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Carnivore
Vegetarians, please look away now. This is hands down the most famous nyama choma restaurant in Kenya. At the entrance is a huge barbecue pit laden with real swords of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, camel, ostrich and crocodile. As long as the paper flag on your table is flying, waiters will keep bringing the meat, which is carved right at the table.
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Chic Joint
One of our favourite new bar-restaurant discoveries, chic might not be the first word that springs to mind but grills, stews and nyama by the kilo should never go out of fashion. Fresh fish is delivered daily and the tilapia is generally excellent. The patio seating is separated from Uhuru Hwy by a thick hedge, with some sizeable speakers providing music in the evening.
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Dancing Spoon Café & Wine Bar
This bright canteen serves good Western and Kenyan food into the evening, and it's a great place for a steak and beer before you take in a movie.
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FK Restaurant
This immaculate daytime cafeteria at the rear of an office block makes an appealing alternative to the grubbier canteens around it; there's an interior gallery area if you like to look down on your fellow diners. The special breakfast is good value.
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Malindi Dishes
A great little Swahili canteen. As the name suggests, this place serves great food from the coast, including pilau (curried rice with meat), biryanis and coconut fish, with side dishes such as ugali , naan bread and rice. You'll get a grand feed here, but it's a Muslim place, so it's closed for prayer at lunchtime on Friday.
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Nyama Choma Place
This place is highly rated by Kenyans. There's a butchery where you select your meat and then it's tossed on the barbie - any day of the week you'll see clouds of delicious-smelling smoke rising from the restaurant. It's best to come in a group as meat is sold in the form of whole goat legs or complete racks of ribs. Chips or ugali are also available.
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Nyama Choma Stalls
A definite step down the scale, but worth it for the atmosphere, are the backstreet stalls near the Railway Museum, behind the Shell petrol station. Foreigners are a rare sight, but you'll be warmly welcomed and encouraged to sample other Kenyan dishes such as matoke (mashed plantains). A decent lunch should cost no more than around KSh200 . There are similar stalls near the Kenyatta National Hospital, but you might not want to eat so close to sick people!
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Porterhouse Restaurant
Steak-lovers should make this discreetly swish 1st-floor restaurant their first port of call: apart from a few token dishes such as chicken kiev, the menu here is entirely dedicated to the art of carving chunks of cow, and with a two-person Chateaubriand for just around KSh900 it's easy to get into the moo-d (ahem).
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Seasons Restaurant
Whatever the season, the cafeteria vats here always brim with cheap Kenyan and Western favourites. The Nairobi Cinema outlet has a popular bar and beer garden, and there are a couple of similar branches around the centre. You can bring in your own booze, food or miraa (twigs and shoots chewed as a stimulant) for a 'cockage' fee.
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Tamarind Restaurant
Kenya's most prestigious restaurant chain runs Nairobi's best seafood restaurant. The splendid menu offers all manner of exotic flavours, and the lavish dining room is laid out in a sumptuous modern Arabic-Moorish style. Smart dress is expected and you'll need to budget for the full works, particularly if you want wine or cocktails and lobster.
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Tropez
A handy modern restaurant offering fast grills, curries, chicken and the like. The lunchtime buffet is top value, and the breakfast isn't bad either. There's another branch of the same chain, with sports bar, at Zeep (Norwich Union Towers, Mama Ngina St).
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