Bold, lovingly designed restaurant with dining.

DNR Turkish Restaurant is primarily an open-air restaurant, with a play area to keep kids entertained, though there is also an air-conditioned indoor space.

South African café franchise Vida e caffè is steadily expanding its reach in Accra, which makes us very happy indeed.

This café serves light lunches and brunches. Its sandwiches are popular, especially the chicken, cheese, bacon and avocado extravaganza.

A fixture of Accra’s dining scene for over 20 years, this well-known Chinese restaurant has two city locations, as well as one in Tema.

The international ci gusta! franchise specialises in frozen yoghurt, ice cream, smoothies, coffee and pizza. This is a lovely little air-conditioned spot for a cooling break.

La Chaumière’s sophisticated French dishes with North African influences have been catering to Accra’s discerning diners for more than a decade.

This casual and well-designed café serves freshly brewed coffee, cold-pressed fruit juices and tasty homemade cakes and desserts.

Situated on Farrar Avenue, one of the oldest and most charming parts of Accra, the Orangery offers excellent fresh salads and soups, the latter including flavours such as asparagus, pumpkin and mushroom.

This is a hard place to define. It shares premises with the Thai Island and Tam-Tam African Restaurant, but is nonetheless mostly based in its own pleasant garden (which, despite being next to a busy road, is pretty tranquil).

The Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel’s Deli offers freshly made sandwiches, light meals and the signature Mövenpick ice cream in a contemporary coffee-shop atmosphere.

You’ll find a good range of fragrant dishes cooked by a talented Thai chef at this lively little eatery.

Lush plants and a bright yellow facade welcome you to this cute little café run by food-lovers Joseph and Dedo Azu, who returned to Ghana from overseas to start the concept.

Vegan cuisine is growing in popularity in Ghana, and nobody does it better than the pioneering Tatale.

This pleasant complex in Osu encompasses Pinocchio, a colourful café and ice cream parlour; La Piazza, an air-conditioned restaurant and outdoor seating area popular for its excellent pizzas, pasta, salads and chicken dishes; and The Grill, a rooftop terrace restaurant with a focus on steaks and burgers.

Noble House is one of the longest-serving and most popular Chinese restaurants in Accra. It’s affiliated with the equally popular Heritage Indian, and both are known for their good service.

Set around an agreeably rustic courtyard some five minutes’ walk from Oxford Street, Mamma Mia, now well into its second decade, serves up top-quality thin-crust, wood-fired pizzas in an attractive setting, making it easily one of Accra’s best options for Italian food.

This place arguably makes the best salads in Accra.

While Kukum is primarily a workspace offering speedy WiFi and an oasis of calm in which the city’s creatives and entrepreneurs can dream up their next big thing, its café is also a destination in its own right.

Coffee snob and proud of it? Then this place is for you.