Wakame Lagos: Chefs, Menu Prices and Hours
Who cooks at this Asian-fusion restaurant in the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, what a meal costs in naira, when to go and why it has no burger on the menu.
Photo: Swantata, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wakame Lagos is an Asian-fusion restaurant on the first floor of the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, Ikeja GRA. Executive Chef Bishnu Khatri runs the kitchen. In July 2025 a main course cost between ₦21,000 and ₦33,000. If you came here for a burger, the short answer is no: Wakame has never had one on any menu I could find. The Ikeja burger options are at the end of this page.
Wakame Lagos at a glance: key facts
Wakame is a hotel restaurant inside a Marriott International property, the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, and it opened on 10 December 2021. No chef owns it.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Wakame (Asian Kitchen & Lounge) |
| Address | Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos 100271, first floor |
| Opened | Friday, 10 December 2021 |
| Cuisine | Asian fusion: Japanese, Chinese, Thai, North Indian |
| Executive Chef | Bishnu Khatri |
| Also named | Chef Krishna Thapa |
| Opening chef | Chef de Cuisine Saiful Mizan (2021–2022) |
| Hours (Marriott, checked 4 November 2026) | Closed Monday; Tuesday to Sunday 12:00–16:00 and 18:00–22:30 |
| Bookings | +234 707 469 3295, LOSLG.Wakame@marriott.com |
| Dress code | Smart casual |
| Burgers on the menu | None found in any published menu |
Sources: BusinessDay (December 2021), Marriott dining page, More Cravings by Marriott Bonvoy, Legit.ng (July 2025), all checked on 4 November 2026.
Map of Ikeja GRA on the Lagos Mainland: Wakame is on the first floor of the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, Lagos 100271, a short drive from Murtala Muhammed International Airport. (Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
Who is the chef at Wakame Lagos?
Bishnu Khatri is Wakame’s Executive Chef, and Krishna Thapa is also named as a chef there. Neither of them opened the place. That was Saiful Mizan, a Malaysian-born chef who left no public trace of his departure.
Bishnu Khatri, Executive Chef (current)
Bishnu Khatri is presented as Executive Chef on Wakame’s own site, which has a “Meet Chef Bishnu” page. Legit.ng credits him with more than 20 years in kitchens. His name is also on the menu: “Chef Bishnu’s Biryani” cost ₦24,000 to ₦33,000 in July 2025, which is a confident price for a rice dish. The official chef page would not load for me, so I have left out his nationality and earlier posts rather than guess them.
Krishna Thapa (current)
Krishna Thapa is the chef listed for Wakame on More Cravings, Marriott Bonvoy’s dining platform, and Legit.ng named him next to Bishnu Khatri in July 2025. No source I could check gives his title or his start date.
Saiful Mizan, opening Chef de Cuisine (2021–2022)
Saiful Mizan ran the kitchen when Wakame opened in December 2021. BusinessDay described a career that touched five countries. He was born in Malaysia, grew up in Perak and had 16 years of experience, in the Maldives, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Iraq. His signature dish was a wok-style chilli crab, and his chef’s special was buttered prawns. BusinessDay profiled him again in July 2022. After that, nothing: no source dates his departure.
What kind of food does Wakame serve?
Wakame serves Asian-fusion sharing plates: Japanese, Chinese, Thai and North Indian dishes built on street-food ideas. Marriott’s own line is “bold Asian-fusion street food, shareable plates, and inventive cocktails”, served indoors and out.
The robata grill, tandoor, wok and duck oven
The semi-open kitchen has four stations, according to BusinessDay at the opening: a Japanese robata grill, a tandoor, a wok station and a crispy duck oven. Read the menu with that in mind and it makes sense. Robata skewers and lamb rack come off the grill, the wings come out of the tandoor and the noodles come off the wok. At the opening the room had 109 seats inside and 35 on the terrace. Those are 2021 numbers.
Tandoori chicken cooked in a charcoal-heated clay tandoor, one of the four stations in Wakame’s semi-open kitchen alongside the robata grill, wok and duck oven (illustrative photo taken in India, not at Wakame). 3264×2448. (Photo: Nitinmaul, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tandoori\_Chicken\_with\_oven.jpg)
Dishes the Lagos press keeps naming
Tandoori chicken wings are the most consistent dish, listed in both 2023 and 2025. The press also names ginger beef noodles, robata lamb rack, tiger prawns, chicken yaki udon, butter chicken, salmon teriyaki, sushi and maki rolls. Eat Drink Lagos wrote up a chef’s table there in January 2022.
Wakame Lagos menu prices in naira
In July 2025 a main course at Wakame cost ₦21,000 to ₦33,000, and a portion of sushi cost ₦16,000 to ₦19,500, according to Legit.ng. Naira prices move fast. Ask for current prices when you book.
| Dish | Price (July 2025) |
|---|---|
| Tandoori chicken wings | ₦17,500 |
| Butter chicken | ₦21,000 |
| Chicken yaki udon | ₦26,500 |
| Salmon teriyaki | ₦33,000 |
| Chef Bishnu’s biryani | ₦24,000–₦33,000 |
| Sushi | ₦16,000–₦19,500 |
| Maki rolls | ₦9,000–₦37,500 |
Source: Legit.ng, “Inside Wakame Restaurant, Lagos: What’s on the menu?”, 16 July 2025.
Yaki udon, stir-fried Japanese udon noodles in a soy-based sauce: Wakame’s wok-station chicken yaki udon cost ₦26,500 in July 2025 (illustrative photo, not taken at Wakame). 1976×1482. (Photo: Blue Lotus, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yaki-udon.jpg)
How Wakame prices have moved since 2022
Older reviews show the budget climbing. Eat Drink Lagos put a visit at ₦40,000 to ₦70,000 in 2022. Exquisite Magazine listed these ranges in July 2023:
| Category (July 2023) | Price range |
|---|---|
| Wakame specials (tandoori wings, ginger beef noodles, robata lamb rack, tiger prawns) | ₦12,000–₦70,000 |
| Robata skewers | ₦7,500–₦18,000 |
| Cocktails | ₦8,000–₦10,000 |
| Mocktails | ₦4,500–₦5,000 |
Each source groups the menu its own way, so a clean dish-by-dish comparison is impossible. One data point stands out all the same: the tandoori wings alone cost ₦17,500 in 2025, well above the ₦12,000 floor of the 2023 specials.
Wakame Lagos prices in naira, 2022–2025: estimated spend per visit ₦40,000–70,000 (Eat Drink Lagos, 2022), specials ₦12,000–70,000 and robata skewers ₦7,500–18,000 (Exquisite Magazine, July 2023), mains ₦21,000–33,000 and sushi ₦16,000–19,500 (Legit.ng, July 2025). Sources group dishes differently. (Chart: Burger Breton (original), CC BY 4.0; data: Eat Drink Lagos (2022), Exquisite Magazine (Jul 2023), Legit.ng (16 Jul 2025))
Wakame Lagos opening hours and how to book
Wakame is closed on Monday and open Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to 16:00 for lunch and 18:00 to 22:30 for dinner, according to the Marriott dining page checked on 4 November 2026. Legit.ng gave Wednesday to Sunday in July 2025, so if Tuesday is your only free evening, call first.
Book on +234 707 469 3295 or at LOSLG.Wakame@marriott.com. Eat Drink Lagos said in 2022 that booking was required. The dress code is smart casual.
Wakame vs the Wakame Lounge
The Wakame Lounge is the bar side of the same venue, with cocktails and DJ sets, and Marriott says its hours vary by day. Book the restaurant for dinner. Go to the lounge for a drink.
Is Wakame worth it? Its place on the Lagos Mainland
On reputation, Wakame is one of the Mainland’s better-known hotel restaurants. Eat Drink Lagos called it “one of the most widely spoken-about hotel restaurants in Lagos right now” in 2022. On 4 November 2026, Wanderlog showed a Google rating of 4.4 out of 5 from 276 reviews. That figure is a third-party snapshot, not our score. I have not eaten there, so this page gives no rating.
My take, from the numbers alone: at ₦21,000 and up for a main, Wakame is a special-occasion dinner, not a casual one. Its real advantage is geography. Ikeja GRA sits on the Mainland near the airport, while most of the city’s upscale dining is on Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Lekki. If you are staying in Ikeja or flying out the next morning, a meal here spares you the bridges and the traffic, and I would weigh that above the menu.
Does Wakame Lagos serve burgers?
No. None of the menus or reviews I checked lists a burger at Wakame: Legit.ng (2025), Exquisite Magazine (2023), Eat Drink Lagos (2022) and the Marriott pages. Wakame was not among the nine restaurants in Lagos Burger Week 2021 either.
Best burgers in Ikeja: where to go instead
For a burger in Ikeja, the Lagos press points to Burg, Chipamax Burger House and GreenBuns, a vegan burger spot. Eat Drink Lagos has reviewed Burg’s Ikeja branch, and ThisDay Style lists the other two in its Lagos burger roundup. I have not confirmed their current branches, so check the address before you set off.
For a chain option, my guide to Chicken Republic in Lagos, with its menu, prices and branches covers Nigeria’s biggest home-grown fast-food chain and its chicken burgers. For more places across the city, see the best burgers in Lagos city guide, or browse every city on the Burger Breton restaurants hub.
How I put this guide together
This profile draws on Marriott’s own pages, the restaurant’s official site and the Lagos food press: BusinessDay, Eat Drink Lagos, Exquisite Magazine and Legit.ng. I checked every fact on 4 November 2026, and every price carries its date. Where the sources disagree, as they do on opening days, I give Marriott’s version and flag the conflict. One correction for transparency: this page started as a profile of a chef-owner linked to Wakame. I found no source tying that person to Wakame or to any Lagos restaurant, so I rebuilt it around the chefs that Marriott, the restaurant and the Lagos press actually name.
Wakame Lagos FAQ
Who is the chef at Wakame Lagos? Bishnu Khatri is Wakame’s Executive Chef, and Krishna Thapa is also named as a chef there. Saiful Mizan, from Malaysia, led the kitchen at the opening in December 2021.
Where is Wakame in Lagos? Wakame is on the first floor of the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos 100271, on the Mainland near the airport.
How much does a meal at Wakame cost? In July 2025, mains cost ₦21,000 to ₦33,000, sushi ₦16,000 to ₦19,500 and maki rolls ₦9,000 to ₦37,500 (Legit.ng). Check current prices when you book.
Is Wakame open on Mondays? No. Marriott lists Wakame as closed on Monday and open Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00–16:00 and 18:00–22:30 (checked 4 November 2026).
Do I need a reservation at Wakame, and what should I wear? Yes, book ahead: Eat Drink Lagos reported in 2022 that booking was required. Call +234 707 469 3295 or email LOSLG.Wakame@marriott.com. The dress code is smart casual.
Does Wakame Lagos serve burgers? No. No published Wakame menu lists a burger. For burgers in Ikeja, the Lagos press names Burg, Chipamax Burger House and GreenBuns.
What is the difference between Wakame and the Wakame Lounge? Wakame is the restaurant. The Wakame Lounge, in the same hotel, is the cocktail bar with DJ sets, and its hours vary by day.
Who owns Wakame? Wakame operates inside the Lagos Marriott Hotel Ikeja, a Marriott International hotel. No chef owns it or founded it.
