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Baby Marrow
Everything about this place is quirkily stylish, from the thatched veranda and the plant-horse to the Italian-based menu and the tasty seafood. We're hoping the 'titramisu' is a misprint though.
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Bahari Cafe
Close to the souvenir shops at Uhuru Park, Bahari is a bright little fast-food café serving biryanis.
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Baobab Restaurant
On the seafront near the boatyards, Baobab is reasonably popular and offers decent Western and African food and beers.
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I Love Pizza
A very popular Italian restaurant on the seafront, full of diners pointedly ignoring the cringeworthy name. Luckily the pizzas are excellent.
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Jardin Lorna Restaurant
Amid the trees and obsolete beer pumps, this peaceful garden restaurant serves up a limited but unusual selection of French, Italian and African dishes, from standard grills to 'Chinese fondue' (beef with a range of sauces). Lobster starts at around KSh600 , which is pretty good value.
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Karen Blixen Restaurant
A fine (wait for it…) Italian terrace restaurant hinting at Art Deco style. The menu has all the usual and an added dose of Chinese, seafood and grill dishes, plus crocodile and warthog (!). It's also good for a morning cappuccino.
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La Malindina
In the network of streets behind Lamu Rd is the very upmarket Italian restaurant, La Malindina. It is open in high season only, and serves set meals.
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Lorenzo's
In the network of streets behind Lamu Rd is the very upmarket Italian restaurant, Lorenzo's. It is open in high season only, and serves set meals. Lorenzo's is part of the private Mwembe Resort, off Lamu Rd.
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Malindi Sea Fishing Club
A popular hang-out for the deep-sea fishing crowd. The walls feature some huge stuffed sharks and billfish in dramatic poses. The seafood is excellent. It's a great place for a sundown beer, but it closes early and you have to pay a temporary membership fee.
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Old Man and the Sea
Definitely the daddy of Malindi's restaurants, this old Moorish house on the seafront really has no competition in its class. The food's superb, service is attentive, you can get decent wine by the glass and the guestbook is effusive and entertaining reading - apparently Tupac Shakur returned from the grave to eat here. A 16% VAT charge is added to the bill.
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Palentine Tea Room
A recommended all-hours Muslim canteen opposite the old market, serving stews, curries, pilau and soups in tiled surroundings. It's friendly and almost always busy.
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Stars & Garters
A large makuti -roofed bar with pool tables, cable TV, beers and a quite reasonable menu offering all the usual grills and spills.
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Surahi Restaurant
What, no spaghetti? Break the habit with an Indian meal at this big restaurant, which has a variable menu and a particularly good range of naan and paratha (Indian flatbread). It's down a long, bumpy dirt track off Lamu Rd, and sadly seems to go to pieces slightly outside high season.
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