Sky Restaurant Eko Hotel Lagos penthouse rooftop Atlantic Ocean view dining

Sky Restaurant

#12 in Lagos Asian Fusion / Seafood Eko Hotel, Victoria Island $$$
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Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson · Visited Q1 2026

Lead Curator, Restaurants for Kings

"Perched atop Eko Hotel at the highest point on Victoria Island, the Sky Restaurant turns Sunday brunch into the city's most theatrical occasion. Sushi, grilled prawns, prawn curry, and the Atlantic Ocean laid out beneath you — Lagos at its most cinematic."

8.4Food
9.0Ambience
8.0Value

About Sky Restaurant

At the penthouse summit of Eko Hotel & Suites — the address on Adetokunbo Ademola Street that has anchored Victoria Island's hospitality for decades — the Sky Restaurant occupies a position that no other Lagos dining room can claim: it is the city's highest, and from its 130-seat dining room, both the Atlantic Ocean and the Lagos mainland sprawl beneath you simultaneously. On a clear evening, the view alone is worth the fare. The food, to its credit, makes a compelling independent argument.

The kitchen operates in the Asian fusion register, applying those sensibilities to the excellent Atlantic and lagoon seafood available to Victoria Island's best-supplied restaurants. The Seafood Kebab — four generous skewers of prawns, fresh fish, and tender calamari alongside charred seasonal vegetables — is the definitive table order, arriving with the kind of visual drama that altitude dining encourages. The signature Prawn Curry, built around locally-sourced crustaceans that arrive with considerably less distance from water than their counterparts in most Asian fusion kitchens, has attracted the kind of repeat-order loyalty that indicates a dish has genuinely earned its place on a menu.

Sushi is prepared with the freshness guarantees that proximity to the Atlantic coast enables. Grilled prawns from the Nigerian coast, prepared with Asian-inflected marinades and served with dipping sauces of some complexity, represent the kitchen's core proposition: this is West African seafood excellence filtered through culinary frameworks that suit it well.

The Sunday brunch experience is Sky Restaurant's most discussed format — an endless-drinks programme, multiple seafood stations, and the city spread beneath you like a map of everything that brought you to Lagos in the first place. The seating capacity of 130 means that even the most popular service times do not feel overwhelmed, though advance reservation remains essential. Top25Restaurants.com ranks Sky Restaurant on its Nigeria list as one of the country's most distinctive dining addresses, a recognition earned specifically by the view-to-food ratio that few restaurants anywhere achieve at this level.

Perfect for: Impressing Clients
There is a simple formula to client dining at Sky Restaurant: take them up, let the view do the first thirty seconds of the conversation, and then allow the food to confirm that the choice was made with genuine knowledge rather than simply with the obvious instinct to choose high. International clients experience Lagos from above for the first time — the scale of the Bight of Benin, the density of the island, the Atlantic extending to the horizon — and the impression is both immediate and lasting. Book a window table and request the sunset-adjacent service time. The deal discussion begins in a room that has already made your city look extraordinary.
Also Perfect for: Birthday Celebrations
The Sunday brunch format was designed, whether intentionally or not, for birthdays. The drinks programme sustains the table through a long, unhurried afternoon. The seafood stations provide the sense of abundance that birthday celebrations demand. The view creates the sense of occasion that prevents the event from feeling like an ordinary restaurant lunch. For the Lagos birthday group that wants to feel genuinely special without the formality of a tasting-menu progression, Sky Restaurant on a Sunday offers a sustained, spectacular, and properly festive afternoon.

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