BL Restaurant Review: A Soft Life Dining Experience in VI
If you’ve been looking for a restaurant where the food is fine, the vibes are finer, and your wallet will shout but still be grateful. Welcome to BL Restaurant, Victoria Island.
Located at 147 Younis Bashorun Street, VI, BL Restaurant is a Lebanese/Nigerian café-bar-restaurant hybrid that promises good food, good cocktails, and good lighting. And the kind of ambiance that makes you forget Lagos stress for at least two hours.
Ambience
BL Restaurant has that clean, warm, well-behaved lighting that automatically upgrades your pictures by two tax brackets. The décor is classy without being intimidating, think modern, cozy, international restaurant energy.
If you’re coming for date night, business hangouts, soft lunch, solo dinner, or “I deserve nice things” moments, the setting fits easily.
Menu & Food Review
BL Restaurant is the kind of place where the menu looks like a small encyclopedia, from salads to pizza to pasta to grills to cocktails to shisha. If you like options, you will be very happy here.
Here are the highlights:
Salads
If you’re entering “healthy era,” their Caesar Salad, BL Special Salad, and Seafood Salad are great choices. Fresh, flavourful, and generously served. Calories? Respectful.
Pasta
This is where BL truly shines.
Try:
- Shrimps Pasta – creamy, rich, and absolutely worth it.
- Marinara (Seafood Pasta) – for the seafood lovers.
- Four Cheese Pasta – comfort food for when Lagos is stressing you.
Their pasta portions are very “soft life” not too small, not too large, just right.
Appetizers
The BL Tenders, Mozzarella Sticks, Stuffed Chicken Balls, and Calamari are crowd favourites. Everything is crunchy, saucy, and enjoyable.
BBQ & Grills
Their Lebanese grills are popular for a reason.
The Kafta, Shish Taouk, and Mix Grill are flavourful, well-spiced, and filling.
If you want to spoil yourself, the Tomahawk Steak is the big boy of the menu.
Seafood
The Seafood Plancha and Salmon Teriyaki are stars.
If you came here specifically for seafood, you won’t be disappointed.
Pizza
BL runs the “Buy One Get One Free Pizza Mondays” promo (5pm), which is the real MVP here. Their Capricciosa, Pepperoni, and Shrimp Suya pizza are strong choices.
Cocktails & Drinks
With the kind of drink menu they have, you can’t run out of options.
Your safest bets:
- Long Island
- Mai Tai
- Signature Strawberry Temptation
- Green Wonders
If you like something soft, they have flavoured lemonades and mocktail mixes too.
Price Range
Let’s be honest: BL is not a cheap restaurant.
It’s not the kind of place you casually walk into after checking account balance.
Average spend per person:
₦20,000 – ₦35,000 (food + drink)
More if you’re exploring cocktails, steak, or seafood.
But for the quality and vibe, it matches the price.
Here are similar spots you’ve written about in our chats:
- The Upside Down House
- Arrows Den
- Vintage Africana
Final Verdict
BL Restaurant is one of those places that reminds you Lagos can still be enjoyable. The food is good, the service is solid, the ambiance is clean, and the menu is wide enough to satisfy any craving.
Yes, it’s pricey.
Yes, the menu is long enough to make you rethink your life choices.
But overall, it’s a reliable spot for quality eating and premium soft life.
Don’t say we didn’t plug you.
