Bennachin Menu – New Orleans, LA

Type : African restaurant

Location : New Orleans, LA

Charming, intimate place for vegetarian-friendly West African fare served in art-filled surrounds. Based on 643 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price $$

✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery

Bennachin 70116

Address:
1212 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116

Phone: (504) 522-1230

Website:

Hours

Sunday 11 AM–9 PM
Monday

(Labor Day)
 Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 11 AM–8 PM
Thursday 11 AM–8 PM
Friday 11 AM–9 PM
Saturday 11 AM–9 PM

Menu

Drinks
Barajambo $3.50
Bottle Water $2.00
Coffee $2.00
Coke $2.00
Diet Coke $2.00
Gingero $3.50
Iced Tea $2.00
Root Beer $2.00
Sprite $2.00
Wonjo $3.50
Appetizers
Akara $9.00
Chicken On Stick $7.00
Doh Doh $9.00
Fish Pie $10.00
Lieo Sisay $10.00
Soups
Chicken Noodle $10.00
Gumbo $10.50
Kidney Bean $10.00
Lentil $10.00
Veggie Soup $10.00
Sides
Broccoli Side $9.00
Cabbage $10.00
Coconut Rice $9.00
Fu Fu $9.00
Jama Jama $9.00
Jollof Rice $9.00
Kone Beans $9.00
Leg Quarter $4.00
Roll $0.50
Lunch Specials
Baham Lunch
Sautéed vegetables in ginger, onion, garlic
sauce served with rice or cous cous		 $14.95
Bennachin Lunch
African jambalaya (jollof rice) served
with sautéed spinach		 $14.95
Cope Ni Cone Lunch
Boneless chicken and broccoli, sautéed in
ginger and garlic sauce, served with rice		 $14.95
Domoda Lunch
Beef and peanut stew served with rice		 $14.95
Jama Ni Mak Lunch
Sautéed spinach, fried plantains, and
coconut rice		 $14.95
Jamaican Chicken Lunch
Baked Chicken season with homemade
spices in a Caribbean sauce served with Sautéed
Vegetables and white rice		 $14.95
Jazz Fest Combo
Chicken in the stick, fried plantain
and sautéed spinach		 $15.95
Kone Ni Mak Lunch
Black-eyed peas in tomato and onion stew
served with fried plantains and coconut rice		 $14.95
Mburu Akara
Black-eyed pea fritters and tomato stew on
French bread		 $14.95
Red Beans Lunch $14.95
Shipa Shipa Lunch
Shrimp, celery, ginger in a tomato and
onion sauce served with rice		 $14.95
Sisay Singho Lunch
Baked chicken leg and thigh, served with
sautéed spinach, fried ripe plantains, and coconut rice		 $14.95
Yasa Lunch
Cabbage, carrots in onion and garlic sauce
served with rice or cous cous		 $14.95
Extra Beef $3.00
Beef / Lamb
Apricot Lamb
Baked lamb in ginger, garlic sauce
served with broccoli and cous cous or rice		 $19.95
Bennachin
Jambalaya served with sautéed spinach		 $18.95
Domoda
Beef, ground roasted peanut stew
served over rice		 $18.95
Egusi Soup
Beef, garlic, ginger,
spinach in ground melon seed sauce
served with fufu or rice		 $19.95
Kembel
sautéed lamb strips,
bell pepper in ginger sauce served
with rice or broccoli		 $19.95
Ndole
Beef, spinach, ground fresh peanuts
in ginger and garlic sauce served with fried ripe
plantains and coconut rice		 $18.95
Okra Soup
Beef, okra, spinach served with rice or fufu		 $18.95
Red Beans $17.50
Sauci Marine
Beef, potato in onion and ginger
sauce served with rice or cous cous		 $18.95
Extra Beef $3.00
Poultry
Jamaican Chicken
Baked chicken seasoned with homemade
spices in a Carribean sauce served with sauteed
vegetables(cabbage, zuchinni, squash, and carrots)
and white rice		 $18.95
Sisay Singho
Baked chicken leg and thigh served with
fried ripe plantains, sautéed spinach, and coconut rice		 $18.95
Yasa
Chicken, cabbage, carrots served over rice
or cous cous		 $18.95
Sisay Dourang
Boneless chicken and roasted peanut in a
thick light brown gravy served over rice		 $18.95
Cope Ni Makondo
Marinated grilled chicken breast served
with fried ripe plantains, sautéed spinach,
and coconut rice		 $18.95
Cope Mustard
Chicken breast broiled in mustard sauce
served with boiled potato and broccoli		 $18.95
Cope Ni Conc
Boneless chicken, broccoli, ginger, and
garlic sauce served over rice		 $18.95
Nsouki Alyse
Boneless chicken, shrimp, and cashews
in a thick light brown gravy served over rice		 $19.95
Seafood
Sauci Maganga
(Potato and Shrimp Stew) Shrimp,
potato sautéed in ginger, garlic sauce served
with rice or cous cous		 $19.95
Thiebujin
African Jambalaya cooked with Tilapia Fillet		 $19.95
Fish Stew
Tilapia fillet, celery, onion in savory
red sauce served with rice		 $19.95
Shipa Shipa
Shrimp, celery, ginger in tomato gravy served
over rice		 $19.95
Janga
Sautéed shrimp and vegetables served over
cous cous or rice		 $19.95
Nyeo
Steamed Tilapia fillet in ginger and garlic
sauce served with fried ripe plantains, sautéed spinach, and coconut rice		 $19.95
Vegetables
Baham
Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots in light
ginger sauce served with cous cous or rice		 $18.95
Nsouki Jakatu
Stir fried eggplant and vegetables served
with cous cous or rice		 $18.95
Kone Ni Makondo
Black-eyed peas in onion and tomato
stew served with coconut rice and fried ripe plantains		 $18.95
Jama Ni Makondo
Sautéed spinach, fried ripe plantains,
and coconut rice		 $18.95
Bikai Ni Curry
Eggplant, mushrooms, bean sprouts in a
curry sauce served with cous cous or rice		 $18.95
Desserts
Makondo Yogurt
Fried plantains with yogurt sauce		 $9.00
Shakari
Cous cous in yogurt sauce served with
pineapples, shredded coco -nut,and raisins		 $9.00
UNCATEGORIZED
Side White Rice $3.00
White Rice $3.00

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Reviews

Stuart Wiston
We’re in New Orleans for a long weekend and wanted something interesting that we can’t get back home. New Orleans is famous for many things but vegetarian food isn’t one of them.

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chris lietz
Really enjoyed this African restaurant in the French Quarter. Had the namesake dish and a second entree with black eyed peas along with a lentil soup starter. Unique flavors and presentation, easy to see a Caribbean connection to West African cuisine. Glad we found this spot. The crew is small so service is not super fast if it’s busy.

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Lance Franklin
As a customer of this restaurant since 2002 Bennachin has been my favorite restaurant and a place I have to visit often. The owner and her family as well as the ambiance of the setting transforms you to Africa when you enter the door. The food is consistently phenomenal, I always suggest the Sisay Singho Singh or the Jamaican Chicken both pictured below. Add in a Hibiscus drink and you are set for the day.

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Tracy GRAHAM
the wait is very long and we were the only one ln the restaurant at the time. Despite that. The food was really, really good

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Michael Brant
Very cute place. The owner / waiter was super friendly. And it was fun to try a cuisine I had never tried before.

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Connie K
Amazingly delicious, well portioned and wallet-friendly gem in the heart of a place where many of the other eateries feel too fried/salty/oily or designed to be tourist traps.

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Nubs
Bland, salty goop and defensive service. They must be drowning in debt to pump out such low quality food. They also wait to seat you at a table before SPOT cleaning the disgusting plastic table cloths, and they clean it with regular Windex-which does NOT disinfect. Literally sat down to have someone else’s meal debris flicked at me.

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Mekkie Bansil
Went here hoping for something vegetarian. I tried to confirm with the waitress 5 times and she ASSURED me that there was no meat in the vegetable soup. Soup comes out, not only is it clearly made of canned vegetables, but after one taste, I realize it’s definitely chicken broth. Don’t go here and put your health at risk

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Chris Jeffery
I was looking for something vegetarian and this definitely hit the spot. This was like a quality meal you would have at your grandmother’s house and everything felt very intimate and personal. The prices are very reasonable. I will definitely be back.

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Martine B.
I had the caramelized plantains with red sauce and the ginger drink.

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