Guidebook for Nairobi
Food Scene
If you like Japanese food this is excellent, I personally like the Kaiso Salad
34 locals recommend
Haru Restaurant
Karen RoadIf you like Japanese food this is excellent, I personally like the Kaiso Salad
This is a restaurant but also a bar and one of the local favourites as a social scene, they have exhibitions and live music sometimes too
90 locals recommend
Talisman
Ngong RoadThis is a restaurant but also a bar and one of the local favourites as a social scene, they have exhibitions and live music sometimes too
Everything Else
Purdy Arms is another local hangout with food, bar and often show sports events, they have a lovely garden and have a eco friendly home grown food market on a Saturday sometimes.It is kid friendly and they often have things such as bouncy castles, archery and various other things, they always do occasions like Halloween and Guy Faulks very well.
17 locals recommend
Purdy Arms
61 Marula LanePurdy Arms is another local hangout with food, bar and often show sports events, they have a lovely garden and have a eco friendly home grown food market on a Saturday sometimes.It is kid friendly and they often have things such as bouncy castles, archery and various other things, they always do occasions like Halloween and Guy Faulks very well.
Parks & Nature
This is a wonderfull experience to get close to orphaned elephants and touch them, well worth it.
69 locals recommend
Elephant and Rhino Nursery
This is a wonderfull experience to get close to orphaned elephants and touch them, well worth it.
This is somewhere where you can go to feed Giraffe as the wonder up to specially made stands so you are at head height ! Well worth it.
356 locals recommend
Giraffe Centre
Duma RoadThis is somewhere where you can go to feed Giraffe as the wonder up to specially made stands so you are at head height ! Well worth it.
This is about 20 minutes away from the house and is a National park where you you can see wildlife almost on your doorstep !
202 locals recommend
National Park
This is about 20 minutes away from the house and is a National park where you you can see wildlife almost on your doorstep !
Shopping
If you want the local feel and to see a good selection of things made by the masai this is one of the places that can be done
59 locals recommend
The Maasai Market
Slip RoadIf you want the local feel and to see a good selection of things made by the masai this is one of the places that can be done
This is one of the many markets to see and buy things made locally
59 locals recommend
The Maasai Market
Slip RoadThis is one of the many markets to see and buy things made locally
This is a fairly new mall not far from the house that has a great selection of shops and restaurants, and often has dancers, live music and other things going on over the weekends
117 locals recommend
The Hub Karen
Dagoretti RoadThis is a fairly new mall not far from the house that has a great selection of shops and restaurants, and often has dancers, live music and other things going on over the weekends
Essentials
This local shopping centre has a couple of supermarkets, a post office, cafe, fresh flower sellers and other local goods for sale.
15 locals recommend
Mandera Shopping Centre
This local shopping centre has a couple of supermarkets, a post office, cafe, fresh flower sellers and other local goods for sale.
Arts & Culture
African Heritage House
Mombasa Road
Alliance Francaise, Nairobi.
Utalii LanePromoting creativity and cultural diversity
This is in the house that Karen Blixen lived in and is kept as it was when she lived there,
150 locals recommend
Karen Blixen Museum
Karen RoadThis is in the house that Karen Blixen lived in and is kept as it was when she lived there,
National Museums of Kenya-Orlogesailie Museum