Berry Easter Weekend Part 2 - Lagos Grill Festival

This is the second part of my Easter weekend. I was supposed to do a little bit more (e.g. Saro, and go visiting friends) but someone's cake business spoiled my plans - yeah, yeah, bright side, more business means more money, blah blah. Being married to an entrepreneur can be tough sometimes - you make plans, but business has to go on, and occasionally trump your activities.

Well, I'm sha very very happy that I chose to go to the Lagos Grill Festival sans Cakes. He was too busy on Sunday, and had already canceled postponed our Saro The Musical plans. Luckily for me, Chef Fregz, (who was the chef at the birthday dinner party where I got engaged) got me complimentary tickets to the festival. I very quickly shifted my focus and decided to go with a couple of friends.

All I know is that I have to detox for the next week and a half, because I'm afraid the 10 pounds I lost may have come back this weekend alone!

THANKS CHEF FREGZ!!! I terrorize him a little too much on Instagram :(

There were bunches and bunches and bunches of restaurants there, such as Grills In & Out. They do a Mongolian Stir-fry where you select your raw meats and veggies and it's all cooked for you. My friend got food from here but thought it was just aight.

There were fun activities for kids.

After looking around to see what there was to offer, Lola told me she'd gotten Jack Daniels popsicles from a stand. I don't like popsicles generally, but boy am I glad I got one!!! It was soooooooo good! Look for them on Instagram - RoyalPopsPopsicles or visit their website. They have non-alcoholic ones too.

Ran into Toju - remember my dress? She's a designer-to-the-stars :p

I also saw Blondie - remember my pretty makeup you guys liked by Luxe Beauty Lounge?

Oh, this was another event that started a little late. Chef Fregz was supposed to do a cooking demo that was supposed to start at 1, but I think he started closer to 5pm, because they were still setting up the stage at 4:30pm.

After waiting for a whiiiiiiile, I decided to go looking for food.

 

I settled on Bole, with fish as God intended bole to be eaten!!! (Not fake groundnuts)

And I got fish, chicken and fries to take home. I was lured by what they said was "special sauce." Let's just say I was scooping up the sauce and licking my fingers at home. I couldn't even bother taking photos of the food. It was that good. And the fish was huge too! For just N1000?! Look for Lala's Grill - they service events too.

 By the time my food was ready, Fregz was already in action.

  

Fregz made Jack Daniels steaks 2 ways, and Chipotle Chicken Sliders. I think there's a similar recipe online somewhere.

I apologize to anyone who's hungry because of this post :p

This was a fun weekend and I hope you enjoyed my photos. Have a lovely week!