Central Tanzania
The menu here goes global with choices such as pizza, fish and chips, dhal tadka and fajitas. There are three separate menus and options: Italian, Indian…
Must-see restaurants in Tanzania
Southern Highlands
This popular hotel restaurant has a large menu featuring good Indian cuisine, including vegetarian selections and naan bread, plus Chinese and continental…
Moshi
Garden seating, good coffee, and homemade bread, cakes, yoghurt, breakfast, soups and low-priced light meals. Of the latter, the local dishes (choose a…
Zanzibar Town
Buni is a no-nonsense cafe serving toasted sandwiches, burgers, salads, cakes, smoothies, crepes, paninis, fresh juices and coffee. You can sit inside…
Dar es Salaam
This informal eatery is a Dar institution. Choose from grilled chicken, fish or beef plus delicious sauces and sides, including green chilli, red chilli…
Zanzibar Island
Dig your toes into the sandy floor of this palm-thatched local eatery and tuck into simple but tasty local meals like grilled fish and octopus curry…
Central Tanzania
Behind a small petrol station opposite the exit from the bus station, this unexpectedly attractive place offers local fare, always including a veggie dish…
Dar es Salaam
This informal eatery shares space with a bridal hire shop. There's no menu, but the lunchtime meal (ready around noon) includes tasty local staples such…
Dar es Salaam
This upmarket Indian restaurant serves tasty North Indian cuisine featuring rich, creamy curries seasoned with chillies, saffron, yoghurt and nuts…
Moshi
This popular place sits at the southwestern end of Uhuru Park, with a comfortable, green outdoor eating area. It serves up tasty beef and chicken dishes,…
Southeastern Tanzania
This popular local-style eatery serves good-value chicken, fish, beans, mishikaki (marinated, grilled meat kebabs) and other standard local fare, plus…
Western Tanzania
If you are willing to exercise your Swahili to its fullest and don't mind if things get lost in translation, this no-name eatery has delicious cheap set…
Dar es Salaam
Located in the Slipway shopping complex, this place is Dar's most popular sundowner spot, with westerly views over Msasani Bay. Palm-thatched umbrellas…
Dar es Salaam
This long-standing and popular local eatery serves roasted chicken, biryani and coconut-crusted fish. In addition, the large menu features fast-food…
Moshi
This hole-in-the-wall coffee shop does a decent chicken salad or steak, but they're an excuse, really, to nurse a chai mocha, caramel frappe or damn-fine…
Western Tanzania
This popular local hang-out offers samosas and other snacks, plus a good-value buffet. The price depends on the meat you choose. There is a second branch,…
Northern Tanzania
Serves a few extras, such as vegetable curry and spaghetti bolognese, alongside the usual suspects (chicken and chips) in little huts. It’s on the main…
Dar es Salaam
Dar's best Lebanese restaurant serves a good selection of hot and cold meze dishes, shish kebabs and salads. No alcohol is served but there are fresh…
Southern Highlands
Snacks and local-style meals, plus a small bakery. From the market, go uphill for about 400m, take the second right (there's a sign for the Lutheran…
Bagamoyo
Coffees, spiced tea, milkshakes, chapati wraps, pizza and local-style meals are among the offerings at this small, popular place in the old town centre…
Western Tanzania
Next to the market; inexpensive samosas and other snacks plus local-style meals, including rice and beans. It's on the unnamed alley behind the Grand…
Arusha
Passable Chinese-owned restaurant with fast service and 'Far East meets the Wild West' decor – let's face it, when did a Chinese restaurant in Africa ever…
Southeastern Tanzania
The fish market at the Msangamkuu ferry dock is good for street food, selling grilled pweza (octopus), vitambua (rice cakes) and other delicacies. Food is…
Dar es Salaam
Mishikaki (marinated, grilled kebabs), plus chipsi mayai (omelette mixed with French fries) and other local staples, and a mix of local and expat…
Central Tanzania
This brilliantly named restaurant has a big menu of local foods, from goat pilau to chicken and chips. It’s alongside the market, just west of the Ismaili…
Southern Highlands
Look out for this pinky-orange building with an open-air counter. It serves tasty and filling lunches: beef, chicken or fish with ugali or pilau rice and…
Southern Highlands
This hotel restaurant serves a small selection of local-style dishes. It's nothing special, but the food is decent, service is efficient and it offers a…
Southeastern Tanzania
This long-standing local favourite is on the scruffy side, but meals – chicken or fish and rice or chips – are quick and reliable. There's no alcohol. It…
Central Tanzania
Not a real Wimpy, but it does have greasy burgers along with the usual assortment of local meals and snacks, most of them of Indian origin like bhaji and…
Pemba
A basic eating house serving local dishes, such as beans or fish and rice. There's no sign; look for the outdoor counter under a tree a few shops up the…
Southeastern Tanzania
Kilwa's lively night market gets going each evening from around 6pm, with grilled pweza (octopus), mishikaki (grilled meat skewers) and other snacks.
Southern Highlands
Fresh milk, yoghurt and delicious Italian cheeses. It’s just off the main road; turn in by the TFA building and go down about two blocks. The shop is to…
Moshi
This roadside destination has two big menus, Indian and Italian. Both are quite good, but the Indian dishes are preferable. Try the fish masala or the…
Northern Tanzania
The Blue Turaco Pizza Point, unmissable along the south side of the main road, makes good wood-fired pizzas. Seating is in a small courtyard area just…
Moshi
This smooth place does good coffee and everything from burgers to biryani; Tuesday is biryani day. In the evening it morphs into a very cool lounge space.
Dar es Salaam
Huge beef, chicken and fish mishikaki (marinated, grilled kebabs), barbecue chicken and freshly baked garlic naan in a streetside setting.
Arusha
Mirapot serves local fish dishes, traditional beef stew, and chicken in coconut sauce, as well as burgers, sandwiches and decent local coffee.
Dar es Salaam
Enjoy tasty samosas, kebabs, chapati and other snacks plus a delicious cup of chai (tea) with the locals in this classic corner place.
Mwanza
Plastic tables and chairs, a semi-open-air environment, and burgers, fried chicken and chips make this a popular local lunch stop.
Southern Highlands
This small but well-stocked supermarket is a good bet for self-caterers. It's near the southeastern corner of the market.
