Overall, the dining choices in Monrovia are rather decent. Anything other than Lebanese and Liberian food is usually pricey, however there are a few affordable options.
Casablanca
Excellent Moroccan cuisine at the top of Broad Street. Again, quite costly, but delicious tagines (the chicken with raisins is particularly good.)
Diana’s
On Center Street, there’s a great lunch restaurant. Excellent falafel and Lebanese sandwiches. +1 (231) 656 3333
Golden Beach Restaurant & Bar
2nd Street (Sinkor region), +231 6-821-717. The head chef of Chez Christophe in San Francisco, CA, owns an American-owned Continental restaurant that serves seafood, pizza, and superb French cuisine. Enjoy your supper on the beach with personalized seating. French onion soup, filet mignon with mushroom sauce, lobster tails, pan fried fish with creamy bell pepper sauce, and thin crust pizza are all excellent choices. This is the only restaurant that is right on the beach. Because of the enormous number of security officers stationed here to safeguard clients, this is the most favored location for United Nations employees.
Great Wall
On Tubman Boulevard, there’s some quite nice genuine Chinese cuisine. In the front room, there is hot pot (shabu shabu). Karaoke parties may be held in the back room.
Le Griot Cafe
Opposite the American Embassy is an outdoor bar/restaurant that serves a daily African special as well as a Sunday brunch that includes everything from African dishes to a Southern Creole buffet. Wireless internet is available in the Friday Happy Hour Grill Bar. +231 7 155 242 or +231 6 815 242 for cell phones
Jamal’s Boulevard Cafe
On Tubman Boulevard and Sinkor, there is a very reasonably priced restaurant that provides pizza/Lebanese/International food. Saturday happy hour includes a live Liberian band. There is pizza delivery available. +231 77969969 cell
The Living Room (Royal Hotel Sushi Restaurant)
Sinkor is located on Tubman Boulevard between 14th and 15th Streets. Expensive, particularly for lousy sushi. The ambiance is quite pleasant and elegant; you could nearly be in New York. Almost. The Royal Hotel also includes a Western/Lebanese restaurant with a tasty chicken burger. Pirate (seafood) soup is also tasty.
Mamba Point Hotel
+231 6-477-477. The city’s second sushi restaurant; the cuisine is similar to that found at the Royal.
Dona Maria
Tubman Blvd at 15th St., land side, +231 6-439-439.A wonderful small ice cream parlor/pizza/sandwich business with reasonable prices.
P.A.’s Rib House
Near Spriggs-Payne Airfield, +231 77-766-555, +231 6-899-998, +231 6-599-322. American-style grilled ribs that are very tasty. Service is sluggish, as it is in most Monrovia eateries, and things on the menu are not always available.
Ro-zi’s – N’yla Café
+231 5-516-500. Bestman Road in Airfield, Sinkor, Liberian fusion restaurant – you’ll notice signage guiding the way off of Tubman Blvd. and Old Road. Excellent food with a wonderful “New York City meets West Africa” theme. In addition, it caters and delivers.
Sajj House Restaurant
Tubman Blvd, Sinkor (at 18th St.), (231) 7255.A venerable Lebanese restaurant offering outside eating, a large screen TV, and wi-fi internet, as well as a diverse cuisine. Cell phone number is “SAJJ” (7255)
Taaj
Indian cuisine on 5th Street (beach side) and Tubman Boulevard. Excellent Baigan Bharta (eggplant). On Thursday evenings, it’s the location of an expat trivia game.
B First
13th St., Sinkor (Beach side). Sinkor has an excellent and reasonably priced Bangladeshi restaurant.
Tides
The water’s edge (between Glamour and the garage). Excellent setting with a view of the lake, very inexpensive meals, and a large selection of drinks.