Tag: Restaurant
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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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The New Italian Restaurant in Nairobi
I had only one day left for the pleasures of Nairobi city life before flying off to a rural compound in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State – where I knew I would be living on a diet of rice and beans for a couple of weeks. Maurizio, the ebullient host of the popular La Tasca […]
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Brunch at the About Thyme ‘Refuge’
It’s a clever name for a restaurant, isn’t it – About Thyme? Yes, they do make good use of the thyme herb in some of their recipes, but the name also prompts you to think that it’s about time to make another visit. That’s what I thought last Sunday morning when I felt like something […]
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A Piece of France down Riverside Drive
It was last Sunday and it was Mother’s Day. And when my son, Andreas, said ‘Should we take Mum out for lunch’, I had to agree – though I did add, ‘As long as it is to somewhere I can write about’. So Andreas looked through the latest edition of Yummy, and he came up […]
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A Piece of Dublin Comes to Nairobi
‘I expect this is a very good place in the evenings,’ my colleague Elizabeth remarked. I reckoned she said that because, just after 12 am last Sunday morning, there were only a couple of other tables occupied on the broad terrace in the curved Mirage building and overlooking Chiromo Road. But, by the time we […]
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A Taste of Spain in Lavington Green
‘Hi!’ the girl said as she joined her partner with his dark suit, who had been waiting and had reserved a seat for her at the bar. ‘This is nice!’ ‘Yes,’ he said ‘This is the new hangout.’ I hope he is wrong. ‘The new hangout’ sounds to me like something temporary. Hangers out in […]
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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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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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Finding Peace in the Amani Garden Café
It was Jamhuri Day and the family unanimously voted for a celebration lunch – which would be the last one in 2016 since, for once, we were going our different ways for Christmas. As for the place, the vegetarian and fellow-travelling members, outvoted me – they chose the Amani Garden Café in Westlands. We sat […]
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