OUR FOUNDER
The Stop
Pitstop begins with its founder, Aminadab Allen Adegboro. She was a commercial lawyer in Abuja 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.
One Instinct
Before opening anything, Aminadab 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.
WHERE IT ALL STARTED
Pitstop Lagos
She moved to Lagos and opened her first venue, 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 and a bike and accessory store in the same building, and the Pitstop Community gathers outside on weekend mornings.
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.
Together.
The community is the part she talks about most. It began during the 2020 lockdown as a small cycling group and now meets every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday to ride, run or walk across Lagos. 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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