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Lagos TSQ_ 727 Seventh Ave.

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Some skepticism is warranted whenever a restaurant has a Times Square address. “You know, I suggested we come here kind of as a joke,” the writer and recipe developer Yewande Komolafe told me recently, spooning out pepper soup at Lagos TSQ , a three-story Nigerian restaurantcum-night club in midtown with an overwhelming energy. A steady flow of tourists and influencer types struck practiced poses before a wall of faux greenery. “But this food is good! It’s good good.”