Alispice Take Away Food Shops

Alispice was a takeaway at the Longbridge Road premises now trading as Tasty African Food, occupying the same site in the residential stretch between Barking town centre and Upney. The Alispice name suggested a spiced, mixed-cuisine offer — the kind of broad fast-food and curry hybrid that was common in east London takeaways of that period. The address has since become associated with West African cooking, reflecting the demographic shift in the surrounding community as Barking's Nigerian and Ghanaian population grew significantly through the 2000s and 2010s.