My review of Mama D's African Cuisine, L.A. chefs in Vegas and more
Last fall, in the thick of the pandemic, Claudia Wanki was searching online for restaurant spaces to lease. She noticed one in a shopping center along South Soto Street in Boyle Heights. It had previously housed Puertos Del Pacifico, which specialized in mariscos. Wanki rented the building and named her new business, in homage to her mother’s restaurant in Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C.
Wanki had worked previously as a substitute teacher and a senior caretaker. She was finishing her M.B.A. degree from Marymount California University as she opened the restaurant in November, cooking many of the same Cameroonian dishes she learned in her mother’s kitchen. She is often a one-woman operation “I don’t mind working long hours,” Wanki told me in a phone interview.Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most.Mama D’s African Cuisine is this week’s review.
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