About 70% of Lagos workers have to rush out of the house on weekdays because they want to be at work early. If you have heard of Lagos traffic, it’s such a menace! This explains why it may be hard to turn on the gas cooker or cook some meals to take along to work. Some people don’t even eat breakfast, so they look forward to lunch. While it is important to fill up your stomach because you have been working all morning, you also want to save some money while at it. We mean, you don’t have to spend too much looking for a decent meal. If you work in Lagos or recently moved to Lagos for work, you may not have to worry about your lunch too much.

The Restaurant Business in Lagos, Nigeria

As of September 2023, Lagos accounted for a total of 598 restaurants dispersed over the mainland and island. This reveals that there are quite a lot of people in the restaurant business and to start doesn’t exactly come off as easy. To start your own restaurant business, you most likely need a lot of funds, the best land location, a target audience, and a roadmap. Yes, a roadmap because money and location alone don’t do it because you have to design how you need to run your business and what you need to do to attract and retain your customers. While this is just by the way, this list curated below is for Lagos workers who really need to find good and affordable restaurants.

Lagos worker? See these restaurants near you

Whether you work on the Island or mainland, you can request lunch from any of these restaurants at a very affordable price.

The Place Restaurant

With over 35.2k followers on Instagram, you already know that “The Place Restaurant” serves its customers well. The restaurant is located in different locations within Lagos which include Ikeja Aviation Mall, Ikeja GRA, Alausa Ikeja, Ikotun, Ikorodu, Ogudu, Ogba, Maryland, Lekki, and the like. You can walk into any of these restaurants, or better still, order online.

The menu at the place restaurant includes:

Jollof Rice, plantain and chicken
Fried Rice, plantain and chicken
Amala and Gbegiri, Ewedu and meat
Spaghetti and Turkey
Pounded Yam and Egusi
Yam
Afang soup
Asun
Parfait
Ice cream
Hotdogs and more

Chicken Republic

Chicken Republic is known to be one of the restaurants with the cheapest food packages. The restaurant has meals for as low as N800 per plate which means that if you have N800 or more, you can eat lunch. Another thing is, a free drink comes with every meal you buy. Also, you don’t even need to bother about the proximity to your place of work as Chicken Republic often offers free delivery or discounts on delivery. The restaurant has several branches in Lagos state, so you can be assured that it is always closer to you. Some of the meals on their menu include:

Jollof Rice
Fried Rice
White Rice and Beans
Coleslaw
Moin Moin
Chicken
Spaghetti
Burger
Chickwiz
Shawarma
Meat pie

Korede Spaghetti

The name is “Korede Spaghetti” but it offers more than just spaghetti to its customers. The price of the meals ranges from N1800 – N2200 and this means that, with N2000 or more, a tasty meal is ready. The restaurant runs a delivery service but also has strategic openings at Sabo, Surulere, and Unilag. The food menu includes:

Stir Fry Spaghetti, Turkey and Plantain
Basmati Suya Rice
Stir Basmati Fried Rice with Egg
Fried Yam with Egg/Chicken/Ponmo sauce
Suya Rice/Nimota Rice
Sausage, Plantains, and Turkey (as sides)

Korede Spaghetti gives you the option to walk in for your lunch, send a rider to pick it up or get it delivered to you steaming hot. If you are a big fan of rice and spaghetti, KS (Korede Spaghetti) can serve you well.

Chefvys Fast Food

Chefvys fast food has a mini order of N500. Sounds good? While the mini order may not be enough to cater to your hunger, you can order more than a portion. The restaurant is open at Aguda, Yaba-Alagomeji, and Lekki for Lagos workers who want to stop by for lunch. If you are not looking to leave the office, you can also order online and get it delivered to you. The meal menu at Chefvys contains:

Chicken Casero
Spaghetti
Special Fried Rice
Jollof Rice
Rice and Beans
Corn Beans
MoiMoi
Eba and Egusi
Semo and Eforiro
Cow Leg, Grilled Chicken, Ponmo, Beef, Turkey, Plantain, Eggs (proteins)

Chevys Fast Food works from 9:00 a.m – 9:30 a.m. every day.

Smokey Jollof

If you are at work and suddenly get the jollof rice cravings, maybe, it’s time to check out SmokeyJollof. A regular lunch pack of jollof rice and turkey would only cost you N2500. This simply means that you can spend less than N3000 to satisfy your cravings. The juicy part is this – any order on or before 5 p.m. on Tuesdays gets free delivery on Thursdays. So, if you want to save some more money, you may want to take this opportunity. The menu at SmokeyJolllof says:

Smokey Special Chinese Rice
Basmati Chicken Fried Rice
Moimoi

You can even order in large bowls or portions if you don’t want to start cooking when you return home after work.

Papa’s Grill

Papa’s Grill is an affordable and 5-star rated restaurant that has a location both on the island (Lekki) and the mainland (Yaba, Ikeja). So, wherever you work in Lagos, you are not far from Papa’s Grill. Besides, they also run a delivery service and you may not have to leave your office. The restaurant opens every day from 9 am – 8 pm and delivers to your location within this period too. The food menu at Papa’s Grill contains:

Small Chops
Asun
Peppered Gizzard
Gizzdodo
Peppered snail
Chicken
Yam chips
Roasted plantain
Sweet potato fries
Fried plantain

You can buy yourself a lunch for as low as N2000.

The Burger Place

When a restaurant is called “the burger place“, then it sounds like they must sell the best burger there is. Who says lunch cannot be burger? It is because they have not tried this one. The burger place opens from 9 am – 9 pm daily and they can deliver to your workplace when you place an order during lunch. A mini order is N2000 and the burger is not the regular one. You must want to see what their menu looks like; here you go:

Crispy chicken burger
Double-decker chicken cheeseburger
Chicken Shawarma
Suya Shawarma
Barbeque beef
Suya Burger
Yankee Burger

The burger place understands the need for a cool drink to go with your food. So, they have a list of drinks that you can pick from to have an entirely great lunch.

AmalaSkyLagos

According to several Lagosians, Amala is a great meal and Amalasky remains one of the restaurants to provide Lagosians with the best traditional meals. While you may want to solely visit the restaurant for Amala, there are other dishes that may catch your fancy; meals like:

MoinMoin
Eba
Fufu
Semo
Ewa-igoyin
Jollof Rice
Fried Rice
Ofada Rice
Gbegiri
Ewedu
Efo riro
Okro
Afang
Jollof Spaghetti
Plantain
Porridge
White Rice
Beans

It looks like Amalasky Lagos is out to cater to all your food cravings and you may want to give them a try one of these days while you are at work. The restaurant works for 24 hours daily, so you can send in your order when you feel like having lunch.

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro restaurant also serves a variety of food to people who walk into their outlets or order via their website. Also, on certain days of the week, they offer free delivery services to their customers. If you are lucky enough, this means that you only get to pay for the food you requested without bothering about the delivery bill. The meals on the food menu at Kilimanjaro include:

Jollof Rice with Chicken/Turkey/Beef
Rice and Beans
Chinese Rice
Stir fry spaghetti
Fried Rice with Chicken/Turkey/Beef
Beans and Plantain
Semovita with Egusi/Efo riro
Ofada rice
Sausage roll
Doughnut
Chicken and Chips
Doughnut
Shawarma
Scotch Egg

The list is long but the point is, they can send a good lunch to your place of work at a very affordable price.

Restaurants that offer you affordable Lunch as a Lagos Worker