East Africa Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

Eating

It’s important to know that all the cheap places to eat, and many of the more expensive restaurants, are closed until after sunset during Ramadan.

The fruit juices, which almost every restaurant sells, are worth drawing attention to. They’re good. They’re really, really good.

As well as the restaurants listed here it’s worth checking out the very up-market dining on offer at Lamu House or the slightly less-refined rooftop restaurant inside the Stone House Hotel .

Mwana Arafa Restaurant Gardens SEAFOOD $$

(Harambee Ave; meals KSh350-800; lunch & dinner) One of the more upmarket restaurants in Lamu; it has a perfect combination of garden seating and views over the dhows bobbing about under the moonlight. With barbecued giant prawns, grilled calamari, lobster or a seafood platter we guess you’ll be eating the fruits of the sea tonight.

Bustani Café CAFE $

(meals KSh120-300) This is a very enjoyable garden cafe where the tables are set about a lily-bedecked pond. The small menu includes lots of healthy salads and various snack foods. The cafe also contains a decent bookshop and an evening-only internet cafe (KSh240 per hour).

Olympic Restaurant KENYAN $

(Harambee Ave; mains KSh250-700; lunch & dinner) The family that runs the Olympic makes you feel as if you’ve come home every time you enter, and their food, particularly the curries and biriyani, is excellent. There are few better ways to spend a Lamu night than with a cold mug of passionfruit juice and the noir-ish view of the docks you get here, at the ramshackle end of town.

Bush Gardens Restaurant INTERNATIONAL $$

(Harambee Ave; mains KSh180-800; breakfast, lunch & dinner) Bush Gardens is the template for a whole set of restaurants along the waterfront, offering breakfasts, seafood (including ‘monster crab’ and the inevitable lobster in Swahili sauce), and superb juices and shakes mixed up in panelled British pint-mugs.

Tay Ran KENYAN $

(Kenyatta Rd; mains KSh100) This very basic place, which doesn’t even have a sign board (and which might be spelt Tehran – no one behind the counter seemed to know or care) serves dirt-cheap meals of fish, beans done in several ways (the best is maharagwe ya chumvi – with coconut milk) and chapattis. It’s consistently packed with locals.

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