Nairobi

Food and Restaurants

Alan Bobbe’s Bistro is a French Bistro gourmet restaurant with a rich décor. The dress code is formal, food is mouthwatering and menu extensive.

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Alan Bobbe’s Bistro

Alan Bobbe’s Bistro is a French Bistro gourmet restaurant with a rich décor. The dress code is formal, food is mouthwatering and menu extensive.

The Lord Errol

The Lord Errol is a premium French and International cuisine restaurant situated in a peaceful location. It is a favourite of Nairobi’s expatriate crowd as well as local Kenyans.

Furusato

Furusato, is a Japanese specialty restaurant. Considered the best in Nairobi for sushi, sashimi, tepanyaki, tempura and other Japanese specialities.

The Carnivore

The Carnivore is considered amongst the top barbecue restaurants of the world. An open air restaurant it is a unique experience and a must for every visitor, especially for meat eaters.

Trattoria

Trattoria is famous for its Italian specialities. The desserts here are mouth watering. The restaurant is on two floors and the upstairs balcony area gets packed every evening.

Thorn Tree Café

Café is an upmarket café with international cuisine. It has great atmosphere and the Acacia Tree in the centre is legendary.

Tamarind Restaurant

Tamarind Restaurant serves the best seafood brought in fresh from the coast everyday. Besides seafood the restaurant has a range in other meats and vegetarian dishes.

Panda Chinese Restaurant

The interiors are classy and this is a popular restaurant even though it takes time to find it on Kaunda street.

Fiesta Restaurant and Bar has international dishes on its menu giving authentic flavours to food in its varied choice. Service with a smile is the motto of the staff. The décor is bright and appealing.

Siam Thai

Siam Thai serves authentic Thai food which is perhaps truer to the taste than attempts by other Chinese or Thai restaurants in Nairobi. It has a very pleasing setting and friendly, helpful staff.

Slimmers Restaurant

There is always some form of entertainment here with a lot of live music as well as recorded, making the atmosphere very enjoyable.

Gypsy’s

Gypsy’s serves Spanish food and has many specialties served with ‘tapas’. It is open for lunch daily except Sunday and open for dinner from 5 pm onwards everyday. Credit cards are not accepted here.

Café Latino

Café Latino is an Italian menu restaurant. The mood here is young and lively. A perfect place for holiday makers to relax and enjoy themselves while they savor delicious Italian food.

Sarit Centre

Sarit Centre on Parklands road, has a food court on the 2nd floor, where all kinds of international and African food can be ordered at different counters. The rates are reasonable and portions good.

Porterhouse Restaurant

Porterhouse Restaurant is an African specialty steak restaurant. It is famous for its beef steaks, though other meats are also available. It is reasonable and serves decent portions with good taste.

Nyama Chaoma Place

Nyama Chaoma Place is a favourite with Kenyans and has African barbecue for meat, poultry and game. Here one selects the raw meat, which is then cut the way you like it and cooked on the barbecue.

Akasaka Restaurant

Akasaka Restaurant is a mid range Japanese restaurant serving wonderful Japanese dishes at fairly reasonable prices. The interiors are created with care and style.

Daas Ethiopian Restaurant

Daas Ethiopian Restaurant is immensely popular as a reasonable Ethiopian food specialty restaurant. The Ethiopian wine and coffee are special. Traditional Ethiopian entertainers perform everyday.

Haandi

A favourite not only with the huge Indian population, it is frequented by people of all nationalities for authentic tastes in Mughlai, tandoori and vegetarian dishes.

Phoenician Restaurant

Phoenician Restaurant is a Lebanese specialty restaurant, with a lot of choices especially in the vegetarian fare. It is a fairly new restaurant and probably the first in Kenya.

Supreme Restaurant

Supreme Restaurant serves Indian vegetarian thalis which are reasonable and offer a great spread of Punjabi Indian food with curries, rice, chappatis, vegetables, dal, desert etc.

Seasons Restaurant

Seasons Restaurant has African as well as international food. It is a movie outlet hence has a perpetual crowd. Beer can be ordered or one can bring their own booze if ready to pay a fee for it.

Malindi Dishes

Malindi Dishes serves African food from the Swahili region. The coastal food specialties are biryanis and fish with coconut flavors. This serves great Muslim food and is owned by a Muslim.

Kahwa

Kahwa is an international café which serves a great wholesome breakfast. The lunch and dinner menus have steaks and grilled foods, as well as Mexican, American, Asian, European and African menus.