WHAT WE'RE ABOUT
The difference between being healthy
& being well.
OUR FOUNDER
The Stop
Pitstop begins with its founder, Aminadab Allen Adegboro. She was a commercial lawyer in Lagos when she received a diagnosis that medicine could not cure; the only way to manage it was to change how she lived, day to day.
She took up cycling, and it worked. Her test results improved, and so did something the results don’t measure: how good an ordinary day feels. That difference, between being healthy and being well, is the idea behind everything Pitstop does.
One Instinct
Before opening anything, she trained: cooking at the Ashburton Chef Academy in the UK, coffee with the Specialty Coffee Association in South Africa, then Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Her plan was bigger than one restaurant. She wanted places where eating well and staying active go together, and she wanted them run properly.
Pitstop Lagos
Her first venue is Pitstop Lagos, on Victoria Island: Nigeria’s first restaurant themed around fitness and wellness. It is a casual café and restaurant with a health-minded menu, a bike and accessory store in the same building, and a cycling community that gathers outside on weekend mornings. It is still open today and still serves the same crowd.
Pitstop Village
Pitstop Village followed, in Ikoyi, on the waterfront with the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge behind it. Five businesses and a pool share the address: Phoenix, a fine-dining restaurant; the Phoenix Rooftop Lounge above it; the Café & Roastery; ÌLERA, a gym open around the clock; and the Retail Outlet, which sells cycling and sports gear. She calls the Village a celebration of Lagos energy.
HEALTHIER. HAPPIER. STRONGER.
Together
The community is the part she talks about most. It began during the 2020 lockdown as a small cycling group and now rides across Lagos every Saturday and Sunday, with runners and walkers welcome too. From it grew the Pitstop Foundation, which also runs the Pitstop Academy, a training programme for children, and is setting up an Education Trust Fund to help athletes’ families with school fees and rent. She has said she builds people alongside building business, and the tagline means exactly that: Healthier. Happier. Stronger. Together.
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