Dining
BY KEVIN VU
Ope Amosu opened ChopnBlok’s Montrose location in October 2024.
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ChopnBlok o ers shareable dishes from the Golden Bowl, Buka bowl and meat minnie pies.
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ChopnBlok brings in West African cuisine
ChopnBlok features numerous artifacts to help showcase West African culture.
In the heart of Montrose is a restaurant aiming to be an outlet for West African cuisine and culture—ChopnBlok. Meet the owner Chef and owner Ope Amosu moved from London to Nigeria at two years old before settling down in Houston a year later. Before ChopnBlok, Amosu worked as a market- ing and sales executive in the oil and gas industry. But as he grew older and continued his career, he realized he was growing further away from his roots and his parents’ home back in Africa, making it increasingly di cult to access his culture, from language to music and food. So, he decided to create that culture himself.
What they o er Amosu recommends that rst-time customers at ChopnBlock try these dishes: Polo Club Suya: Grilled beef skewers dusted in traditional yaji peanut pepper spice Golden Bowl: A bowl of smoky jollof jambalaya with motherland curry, Blok chicken, yaji vegeta- bles and stewed plantains Buka Bowl: Steamed rice and beans, boneless short rib in native West African red stew and sweet plantains “I wanted the food that we serve here to be a true representation, not just of one single country in West Africa, but a region as a whole, celebrating who we are as kingdoms instead of colonies.”
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