The Carnivore Restaurant Experience in Nairobi: Lunch or Dinner

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Duration
4 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
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Savor a meat feast at Nairobi's Carnivore Restaurant with ostrich, crocodile, and more. Indulge in side dishes, desserts, and Kenyan coffee as you dine in a lush garden. Transport is included.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
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Experience Details

When you're in Nairobi, don't miss the chance to have a meal at the famous Carnivore Restaurant—the ultimate 'Beast of a Feast'—known for its variety of meat including ostrich, crocodile, pork, beef, lamb, and camel, roasted over charcoal and carved at your table. The fixed-price meal includes side dishes, an array of sauces, soup, a selection of desserts, and Kenyan coffee. While you eat, enjoy the tropical garden setting and attentive service. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included. Select the lunch or dinner option when booking.

What You Get

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Lunch or dinner, per option selected
Alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Good To Know

  • Vegetarian option is available; please advise at time of booking if required
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult

What You’ll Experience

You will be picked up at your Nairobi hotel and driven to the Carnivore, which is just 2.5 miles (4 km) from the city center. Since its inception in 1980, the restaurant has played host to more than 2 million customers from across the globe, including celebrities who come to enjoy whole joints of meat, like legs of lamb and pork, ostrich, rumps of beef, sirloins, racks of lamb, spare ribs, sausages, chicken wings, skewered kidneys, and even crocodile. The meat is roasted on traditional Maasai swords over a huge charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant (a vegetarian menu is also available). With its rough-cut beams and local woods, the atmosphere of the restaurant combines the rustic feel of a rural environment with the grandeur of a medieval banquet hall. The Carnivore doesn’t conform to the traditional restaurant protocol of passing out menus and waiting for people to order. When you arrive, you simply sit down on your zebra-striped chair, and the moveable feast begins. First comes the soup of the day, and then a sizzling cast-iron plate is placed in front of you, along with home-baked brown bread and butter. An army of carvers in aprons and straw hats move from table to table, carrying the swords laden with the different prime meats, carving unlimited amounts onto your plate. Accompanying your meat is a wide selection of salads and vegetables, plus a variety of sauces stacked on a 2-story revolving tray in the center of your table. When you've had enough, you can end your feeding frenzy by lowering the white paper flag perched on the central tray, which signals that you're ready for dessert and coffee. Beverages are at your own expense, so you can choose what you'd like to drink. Highly recommended is the house cocktail the Dawa, which means 'medicine' or 'magic potion' in Swahili. Based on a Brazilian drink, the Dawa was introduced to Kenyans at the Carnivore and has become one of the most widely consumed cocktails in the country. If you order it, it's brought to you on a tray by a 'medicine man' named Dr. Dawa.  At the end of the Carnivore experience, you will be dropped off at your hotel.

Meeting & Pickup

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Nairobi, Kenya, KE

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Pick up / drop off from your Nairobi hotel or the city Centre Approximate Departure time: 12:00 – 12:30 or 18:30 – 19:00 Approximate time of return to hotel: 16:00hrs or 21:30hrs
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 72 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Good Dining Experience
December 09, 2024
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Driver was great. She picked us up and dropped us off. We enjoyed the dinner experience and only paid for our drinks. It is a must try restaurant when in Nairobi.

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Amazing
December 14, 2023
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Love the food, the staff, and the atmosphere, simply amazing, definetily an experience to repeat and then i recommend

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Extra ordinary
December 05, 2023
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Amazing dishes. Perfect serving. Warm welcoming from all the waiters Trying dr.dawa drink is a must while visiting …

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September 11, 2023
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If you are ever in Nairobi we highly highly recommended! Try their signature drink called the Dawa. All the staff were so friendly and we even met the owner! What a wonderful experience

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Highly recommended
March 26, 2023
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We had a great time. The food and atmosphere was amazing. Pick up and drop were on time. Our driver Bernard was very friendly and helpful.

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