That's why I was so excited when a bicycle-riding friend called to say he'd passed a new African restaurant—recognizable by the tribal mask on the awning—in an industrial part of East New York, Brooklyn, only a block south of Atlantic Avenue. I was soon there with a couple of pals, including Lenny, who'd just returned from a six-month internship at a newspaper in Lagos. We found ourselves at a place called Festac, named after a Lagos zone famous for a 1977 arts festival. "It's now a wealthy neighborhood," Lenny noted. Read the full article at the original source (Village Voice)…

Added to EveryBlock on May 6, 2008.