Eating Out

Bizzy Bistro   Lunch along the outside veranda of the Alliance Francaise is a perfect choice almost any time of the year. Mariam and Pamela started up their restaurant service over ten years ago to meet the challenge of the varying demands from a regular private and corporate clientele. This keeps both ladies on their […]

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Restaurant Review

At the risk of being done in by some of Lusaka’s residents, I have to let you in on one of the best-kept secrets in a long time – El Toro Restaurant in Sable Road, Kabulonga, in the same premises as Cascades. Owned and run by Ian and Rosita Nugara, El Toro was originally a […]

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Restaurant Review

St Elmo’s With thirteen children for my daughter’s birthday sleepover, we decided that lunch at St Elmo’s, the new pizza joint in Kabulonga would be a good idea – the kids would enjoy it, and we could relax until their respective parents picked them up at 3 pm. We hadn’t booked a table, which was […]

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Restaurant Review

Voodoo Lounge With Christmas just around the corner, it was time to make arrangements for a Christmas lunch for the Lowdown Bunch and for one of the ladies from Businet, downstairs (Paul was too miserable to give both of them time off!). Always hardworking, we agreed that this should be at one of the new […]

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Restaurant Review

Lusaka’s residents are being inundated with places to eat.  Four new restaurants opened in Lusaka during November, and an old one, Danny’s & Memories of China has reopened.  We will be reviewing these restaurants over the next few months. If you drive along Katima Mulilo Road in Roma, past Zambezi Road, you will find La […]

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Oriental Gardens

Following warm recommendations by friends, we decided to have dinner in the recently re-opened (ex-Chantal’s) restaurant, the Oriental Garden. We were greeted by country and western music which continued all evening. A few men sitting at the bar, otherwise the place was empty. There were checked cloths on the tables, and one could admire one’s […]

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Restaurant Review

Jaylin Finished, at last! The pressure of putting the last issue of the Lowdown together was over and now it was time to unwind, at least for a day or two, before I started thinking about this issue. But, I had a house full of ten-year olds, who all needed to be fed and watered, […]

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Restaurant Review

Mr Pete’s Steakhouse   For the last month, numerous promises had been made to meet for lunch but no date had been set. Suddenly it was Friday, and my friend of many years was leaving Zambia the next day. Having been tied up in meetings all morning and with preparation still to be done for […]

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