"Lagos's most ambitious Pan-Asian room: a teppanyaki counter that performs, dim sum and sushi worth the trip, and a Sunday brunch the city plans its weekend around."
Shiro opened on Victoria Island in 2017 and quickly became the address Lagos sends visitors to for Pan-Asian food. It is owned by Dhiren Pawar and sits inside the Landmark Centre on Water Corporation Road, in the Oniru stretch of Victoria Island, with a large dining room, a teppanyaki counter and an ocean-facing terrace.
The menu travels across Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese cooking rather than committing to one. For the wider field see the Lagos dining guide.
The kitchen runs a sushi and sashimi section, a dim sum trolley and a live teppanyaki counter where chefs cook in front of guests. Wagyu beef anchors the premium end of the menu, and the much-photographed fluffy soufflé pancakes have become a Shiro signature. The cooking is built for sharing across a long table rather than a single plated tasting.
See more of the city's fine-dining tables in the Lagos guide.
The dining room is large and theatrical, with the teppanyaki counter as its centrepiece and a terrace that looks toward the water. It seats couples at the bar as readily as a group of twelve at a long table, and the mood is sociable and loud rather than hushed. Weekend evenings and the Sunday brunch fill quickly, so book ahead.
Take a seat at the teppanyaki counter for the live cooking, order across the dim sum and sushi sections to share, and finish with the soufflé pancakes. The Yumcha weekday deal runs unlimited sushi and dim sum for about 40,000 naira, while the full Sunday brunch is around 75,000 naira with alcohol. For other options, see the fine-dining picks across Lagos.
Shiro suits a team dinner or a birthday: a lively Pan-Asian room with a teppanyaki counter to gather around and a Sunday brunch built for a group. See more team-dinner tables and the Lagos dining guide.
Not for a quiet, intimate dinner or a budget evening: Shiro is a large, busy room with live teppanyaki and weekend music, and the bill at the premium end with wagyu and the full brunch climbs quickly.
Shiro Lagos is owned by Dhiren Pawar and has operated on Victoria Island since 2017. It is a Pan-Asian restaurant rather than a single-cuisine room, drawing on Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese cooking. The kitchen runs a sushi section, a dim sum trolley and a live teppanyaki counter where chefs cook in front of guests, and the soufflé pancakes are a house signature.
Shiro is inside the Landmark Centre on Water Corporation Road, in the Oniru part of Victoria Island, Lagos. The setting includes a large dining room, a teppanyaki counter and a terrace facing the water. It is one of the better-known restaurants in the Landmark complex, and weekend evenings and the Sunday brunch fill quickly, so it is worth booking a table ahead.
Sit at the teppanyaki counter for the live cooking, order across the dim sum and sushi sections to share, and finish with the fluffy soufflé pancakes. Wagyu beef sits at the premium end of the menu. The Yumcha weekday deal runs unlimited sushi and dim sum for about 40,000 naira, and the full Sunday brunch is around 75,000 naira with alcohol.
Shiro sits at the upper end of Lagos dining without being a hushed tasting-menu room. The cooking is ambitious and the wagyu and sushi push prices high, but the format is sharing plates, a live teppanyaki counter and a busy weekend brunch rather than a silent plated degustation. It suits a team dinner or a celebration more than a quiet, formal evening for two.
Via experienceshiro.com - Victoria Island
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