Small pepper.
Big flavor.

There's chicken. And then there's PERi-PERi Chicken. Step inside a Nando's restaurant for flame-grilled, never frozen chicken, marinated for 24 hours in the legendary PERi-PERi we've been perfecting since 1987.

Welcome to Nando’s

We’re not just hot. We’re spicy.

Pick your heat.

We’ll handle the rest.

Part pepper, part sauce, total obsession. PERi-PERi is the African Bird's Eye Chili that Portuguese explorers discovered in Mozambique and accidentally made legendary around the world. One taste and you'll understand why it's been crossing continents for centuries.

Born in Johannesburg. Raised around the globe.

1987

1987. Two friends. One bite of PERi-PERi chicken in a humble Johannesburg restaurant. By the end of the meal, they knew they needed to share the flavor with the world. Everything else is history.

Nando's "Chickenland" vintage-style storefront exterior with a red roof

Today

We're in 30 countries now, and the things that matter still hit home. The chicken is still fresh, still flame-grilled, still full of fiery flavor. And there's a lot more to us than what's on the plate.

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Come for the chicken.

Stay for the art.

Every Nando's is a gallery (without the white gloves and hushed voices). With over 25,000 original pieces lining our walls, we're officially the world's largest collector of South African contemporary art. Because great food and great art have always belonged in the same room.

Feast your eyes