A few weeks, my good friend and I got to visit and experience Bhandini Restaurant at Hotel Intercontinental Nairobi. Hotel Intercontinental is a quiet and peaceful haven right in the heart of the city, close to the Parliament buildings and next to Kenyatta International Convention Center.
The menu is quite extensive and imaginative and those unacquainted with this kind of cuisine may need help picking a meal. The staff are knowledgeable, kind and attentive though so that should not be a problem at all. For some reason I stuck to a safe and familiar cheese naan and mutton curry. When the waiter asked for preferred level of spicy, I picked mild curry. As much as I’m a lover of chili, I opted against asking for ‘hot’ in an Indian restaurant. I however promised myself that next time I will go mentally prepared for hot.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and the rest of my Bhandini story is hereby told in pictures.
My starter was a generous serving of mildly spiced and fried calamari chunks.
The dessert menu featured a wide assortment of Indian sweets and other exotic names but once again I played it safe and went for good old ice cream. I vowed to get much more daring next time I visit.
The Bhandini experience was certainly a fun and smooth one and and all together something I would not hesitate to experience again with friends and family as soon as possible.