Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour
Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour: Experience Nairobi’s most exotic meal at The Carnivore Restaurant, choosing between an all-you-can-eat lunch or dinner in a garden setting.
Carnivore Restaurant, located around 5 miles (8 km) from Nairobi’s city center, is not for the light eater, but rather an indulgent “Nyama Choma” dining venue where you sample an abundance of varied juicy meats roasted over a charcoal fire that is piled on your plate until your stomach is beyond full.
They offer a variety of juicy meats roasted over a charcoal fire, including Ostrich, Crocodile, Camel, Beef, Lamb, Pork, Chicken, and more, depending on what’s available that day. Delicious side dishes that complete this African cuisine include salads, soups, vegetable dishes, and authentic sauces, as well as desserts and Kenyan coffee.
This dining experience is enhanced by the informal house cocktail, the ‘Dawa’ (Medicine in Swahili), which hydrates, refreshes, and sharpens your palate for every delicious bite. The restaurant is famous for its variety of meats, but it also has options for vegetarians. Vegetarians are well catered for and in an all-eat-as-much-as-you-can setting.
The tour begins with a pick-up at approximately 1800 hours from your Nairobi hotel, followed by a short transfer (3 miles) to the Carnivore Restaurant. Upon your arrival, you will be ushered to your seat to begin your feast. First comes the soup of the day, before a sizzling cast-iron plate is placed in front of you, along with a plate of home-baked brown bread and butter.
An army of carvers wearing zebra-striped aprons and straw hats then move from table to table carrying the Masai swords laden with different prime meats, deliberately carving unlimited amounts onto the sizzling, cast-iron plates in front of you.
Meats available include leg of beef, ostrich, leg of lamb, pork spare ribs, crocodile, chicken wings, pork sausages, beef sausages, and more. Accompanying the meat feast are a wide selection of salads and vegetable side dishes, along with a variety of sauces, arranged on a 2-tiered revolving tray at the center of the table.
Stop the circulation of meat to your table by lowering the white paper flag that is on top of the central tray. Next, enjoy dessert and coffee to top off your meal. The driver will return you to your Hotel at the end of your meal.
Dining Experience
✓ Accompaniments: The meal includes soup, bread, and a wide selection of salads, sauces (garlic, chili, mint, fruit salsa), and potatoes
✓ Atmosphere: The restaurant features a rustic, open-air, garden-like setting with a large, central charcoal pit where the meat is roasted
✓ The Meal: The experience features a variety of meats, including beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, and often exotic options such as ostrich, crocodile, and camel
✓ Service Style: Carvers navigate between tables with large skewers (Maasai swords), carving meat directly onto your sizzling, cast-iron plate until you lower a white flag to signal you are full
Tour Details
✓ Pickup: The tour usually includes hotel, apartment, or airport pickup in Nairobi
✓ Duration: The experience typically lasts around 3 hours
✓ Times: Options are available for both lunch and dinner, often running between 12 PM and 10 PM, with dinner pickups starting around 1800 Hours
✓ Booking: It is highly recommended to book 7 days in advance
✓ Specialty Drink: Trying the Dawa—a vodka-based cocktail with honey, lime, and crushed ice—is considered a mandatory part of the experience
What to know beforehand
✓ Location: The Carnivore is located in the Langata area of Nairobi
✓ Cancellation Policy: A full refund is generally available if cancelled at least 24 hours in advance
✓ Dietary Restrictions: While primarily for meat lovers, vegetarian options are available, though the focus is on the meat experience
Carnivore restaurant dining experience features an open-air meat specialty restaurant featuring an “all-you-can-eat meat buffet” in the Langata suburb of Nairobi. Dining at Carnivore Restaurant, located just 8 km from Nairobi city centre, is a must-visit for first-time visitors to Kenya!
The Carnivore Restaurant is justifiably referred to as Africa’s Greatest Eating Experience and has been voted twice among the world’s 50 best restaurants by UK-based Restaurant magazine. It is the perfect place to be while in Nairobi, for your meal and entertainment. Set in attractive tropical gardens, with outstanding services and decor.
The restaurant’s specialty is meat, with all-you-can-eat lunch or dinner options. The meat is roasted on traditional Masai swords (skewers) over a huge charcoal pit that dominates the restaurant’s entrance. Everyone who comes to Kenya must try the Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi if they are true meat eaters!
Normally, waiters welcome you with a delicious hot soup, then carry around the meat swords, carving unlimited prime cuts onto sizzling cast-iron plates in front of you.
Whole joints of meat – legs of lamb and pork, haunches of venison, rumps of beef, sirloin steaks of lamb, pork sausages, beef sausages, chicken wings, chicken yakitori, chicken tikka, chicken livers and gizzards, pork spare ribs, leg of pork, and skewered kidneys, turkey, etc.
Delicious side dishes that complete this African cuisine include salads, soups, vegetable dishes, and authentic sauces, as well as desserts and Kenyan coffee. The experience is simple, all-you-can-eat: as long as the paper flag on your table is flying, waiters in formal attire will keep bringing the meat, which is carved right at the table.
This dining experience is enhanced by the informal house cocktail, the ‘Dawa’ (medicine in Swahili), which hydrates, refreshes, and sharpens your palate for every delicious bite. Since 1980, when the restaurant opened its doors, over two million international guests have shared in what is known as “the ultimate Beast of a Feast”.
The restaurant is famous for its variety of meats, but it also has options for vegetarians. Vegetarians are well catered for and in an all-eat-as-much-as-you-can setting. Lunch or dinner at Carnivore Restaurant goes for 50 US Dollars per person (2023 Price). Drinks are charged separately, but all food and desserts are included in the price.
It is important to pre-book your meal at The Carnivore Restaurant, as it ensures your seat and the convenience of pickup and drop-off at centrally located accommodations in Nairobi city centre and its environs (transport is optional at an extra cost).
The restaurant is open daily, with lunch served from 1230 hours to 1400 hours and dinner from 1900 hours to 2130 hours.
Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour Prices
Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour Rates Include:
✓ Lunch or dinner at Carnivore Restaurant, Nairobi
✓ Enjoy 15 different types of meat or a vegetarian meal
✓ Professional English-speaking guides – All are experts in African wildlife, culture, and tour guiding
| Dates From | Dates To | Price Per Person | Children Aged 3 to 11 Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st January 2026 | 31st December 2026 | Request for rates | Request for rates |
Notes
* Confirmation will be received at the time of booking
* A vegetarian option is available. Please advise at the time of booking if required
* Children between 3 and 12 years accompanied by an adult pay 75 % of the adult Rate
* Tour Departs Daily: 1200 Hours for Lunch & 1800 Hours for Dinner (Tour Duration: 2 Hours)
Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour Rates Do Not Include:
* Personal expenses such as drinks, telephone calls, etc
* Pickup from your hotel in Nairobi and drop off at your hotel or residence (at an extra cost)
* Visas, international airfares, and airport taxes; meals, and sightseeing are not included in the package
* Tips or gratuity for your Driver Guide, Drinks, Travelers insurance, Laundry, Communication charges
* Optional activities; video filming fees are charged as a supplement and are payable directly to Bomas of Kenya
* Personal expenses such as transfers to/ from the airport (supplement airport transfer cost applies for tours starting from the airport)
Carnivore Restaurant Dining Experience Nairobi Tour Menu
Starter
Soup of the Day with Homemade Fresh Brown Bread
The variety of Meats Served Include
Whole joints of meat – legs of lamb and pork, haunches of venison, rumps of beef, sirloin steaks of lamb, Pork sausages, Beef sausages, chicken wings, chicken yakitori, Chicken tikka, Chicken livers, and gizzards, Pork spare ribs, Leg of pork and skewered kidneys, turkey and much more.
Crocodile / Camel / Haunch of Exotic Meat (Ostrich)
The meats are constantly basted and turned until perfectly cooked; the meat is succulent and well-flavored.
Vegetables and Salads:
A wide selection of salads (mixed salad, rice salad, kidney beans, corn relish, coleslaw), and vegetable side dishes accompany the meat dishes. Sauces include (garlic, fruit salsa, sweet and sour, masala, mint, and chili). The restaurant also offers vegetarian dishes.
Choice of Desserts
(Apple pie, Cheesecake, Strawberries, and Ice Creams)
Kenyan Coffee
Booking & Reservations Carnivore Restaurant Dinner Experience in Nairobi Contact
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