Star Wars John Boyega Treats Harrison Ford To Pounded Yam & Egusi Soup At Popular Nigerian Restaurant In London

British/Nigerian actor John Boyega is the man of the moment! The actor celebrated landing his first blockbuster role in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, by taking veteran actor Harrison Ford to his favourite childhood restaurant – 805, which is a popular Nigerian restaurant in London.


The restaurant is located on Old Kent Road in South London and the dinner went down last year September.

The young actor made the revelation in a video from Bafta’s 2015 Britannia Awards tribute to Harrison Ford, in which Boyega said,

I took him to a Nigerian restaurant in south east London, he walked up into that place like he was Nigerian. He does walk too slow into restaurants. Harrison, you just have to walk in and go straight to the table, that’s the thing.

You don’t have to (at this point, Boyega impersonates the 73-year-old) ‘look around and see who’s here, and do they notice I’m Harrison Ford?’

You don’t always have to take the cheque Harrison. We know you’re rich, we know you’ve got nine planes, but let me pay for it sometimes!”

“Literally, we just had Nigerian food,” he continued.

“People always said ‘when you meet Harrison, he’s casual, he’s laid back’. And he’s all those things, he is, but at the same time, he knows who he is.

He knows that he’s Indiana Jones, he knows that he’s Han Solo, so that’s why when we walked into an environment where people didn’t expect him there he walks in slow motion. So they can take it in.

The manager of the restaurantProsper Djoufak recalled how stunned staff were when they recognised Ford. He narrated,

I didn’t recognise him. But a customer realised and they asked me if it was Harrison Ford. At first I said no. I didn’t believe it was him.  I’ve watched his movies but he’d lost weight so he looked a bit different. When I went back I realised.

I asked him if he was Harrison Ford and he said yes. He was just like a normal person. He was nice, very quiet.

His colleague Thierry Nkowyeb, added,

We’ve had a lot of African footballers come in here but Harrison Ford is such a big star. It was a great honour for us. For him to come in and dine with us – we feel like we are in Hollywood as well.

And what did Harrison Ford eat? Egusi soup and pounded yam, for £15, washed down with a non-alcoholic drink, while Boyega had Jollof rice & plantain.