The latest installment of our film series OPEN follows Toronto chef Victor Ugwueke as he shops for and preps authentic Nigerian dishes from pounded yam to melon seed soup, all to the rhythm of Afrobeat.
Chef Victor Ugwueke grew up in his mother’s restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria. He was still in his teens when he opened a place of his own. Now he has brought his fresh, modern take on West African cuisine to Toronto—to Afrobeat Kitchen, the restaurant he named after his hero, musician Fela Kuti. Victor still shops and cooks the way his mother taught him, making everything from scratch. In the most diverse city on earth, there still aren’t that many places where customers are encouraged to eat with their hands. Victor is changing that.
For the latest installment of our series OPEN, we follow owner-chef Victor Ugwueke as he shops for and preps authentic Nigerian dishes from pounded yam to melon seed soup, all to the rhythm of Afrobeat.
