Best West African: Ch\u00f2pnBl\u00e1\u00bb\u008dk<\/b><\/p>\n
Ch\u00f2pnBl\u00e1\u00bb\u008dk is Houston at its most flavorful. Founded by Ope Amosu, a Houston-born James Beard semifinalist, the West African pop-up and food hall hit turned into a vibrant Montrose destination last fall. Bites show off bold West African flavors \u2013 think Buka Bl\u00e1\u00bb\u008dk (red stew with tender short rib, rice and beans), Smokey Jollof Jambalaya, Polo Club Suya skewers and the decadent Dodo Old Fashioned cocktail starring sweet plantain and bourbon.<\/p>\n
401 Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n 281-631-5009<\/p>\n chopnblok.co<\/a><\/p>\n This article appears in Jan 1 \u2013 Dec 31, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \t\tTagged: Africa<\/a>,\u00a0Best of Houston<\/a>,\u00a0Best West African<\/a>,\u00a0Ch\u00f2pnBl\u1ecdk<\/a>,\u00a0Community<\/a>,\u00a0food<\/a>,\u00a0Homepage<\/a>,\u00a0jollof<\/a>,\u00a0Local<\/a>,\u00a0restaurant<\/a>,\u00a0spices<\/a>,\u00a0stew<\/a>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best West African: Ch\u00f2pnBl\u00e1\u00bb\u008dk Ch\u00f2pnBl\u00e1\u00bb\u008dk is Houston at its most flavorful. Founded by Ope Amosu, a Houston-born James…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[7779,174102,179847,179848,718,990,12730,4345,179849,425,8463,55527,179850,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-373672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-best-of-houston","10":"tag-best-west-african","11":"tag-chopnblok","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-homepage","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-jollof","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-restaurant","19":"tag-spices","20":"tag-stew","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115536817326775845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}