Tag: Restaurant
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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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Chez Sonia: A Taste of France in Peponi Road
As a teenager my first travelling venture was to cycle with my sister to France. From our home town of Boston (the original one) on the east coast of England, we pedalled down to Lydd airport on the south coast, loaded our bicycles on a smallish but wide-bodied plane, landed in Le Touquet, and made…
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Honey and Dough: Nairobi’s Trendy Gourmet Café
Towards the end of last year I featured INTI in this column – the new restaurant at the top of One Africa Place specialising in a unique fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisine. What I didn’t mention was the fact that INTI forms part of a collection of restaurants in Nairobi owned by a local…
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Sampling the New Kengeles Marula in Karen
When I first interviewed Gavin Bell I asked him why he had opened his first Kengeles bar and restaurant in Lavington. That was back in 1998. He told me that he had been offered a good site in Karen, but he hadn’t taken it because the Karen plots were five acres compared with the one…
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The Shamba: Food, Farm Shop and Fun
‘I’m looking forward to doing a Going Places on your Shamba place,’ I said to Paul Simkin, one of the owners, when he told me his farm café had just opened in March. ‘Great, but I hope you will let it bed down a bit,’ he said. I went for lunch last Sunday. As soon…
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The Collective: Good Food, Good Art, Good Music
They call it The Collective. No, it’s not a kibbutz or any kind of communistic settlement. Not at all. It’s a combination of restaurant and gallery: a place where you can go to enjoy good food, good art – and also good music. It opened only a couple of months ago. And, bucking a trend,…
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At the New Osteria Restaurant in Nairobi
There’s a special photograph hanging in the main dining room of the Osteria Milano – Nairobi’s new restaurant in Kedong House at the corner of Lenana and Ralph Bunche roads. The black and white photo is of a lady wearing an apron and standing in the doorway of a restaurant in Milan called Osteria. The…
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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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High Lunch in the Mövenpick, Nairobi’s Newest Posh Hotel
It made me miss the wedding of Harry and Meghan. But it was worth it. Anyway, I couldn’t miss all the repeats. And the royal wedding was a splendid event, wasn’t it? Another reminder that the Brits are the best at putting on a national show of pomp and circumstance. But this one had a…
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