B.B. African & American Restaurant

I tried the Attieke Poisson which is Fried fish with couscous & some fried goat with sweet plantain. Goooodness the food was good, big portions & the owners were nice. Great Guinean food/​fast service! Open 24 hrs is a plus

Completely agree with Richard D: this is a friendly place with decent food, but it won’t rock your world.
Like most West African places in New York, B.B. doesn’t have a formal menu. When we went, there were only four items available: an okra stew, a groundnut (peanut) stew with unusually tender beef, a cassava leaf stew (which, oddly enough, tasted peanuttier than the groundnut stew), and some unusually firm whitefish stewed in a sweet, dark, vaguely tomato-​y sauce.
With the exception of the fish dish, I’d tried variations on everything else in other African (Senegalese, Guinean, Ivoirian, Ghanian, Liberian) restaurants, and B.B. didn’t quite measure up to most of the other spots – everything was perfectly good, but lacked the complex flavors of the best West African stews.
B.B. deserves a few bonus points for friendliness and the funkiest hybrid hot pepper and mustard sauce I’ve ever eaten. They also deserve points for being open 24 hours… and really, who doesn’t occasionally crave okra with hot mustard sauce in the Bronx at 3 in the morning?
Worth a stop if you’re in the neighborhood, but don’t expect your mind to be blown by anything besides maybe the mustard sauce.

Not hard to find, right on Webster Avenue with a big green awning, just south of the Cross Bronx.
According to Village Voice and NY Magazine, this is suppose to be the place for Sierra Leonean food in New York. But I’m not nearly knowledgeable enough to judge such claims.
My friend Steve and I stopped in here for lunch. There’s a seating area with a half dozen or so tables. There’s a big TV on the back wall which showed an English soccer match during our meal. Food gets ordered in the back room from a cafeteria style display. Our host then brought our meal out. He was friendly and helpful despite a bit of a language barrier.
We ordered two soups, and a plate of rice. The «soups» were very thick stews. One was identified to us as spinach, the other as okra. Both contained cassava leaf and meat, probably some part of the cow. The plate of rice was huge; the grains were bigger than rice I’m used to. The food was decent, but hardly revelatory. We also got a hot pepper with each dish. I can’t really recommend them — they were very spicy, but not in a tasty way. Of the two dishes, I definitely preferred the okra dish, but I’m not generally a big fan of cooked spinach. Steve didn’t seem to have much of a preference.
The prices were reasonable. Including several drinks from the cooler and a generous tip, our total cost was $ 22. No doubts on the authenticity either. But on the whole I just wasn’t that excited about the place.