Neukölln

Amara Okonkwo

West African fire cookery in a Neukölln backyard.

Amara left a fine-dining kitchen in Lagos to run a supper club out of a converted garage. Every dinner starts with a fire she builds herself and ends long after the plates are cleared. Her cooking is rooted in the Igbo kitchen — palm oil, smoked fish, bitter leaf — but the room is unmistakably Berlin: concrete walls, one long table, natural wine.