Gather twelve of your closest people. Chef Bosede arrives in full traditional attire, fills your home with the aromas of Nigeria, and cooks an unforgettable feast — right before your eyes.
Reserve Your EveningNow serving Todt Hill · Grymes Hill · All of Staten Island
Food. Music. Scents. Games. Stories. A night your guests will never stop talking about.
This is not a dinner party. This is a three-hour passage into Nigerian culture — the aromas of suya on the grill, the rhythm of Afrobeat filling the room, the warmth of shea and sandalwood in the air, the ancient Ayò game between courses. Every sense, awakened. Every guest, changed.
The doorbell rings. Chef Bosede stands in full traditional Yoruba attire — blue Ankara headwrap, flowing gown — with a warm smile and open arms. She welcomes each guest by name. Behind her: crates of the freshest ingredients, BOFAK signature spices, scented candles, and the carved wooden Ayò board. Your evening has begun.
The sounds of sizzling oil. The snap of Scotch Bonnet. The earthy depth of Locust Bean hitting a hot pan. Chef Bosede works her magic with BOFAK's signature spice collection while your guests gather around the kitchen, drawn in by aromas they've never experienced. She narrates every step — the origin of each spice, the village where the recipe was born.
Shea butter. Sandalwood. Rich oud. The air itself transforms. Combined with the Nigerian spices now dancing through every room, your home doesn't feel like your home anymore. It feels like Lagos. Like Ibadan. Like your grandmother's kitchen on a Sunday afternoon. Eyes close. Shoulders drop. The night deepens.
Plates arrive. Jollof Rice with a perfect crust. Suya with ground peanuts. Egusi thick with greens. Pepper Soup that makes your temples sweat. Every dish tells a story. The table is loud now — the kind of loud where everyone is reaching, sharing, arguing about who got the last piece of plantain. This is the feeling.
There's always a moment. The fork hits the mouth. The eyes widen. The laugh escapes before words can form. That's the BOFAK moment — the instant when someone tastes something they didn't know existed and realizes they can never go back to not knowing it. That's when the table gets truly alive.
Between courses, Chef Bosede brings out the carved wooden board. The rules are simple. The strategy is not. Seeds are placed in pits, moved in arcs, captured through patience and foresight. Within minutes, the table has divided into teams. There's trash talk. There's strategy. There's someone studying the board like their life depends on it. The winner takes home a BOFAK gift.
The Afrobeat playlist has been building all night. Fela. Burna Boy. Wizkid. By now, someone is out of their chair. Then another. Then the whole room. Nobody planned to dance. But when Nigerian food and Nigerian music fill the same space, the body has no choice. This is the part nobody expected — and the part everyone remembers.
Between the noise and the dancing, there are quieter moments too. A couple by the window with their drinks, lit by candlelight. A friend telling a story they've never told before. The kind of openness that good food and good company create — the kind of connection that a restaurant could never hold. This is why it happens in your home.
Just when they thought the night was over — one more surprise.
12 guests per experience · 3 hours · served in your Staten Island home
Send each guest home with the full BOFAK spice collection — five signature Nigerian spice jars, a handwritten-style letter from "A Nigerian Mother," Mom's Starter Recipes card with QR code to video tutorials, and a Nigerian flag pin. The gift that turns one dinner into a lifetime of cooking.
"Thank you for making our night unforgettable."
The table tells the story. The spice jar stays. The memory never leaves.
Not just a meal. A memory that changes how you gather.
Pick the experience level and your preferred evening
Invite your people — family, friends, colleagues
Chef Bosede arrives with everything — ingredients, spices, scents, games, gifts
Three hours of food, culture, music, laughter, and memories
Tell us about the evening you're imagining. We'll take it from there.
When you sit down at a BOFAK table, you're doing more than eating. You're lifting someone up.
Twenty-five percent of every dollar from your evening goes directly to the Azgari Foundation — funding Nigerian entrepreneurs who are building businesses from the ground up, and supporting at-risk youth in America who need someone to believe in their potential before anyone else will.
That means your Jollof Rice funds a woman's first market stall in Lagos. Your Pepper Soup helps a teenager in the Bronx get the mentorship that changes their trajectory. Your laughter around that table echoes further than you'll ever know.
There's a particular pride that comes with knowing your joy created someone else's opportunity. That the best night you've had in years was also the beginning of something for someone who needed it. This is the BOFAK way — we don't separate celebration from purpose. We believe they were always meant to be the same thing.
So when you raise your glass at the end of the evening, know this: you didn't just host a dinner party. You invested in a future. And that investment tastes like home.
Book Your Evening With Purpose