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Teetasty Foods is a Nigerian restaurant and bar in a strip-mall storefront on Southwest Trafficway at 37th Street, opened in December 2023 by Oluwatobi Temitope “Chef Tee” Oni, a Lagos-born former tax-revenue supervisor and fraud analyst who built a Kansas City catering business from her home kitchen before going brick-and-mortar. The menu is the Nigerian canon — party jollof, egusi and efo riro with pounded yam, suya, pepper soup, ayamase (ofada) sauce, puff puff — with a few concessions (hand pies, fries, shawarma wraps) and a full bar stocked with Nigerian lagers and malt drinks.

Description

Teetasty occupies a small strip-mall space at 3711 Southwest Trafficway, on the west edge of Midtown just south of 37th Street; reviewers describe a small café room with live music some nights and limited lot parking.12 The restaurant’s own framing is that “food is not just about nourishment but also storytelling and connection,” and that it delivers “home cooked meals … made with fresh and the finest of ingredients to give you that authentic African taste.”3

The menu is unusually complete for Nigerian food in the metro.4 Starters are meat pies, beef samosas, spring rolls and puff puff (including a “Sweet Tooth” version with crushed Oreos); small plates run to suya-spiced wings, gizdodo (gizzards and plantain), beef suya and a $24.99 goat pepper soup. The “Traditional Soups” section — egusi, efo riro, okro, peanut-butter soup, bitter-leaf — is priced by protein (chicken, beef, fish, goat, assorted meat) and served with pounded yam, eba, a whole-wheat swallow or rice. Signature entrées include Nigerian party jollof, a “Taste of Naija” plate, basmati fried rice, suya lamb chops and white rice with the house ayamase (ofada) sauce of green peppers, beef, cow skin and tripe. Whole tilapia and red snapper come fried or flame-grilled with jollof and plantain. Weekends add abula, seafood okra and egusi, and a $64.99 “Tee’s Street Platter” for two to four. There is a vegan egusi and a vegan jollof plate, and an “Afro Fusion” jollof spaghetti.4

The bar list is short and pointed: Nigerian and Ghanaian-market lagers (Origin, Trophy), Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, Maltina and Vita Malt, a house-made zobo (hibiscus, ginger, clove, pineapple), a few standard cocktails and a bottle list.5 Chef Tee has said the menu’s hand pies and fries are the compromises she made “to bring Nigerian food to the midwestern masses,” while holding “a hard line on the traditional Nigerian dishes,” down to crayfish and melon seed she sources from Nigeria.6

Ownership and history

Oluwatobi Temitope Oni — Chef Tee — worked as a revenue supervisor for the Lagos Internal Revenue Service before immigrating to the United States roughly seven years before 2025, moving for marriage and family.6 She kept a professional career in anti-money-laundering and fraud analysis while cooking on the side; friends-and-family cooking became a catering business, weddings and parties, until customers kept asking for smaller portions and she decided to consolidate her operations under one roof.6 She told The Pitch she has been in the food industry twelve to thirteen years, beginning with catering in Nigeria, and that the name comes from her nickname — people would say “T, that’s tasty!”67 Her earliest cooking memories are of a grandmother and mother who balanced traditional and modernized cooking; she is a mother of two.6

KC Daily reported the restaurant open on December 5, 2023 — “opened last Friday,” which places the opening on December 1, 2023 — describing a West African menu of jollof, samosas, shawarma and the soups egusi, ogbono and efo riro, and identifying the owner as “Oluwatobi Temitope Adeleke” (the Pitch, fourteen months later, uses “Oni”; the discrepancy is unresolved).76 The Pitch’s February 2025 “Mise en Place” profile records that her auditing background runs the back office — HR, bookkeeping, taxes, financial tracking — and that her industry cause is food-waste reduction and repurposing surplus food for the community.6 The catering arm continues alongside the restaurant, with a tray-priced menu on the site.8

Last verified: 2026-08-29 · Source: the restaurant’s own food and drink menu pages on teetastyfoods.com (SpotHopper-built site) · Confidence: High. Abridged; the full menu with descriptions and the catering tray list are on the official pages.458

Starters

  • Meat Pie $4 · Beef Samosas (2) $5.75 · Vegetable Spring Rolls (2) $5 · Puff Puff (5) $5 · Sweet Tooth Puff Puff (6, crushed Oreos, sweet cream) $8 · Beef Patties $5.10

Wings & small plates

  • Suya-Spiced Wings $10.99 · Tee’s Peppered Wings $10.99 · Dry Rub Wings $10.99 · Mini Platter (samosas, spring rolls, suya wings, coconut butterfly shrimp) $17.99 · Gizdodo $15.99 · Goat Pepper Soup $24.99 · Beef Suya (contains peanuts) $20.99

Traditional soups — with pounded yam, eba, whole-wheat swallow or rice

  • Egusi · Efo Riro · Okro · Peanut Butter Soup — chicken $19.99; beef or fish $24.99; goat or assorted meat $27.99
  • Bitter Leaf Soup (goat) $32.99

Signature entrées

  • Nigerian Party Jollof Rice $17.99–25.99 by protein · Taste of Naija (jollof, suya or Tee’s wings, plantain) $21.99 · Basmati Fried Rice $17.99–18.99 · White Rice with Ayamase (Ofada) Sauce $25.99 · Beef Suya Meal $26.99 · Suya Lamb Chops (3) $23.99
  • Afro Fusion: Jollof Spaghetti (char-grilled chicken thigh) $21.99 · Jollof Spaghetti Scampi $23.99

Wraps & street food · Seafood

  • Chicken Shawarma Wrap $12 · Beef Shawarma Wrap $14 · Suya Shawarma $16 · Chicken & Fries $17.99
  • Whole Tilapia Meal $29.99 · Grilled Whole Tilapia $36.99 · Whole Fried Red Snapper $35 · Grilled Whole Red Snapper $39.99 · Tilapia Pepper Soup $20.99

Weekend features (Fri–Sun) · Vegetarian · Sides · Dessert

  • Abula $27 · Tee’s Street Platter (serves 2–4) $64.99 · Seafood Okra $38.99 · Seafood Egusi $40.99
  • Vegan Egusi with fufu $17.99 · Vegan Jollof Plate $16.99
  • Jollof Rice $8 · Fried Plantain $5 · Yam Fries $9 · White Rice $5 · Coleslaw $5 · Spinach Stir Fry $5 · Boiled Egg $2 · House Hot Sauce $1.50
  • Puff Puff & Vanilla Ice Cream $9

Drinks

  • Zobo (hibiscus, ginger, cloves, pineapple) $6.50 · Maltina / Vita Malt / Amstel Malta $3.50 · Soda $1.50 · Water $1.50
  • Origin Beer $12 · Trophy Lager $12 · Guinness Foreign Extra Stout $10 · Guinness Draught, Modelo, Corona, Heineken $5
  • House Long Island $10 · Tees Long Island $12 · Margarita $10 (premium $12) · Premium Old Fashioned $12 · Piña Colada $10 · Bottles $170–200

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Teetasty Foods — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: name; 3711 Southwest Trafficway, KCMO 64111; phone (816) 216-7192; sales@teetastyfoods.com; hours (Tue 11:30–8, Wed–Thu 11–8, Fri–Sat 2–10, Sun 2–7); Toast ordering link; reservations, parties, catering, events pages; Instagram @teetastyfoods and Facebook links; Nigerian-cuisine positioning. ↩

  2. Restaurantji — “Teetasty Foods — African Restaurant and Bar, Kansas City.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: address and phone; hours incl. Monday closed; 4.4 rating, 169 reviews, reviews dated August 2026; strip-mall café with live music; zobo and Maltina; limited parking. Third-party. ↩

  3. Teetasty Foods — official website, “About.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: “storytelling and connection” and “authentic African taste” statements; first-person owner voice; no name or date given. ↩

  4. Teetasty Foods — official website, “Food Menu.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: every food item and price in the Menu section, including the weekend features, vegetarian menu and sides. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Teetasty Foods — official website, “Drink Menu.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: every drink and price listed. ↩ ↩2

  6. Sarah Sipple, “Mise en Place: Oluwatobi Temitope Oni of Teetasty Foods dishes on auditing, food waste, and crayfish,” The Pitch, 2025-02-18 — Confirms: owner name; Lagos Internal Revenue Service; immigration ~7 years prior; AML/fraud-analysis career; home cooking → catering → restaurant; 12–13 years in food; “T, that’s tasty!”; hand pies and fries as compromises; crayfish and melon seed from Nigeria; mother of two; grandmother and mother; auditing runs the back office; food-waste cause; address 3711 SW Trafficway. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. “If You Build It, They Will Fly,” KC Daily, 2023-12-05 — Confirms: Teetasty “opened last Friday” at 3711 Southwest Trafficway; owner named as Oluwatobi Temitope Adeleke; finance career; nickname origin; jollof, samosas, shawarma, egusi, ogbono, efo riro; closed Tuesdays at opening. ↩ ↩2

  8. Teetasty Foods — official website, “Catering” (tray-priced menu on the food-menu page). Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: continuing catering arm with quarter/half/large tray pricing (e.g., party jollof $35/$50/$100; egusi $85/$150/$300; beef suya $90/$160/$320). ↩ ↩2

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