Tag: Brunch
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Sunday brunch at the new Radisson Blu
Every month, it seems, another Sunday brunch event pops up somewhere in the city. One of the latest additions is the Sunday Fire Lake Brunch at the new Radisson Blu Hotel and Residence by the Nairobi Arboretum. My wife and I tried it out last weekend, and we were impressed. Fire Lake is a great […]
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An Indulgent Weekend at Hemingways
Swollen clouds hung menacingly over the Ngong Hills, and as the rain fell I was glad to be indoors. But given the luxury of my surroundings, I had no desire to be outside anyway. I was sitting on the terrace of the Karen Blixen Suite of Hemingways Nairobi, looking out towards the drenched garden through […]
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Sunday Brunch and Jazz at Hemingways Nairobi
LIMITLESS PROSECCO. The two capitalised words on every brochure for the Sunday Gastronomic Brunch and Jazz at Hemingways Nairobi. Wise marketing, and the clincher for many, I’m sure. It certainly was for my fiancée. We decided to spend the afternoon at Hemingways a couple of Sundays ago. It was the ideal day for it: the […]
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Sunday Brunch at Nairobi’s Radisson Blu
If you’re reading this in Nairobi, and you haven’t made any plans for the day, I’ve got a suggestion for you. Every Sunday between 12.30 and 4 pm, the Radisson Blu Hotel hosts an extravagant brunch at the Larder Restaurant and Terrace. I say extravagant because of the sheer variety of food on offer; whatever […]
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A Little Place That Serves Big
It’s not an easy place to find. But the effort is worth it. There’s no elegance in the setting. But the warmth of the welcome and the quality of the food makes that of small matter. Nicole calls her café the Nook. It’s a backyard really. Well, it’s about half the length of a cricket […]
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Sunday Brunch at Marula Mercantile
It was early Sunday morning and I had no place to go. I opened the laptop and brought up KenyaBuzz. It didn’t fail me. I looked up Today on the KenyaBuzz website. I saw that at 10.00 am I was invited to meet up at Nomads for a big collective beach clean-up on Diani Beach. […]
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Sampling Sunday Brunch at the Norfolk
I got an invitation to sample the new brunch menu at the Terrace of the Norfolk. I hesitated at first because, as some of you might remember, I wasn’t very complimentary when I wrote about the way Fairmont Hotels changed the place after they took over the management back in 2005. As Stephen Mills says […]