Tag: Restaurant
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Meanwhile: At the Crossroads
A journalist friend once gave me a very good tip if ever I wanted to write another column. “Call it ‘Meanwhile’”, he said. It’s a clever idea, isn’t it? ‘Meanwhile’ – it must be the most common linking word in journalist’s toolkit. You know how it goes: “……. and so, with a string of five […]
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Revitalising Valley Arcade
I lost my political virginity on the beach south of Dar es Salaam. It was back in the early 1980s and in the Ujamaa days of Julius Nyerere. The taps in the state-run hotel where I was staying often ran dry, the rooms were shabby, the food was tasteless, the service was usually slack and […]
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Winning Steaks at the Racecourse
It was the banner over Ngong Road that caught my eye. ‘Steve’s Steakhouse now open at the Racecourse’ it said. Yet another guy is trying to make a go of the Racecourse site, I thought. There have been quite a number of restaurants opening there; some good, some not so good – and, despite the […]
Going Places Africa 