Botswana Info
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Posts: 15
Home Country: botswana
|
 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: FOOD & DINING IN BOTSWANA / BOTSWANA DINING GUIDE |
 |
|
FOOD & DINING IN BOTSWANA
Restaurants and bars can be found in main towns, often within hotels. Millet and sorghum porridge constitutes much of the cuisine. Beef and goat are very popular meats. Most lodges and safari camps also have restaurants and licensed bars, although food is generally basic outside major hotels and restaurants. The standard of food in lodges and camps is generally very good. There is local beer and no real restrictions on alcohol.
National specialties
• Morama (an underground tuber).
• The Kalahari truffle.
• The Mopane worm (boiled, cooked
or deep-fried).
• Beans such as cow peas, ditloo and letlhodi, dried bean leaves, plus nuts like peanuts and groundnuts.
• Wild spinach, morogo is very tasty.
• Plenty of watermelons, plus other varieties of melon.
• Seswaa or Chotlho is a popular traditional meat dish cooked with only salt and water and served with pap, a soft maize meal.
• Variations upon bread meals, such as dumplings (matemekwane), flat cakes (diphaphatha) and fat cakes (magwinya).
National drinks
• Palm wine (which is extremely strong) and Kgadi (made from distilled sugar or fungus).
• Traditional beer such as khadi or bojalwa, which tastes a bit like apple cider.
• Homemade ginger beer is popular.
• Bush tea - or Rooibos - is a reddish caffeine-free tea that is soothing and delicious, although something of an acquired taste.
PLACES TO DINE
Audi Camp Restaurant and Bar
Road to Moremi,
Maun
Tel: +267 686-0599
Dimond Creek Spur
Shop 21,
Gaborone
Tel: +267 30-1266
Granny's Kitchen
Letlhakane
Tel: +267 297-8246
Hilary's Coffe Shop
Airport Road,
Maun
Tel: +267 686-1610
Silver Spur Steakhouse
Plot 6143, Francistown
Tel: +267 21-2099
Swiss Chalet
Plot 4, Gaborone
Tel: +267 32-5172 |
|
Register
Log in
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
