When Ethiopian eatery Bunna settled itself on Flushing Avenue, long lines followed. Intrigued culinary tourists should be glad to know that it is not Bushwick’s only culinary representation of the continent and, in fact, lately, a number of West African restaurant have sprung up on the other side of Bushwick.

Paradis Des Gouts

Among the most notable of these is Paradis Des Gouts, whose owner, Cheick Cisse, had navigated to the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy after sometime working at a small Harlem restaurant called Ivoire and later running a place called New Ivoire (Cisse hails from Côte d’Ivoire). Moving southward, she took over the space of another small Ivorian eatery called Abidjan, affixed the more creative shingle—which translates to “Paradise of Taste” and imported also an air that feels loud, brash and uptown.