Tag: International Cuisine
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Clean Eating at Boho
‘This is one of the best rhubarb crumbles I’ve ever had!’. That was high praise from my wife, Gabie, who is crazy for crumbles. We were at the Boho Eatery, along Ndovu Road in Karen, enjoying a late lunch on a Sunday afternoon. As she shovelled the crème Anglaise into her mouth with her teaspoon,…
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Sunday Brunching at Kilimani’s News Café
‘So you haven’t been to the News Cafés?’ a colleague said. ‘I’m surprised.’ So I went. Last Sunday. For a brunch. At one of the three News Cafés in Nairobi – the one in the Adlife Plaza of Kilimani. (The others are at the Sarit Centre and in the Hardy Estate, Karen.) But I knew…
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Three in One: Jacaranda’s The Node
Last Sunday we went for lunch at the old Pizza Garden. It’s now called The Node. It had a soft opening only last November. And it’s very different from the old place. My Oxford English Dictionary (the best there is!) tells me that, among other mathematical or astronomical kinds of thing, a node is ‘the…
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Discovering and Tasting the Wasp and Sprout
There’s a splendid new café in Loresho. There’s not much in Loresho, apart from rows of residences. Am I right? And the small shopping precinct along Loresho Ridge is a bit shabby, isn’t it? But tucked away behind the shops is a gem of a place – the small but burgeoning Wasp and Sprout. ‘What’s…
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The Juniper Kitchen: Much More than a Bar
‘What is it about Juniper?’ Kwame asked, when I was at his Steak Out restaurant a couple of weeks ago. ‘I mean, they have crowds there in the evenings – and people sitting on beer crates!’ I told Kwame I didn’t know, because I had been warned off the place. When I asked my son,…
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A Golden Tulip Blooms in Nairobi
I saw the poster along Waiyaki Way – the poster telling us that a Golden Tulip had come to Nairobi. I know the Golden Tulip chain. The first link, I believe, was forged in the Netherlands in the early 1960s. Now they have bloomed in many countries around the world. Their website tells us that,…
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