About Us

Sijuola Folarin is the owner and head chef at popular windsor restaurant Naija Food Eats. She is also a professional cake designer and artist, merging the African cake style of buttercream poundcake with modern American flavours and designs. Sijuola has been featured on CIBC news, Biz X and has been nominated for several local business awards for her catering and restaurant work. She had started cooking at five years old as working with food has always been her passion. Even through studying social work and working in the profession, Sijuola still pursued her dreams of working as a caterer at any available moment possible. She believes that being served food should be an engaging moment, not marred by lack of cleanliness or lack of food detail. In recent years, through professional training and focus through the recent pandemic, she was able to expand her local catering business to open one of the few Nigerian restaurants in Windsor, Ontario. She is now a full-time chef running the Naija Food Eats restaurant and spreading the flavour of Nigerian cultural food to Ontario and beyond.

My name is Nathaniel Nettey .I am 40 years old Ghanaian born in Jamestown, Ghana, but I currently reside and run my own catering business in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Am the C.E.O and founder of Exalted by Netteson Catering that focus to serve West African Cuisine and African Cuisine in general, my goal is to introduce African Cuisine to the world.

My Purpose and Passion
I have always lived by the renowned Mahatma Gandhi’s mantra “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. My purpose in life has always been to contribute to people’s happiness in my own, creativity, versatile, diverse and unique way- cooking delicious African meals.
That why as a chef, I love watching people interact, from friendship, and share ideas while enjoying what I have cooked.
Here is a short story how my journey began .Born in a family with many siblings ,and duties were shared among us and we must make sure to do it to the best of our ability .Coming from a family of chef and cooks ,my mother did own and omelet restaurant, my grandmother did own her restaurant ,my dad mother did had her own , and my grandfather was the Head chef at Lagon university ,and actually till now part of my family still has on going family catering till this day in Ghana ,Accra.
You can tell how cooking was something I was surrounded with , and I was always exited to get involved in assistance ,or to cook, so from that moment the passion even got deeper. I gain lot of experience through family catering and restaurants, but I wanted more to pursue my cooking passion.
I read books , watching cooking shows, volunteering ,and so on ,was always my prayer by God grace to see my dream come true.
As I transition to Canada, was helping my mom did some catering business ,and as I attended sault collage in Canada , I did computer technician, but during those time I use to cook for the student and friends , and they use to tell me ,you should start your own, because your food is delicious and your passion about it was very deep, after I was done with my computer program and attended St clair Collage where I took Culinary Art course ,and in that city that how My catering Business was born .

After I finished collage and I got job with local restaurant while ,I was running my catering business and I end up also getting a job with one the biggest company in Canada , Windsor Casino ,also Banquet halls, African restaurant , work Oil Company rigs, work on Movies set ,and many more ,

Although the journey has not been easy. I thank God for how far he has brought me .i must say I was blessed to work with very good franchise and companies, and I hope to continue expanding and making people happy by cooking them delicious African meals, through my cooking passion.

My expertise in African cuisine distinguish me from my competitors ,in all that I have created my own African spices and drinks and sauces as well. My goal is to blend African cuisine to show case to the world and come up with a masterpiece that will be appreciated all over the globe. THANK YOU JESUS FOR THIS GIFT.

Nada Sabri Ben Ayad is owner and head chef of Windsor’s renowned Nidaa’s Fine Foods. Nada is originally from Tripoli, Libya. She graduated from Oxford University with a double major in Landscaping Design and International Journalism in 1980, and has held numerous positions such as a JANA correspondent, member of the Islamabad Foreign Women Association, held the position of head chairman of the Libyan Woman Union, advisor of the Libyan Girl’s Scouts, and has been a political and media activist to date.

Her love of community has been ever present throughout her life.

She became a Canadian citizen in 2002, holding positions such as an Arabic teacher position at An-noor private Islamic School, and coordinator of the Islamic community activities at the Dominion Mosque Windsor, Ontario.

And most recently founding the Nidaa’s Fine Foods catering business Food Specialists in North Africa and Middle East from 2017 till present. Nada is also an avid event and festival organizer for the Windsor-Essex and Greater Toronto Area community.

She is the recipient of various awards such as the “Best Arab Journalist Award” – Pakistan, Islamabad (1997), the “Women Leadership Award” – Bahrain (2013) and the “Dubai Women’s Leadership Award” – Dubai (2014).

My name is Aletha Nelson, I’m 14 years old, and I’ve been cooking for a couple of years now. I am extremely passionate about cooking. Cooking for people is one of my ultimate favorite things to do. I am grateful for every opportunity I get to cook, for even just one person, to groups of people. I want to be a Red seal chef when I’m older, so this is going to be another step closer to my dream.

My name is Oluwabunmi Temilade Owolabi. I am 33 years old, I was born and bred in Lagos, Nigeria and I am based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I am a Caterer and Personal Support Worker with an organization here in Windsor, ON.
I love cooking because I derive pleasure in seeing what I prepared being enjoyed by people. I am in LOVE with cooking. I cook and prepare different Nigerian foods. Presently, I do prepare food for churches most Sundays and I also prepare food for individuals and for parties. I can make EVERY Nigerian dish under the sun. I look forward to operating/owning a restaurant someday.

I am a mum to 3 wonderful boys and a wife. I was born and raised in Nigeria and migrated to Canada with my family in 2017. I have always had a passion to serve in the hospitality industry most especially in the Food & Beverage sector. I owned my establishment (Ratal Catering Services) in Nigeria where I trained students and catered for events for over 15 years. I hope to make a positive impact in the Food & Beverage Industry. After studying how the system works in Canada, I decided to take my career to the next level by enrolling in the Culinary Management program at St Clair College and graduated in April 2022. I’m currently enrolled in the Hospitality, Hotel & Restaurant program at St Clair College and hope to be done in April 2024. My hobbies are traveling, dancing, listening to music, and cooking.

Mesdames Ida Bukuru-Kadende et Daphrose Kanyange soucieuses de promouvoir nos identités et nos valeurs francophones et d’intégration au canada , avons débuté par la promotion de la cuisine burundaise. Cette activité a commencé depuis 2019 en collaboration avec NCCEEP(Nigerian Canadian for Cultural Educational and Economical Progress & BCCEEP(Black Canadian for Cultural, Éducation and Economical Progress).

En effet, depuis la venue de la pandémie , nous étions très préoccupées par les personnes âgées et les nouveaux arrivants (immigrants), qui avaient beaucoup de difficultés à cuisiner ou à retrouver la nourriture de leurs pays d’origine.

C’est ainsi que nous nous sommes mises ensembles pour promouvoir notre art culinaire.
Nous avons ainsi cuisiné dans les locaux de BCCEEP & NCCEEP mais, les commandes étaient très limitées car les personnes ne pouvaient pas sortir aisément pour venir acheter de la nourriture .

Ainsi, nous avons décidé de continuer à rendre le service par commande à défaut de pénaliser nos clients potentiels .

Nous tenons à souligner que notre initiative nous a permis d’interagir davantage avec d’autres communautés, surtout de comprendre les difficultés auxquelles les nouveaux arrivants et les personnes âgées se heurtaient en général, en particulier pendant la période de la pandémie .

Ainsi, cette situation nous a permis d’avoir des commandes des différentes communautés et associations, quand elles organisaient des festivités.

Nous recevons des feedbacks positifs ainsi, cela nous permet de découvrir que nous progressons. Nous comptons reouvrir prochainement .