at the bar had absolutely no knowledge of the menu or what drinks they serve or how much anything costs and had to keep going into a back room to get another girl who seemed annoyed that she was being asked to do anything. Additionally, the girl at the bar over-poured, which is a losss of revenue for the owner. Put it this way, if Jon Taffer ever walked in, he'd be screaming at the owner to fire all the staff. We would have loved to have ordered food, but the staff didn't seem to care, so we just left after one drink. Crappy place. Won't be going back.

I went in with my family yesterday and the owner gave an awesome welcome to us, It gave me a Jahi-Abuja vibe-the building, decoration etc was on point, homely and so Nigeria-ish. The food I ordered personally was Poudo yam and Egusi soup, it so delicious and satisfying that I didn't eat till this afternoon. Our attendant Emmanuella was also great and pleasant. The only problem I had was the noise, if only the noise could be in another section... Overall, it was a wonderful experience and I will highly recommend it to others to visit Chichi. My wife still longs to have a taste of the food-Asun, white soup, jollof rice. Next time I visit Ottawa, I definitely must visit Chichi's Restaurant and I hope I find them even better!!!

Fried rice and plantains were excellent! Chicken was tasty, but as other reviews have stated, very, very tough. I've never had egusi before, but the one I received smelled like cigars and a horse stable, and tasted about the same. My body feels like it's haunted as I write this review.

First red flag, the security guard outside to greet us wearing a bulletproof vest and body cam and told us it was a bad area. We didn't get a menu because a lot of it was not available. We told our server our preferences and she gave us only 4 options (second red flag). Food came cold. Goat meat, chicken and plantain were tough. Manager came by, apologized then gave excuses like the goat meat serving dish was still warm and no vegetables because of weekend specials. As we were trying to leave the manager said they have lots of options but our bad experience was because we made bad selections.