Buka

Great food especially the pounded yam and egusi
Great service

I'm just repeating here what others have said but it is important to keep the reviews up to date.
Service was terrible, friendly but terrible, long wait times for everything, the waitress would disappear for LONG periods of time 10-15 mins leaving all the tables waiting. Other tables were served first and they received food and drink before us even though we came in first.
Lighting is bad, room is laid out like a cafeteria, but prices do not reflect this, the music stopped and was never switched back on. The food was okay, the steak was dry and chewy and overpriced, the fried yams were tasteless. The Fufu and goat stew was very nice....extremely spicy.....which I like. We were set to order more food than we did but were scared to because of the long waits and incompetent waitress, who apologized constantly.
Service was so bad that after receiving our beers we almost paid and walked out there and then and started to look for other places to eat in the area. I am not sure how they pay the rent and taxes on this business because it can't make much money! This place could be awesome with a new management team. We will not be coming back and I recommend you look elsewhere.

My first experience dining Nigerian. I had lunch here and the restaurant was relatively empty so customer service was not an issue.

In terms of the food, it was a very good experience. The Fufu was tasty with the today's based chicken stew. The grilled shrimp is definitely worth trying.

Price is relatively high, but how many Nigerian restaurants can you find in Brooklyn.

I love trying foods from different countries. It was my first time in this restaurant. A friend invited me out and i was excited to go. Everything was very normal. The wait time wasn't long and our waitress was very nice and informative as we didn't know what to order. I chose the grilled red snapper dish with spinach and plum wine to drink that would be in a bottle. Then everything went down hill starting with my trip to their bathroom. That room was so dark, I could hardly find the toilet and was scared I might pee on my pants. I went back to my table and my drink came in. I was expecting a small bottle but what they gave me was a whole wine bottle! And i was the only one to drink it! I've had some japanese plum wine before so I was expecting the same taste. That s**t tasted soo nasty and rancid. I kept asking myself if this was normal since its a Nigerian place. I eventurally returned it and they didnt charge me for it. My food finally came and I tell you, that fish was the worst smell I've ever smelled in my life. The worst smell you can think of. It smelled like it had been sitting out for days and it was tough to eat. I think they tried to mask the smell with ginger powder, like the chef knew it was bad. But I was still telling myself, maybe it was normal here because i knew what grilled fish is supposed to smell and taste like. I didn't want to tell the waitress about it because i already returned the wine so i stayed with it until i couldn't take it anymore and ate the other dishes. Worse came to worst for me a few days later when i ended up with severe and extremely painful constipation that lasted 4 days. I knew it was the fish because of that rancid smell coming from my toilet when i finally went. My friend also had stomach cramps for 2 days. Her food was spicy. Lastly, enter at your own risk. Make certain that your dish is well cooked and smells good. Don't hesitate to change it. I give this place an F- .

So, we're on a quest to try restaurants with cuisines we've never tried before and Nigeria comes up. If you can get over the inexperienced/inattentive/relaxed service (it took a pretty long while for us to get our food, and this was after they gave us someone else's order) and the unfortunate DOH rating in the window (the restaurant was really busy on Sat night, so at least the food is turning over), you can actually have a really interesting meal at Buka, one unlike anything you've had before. For starters, when you look at the menu, there's a number of dishes and ingredients you've probably never heard of before. Secondly, when they say something is spicy, they mean Serious Business, and this is from someone who loooves sweat-inducing, lip-numbing food. Lots of vegetarian-friendly options here, I really liked the akara fried bean cakes and the asaro (yams with unknown herbs and a super flavorful chili sauce). The tuwo cornmeal fufu was also good but a bit bland after the fireworks of the asaro; if only they'd served us both items at the same time, it would have been a perfect pairing. Finally, the palm wine was intriguing but it's actually non-alcoholic and tastes like a herbal soda. Not something I'd tried again, but a neat experiment and the label ("bottled by the Authority of Federal Institute of Industrial Research and Technology") was worth some anthropological scrutiny. All in all, a very fun pseudo-trip to Nigeria!