Crown Bakery in Freetown crops up in all the guide books to Sierra Leone as a hip place to go. Then again, that's not saying much when there are only two - the Bradt book and a general West Africa Rough Guide. Still, one of the words in the name won me over (hint: I'm not much of a royalist) so it went on my list of places to try. Crown is downtown, on Wilberforce. It is a few blocks from the Cotton Tree and a few streets in the other direction from the harbour front. It's not hard to find as there are large, clear signs outside, which also indicate the sort of clientele this place attracts as local places often make do with a hand written or faded paint job, ...  Read the complete review