For our last night in Zambia we decided to try the Uber expensive hotel restaurant at the Royal Livingstone by Anantara.
I should mention that the previous night we went to the hotel bar to enjoy some burgers and salads and the service was so herenden us that it took almost 2 hours to get our food and then it all came out so wrong... Luckily they didn't charge us for most of the meal.
The ensuing night was a much more productive evening and of course the Restaurant manager and her team were all over us after what happened the previous night.
We had just returned from an amazing cruise on the river on the African Queen and we were not that hungry and each of us ordered only an appetizer or main course.
Bunny Chow was a slow cooked venison with curry gravy and peas in a quasi-popover/muffin that was supposed to look like a bunny; a fairly small main, but tasty.
Royal Oxtail Stew comes with stuffed Zambezi cabbage and was a hearty tasty main, while the starter of Slow cooked Crocodile Tail was in a huge salad with peas and was bigger than some mains. The salad was cold and we all said the dish would be better if the crock meat was warm, but the breaded meat was oddly cold(think cold chicken fingers).
My Ifisashi was a local treat made with sauteed spinach, ground peanuts, potatoes and Nshima, a large white corn polenta bun that sat atop the creamed spinach-like dish that was delicious.
The bread won no prizes, but our Voldeling Baldrick Shiraz 2016(the menu said 2014. but they were out of that)from Voor-paarderberg in South Africa was a winner at 35$us...one of the cheapest on the.menu.
Grenadilla was the lone dessert of passionfruit mango jelly with coconut parfait and was okay at best.
An interesting meal for sure, but not a winner, though surely better than the previous night where everything went wrong.
This is probably the last meal I will write about from Africa since the next 4 nights in Botswana are at private reserve camps which you would have to book through me to enjoy the wonderful food there!
