Sea Food

The Ocean Basket is a South African sea food franchise that's opened recently in Kenya. It was my first time at a sea food restaurant without the crew, I know Dj Kookz will kill me but he'll be happy with my review, it was just me and my lovely pigsney Laura Mutonyi and at the restaurant located at the Oval in Westlands.
The restaurant was beautiful, with a white and blue decor setting. We sat outside on the last table, as we were warmly welcomed, the service was top notch that had to be said.

We were offered our menus, though we already knew what we had planned to eat but we didn't mind going through it. We were forced to buy starters and drinks which was disappointing as compared to Fogo Gaucho and Pampa where the starters are freely offered. 

Our waitress amazed us with her powerful use of her tongue in pronouncing some of words, it sounded like she was speaking piglatin we just couldn't understand, when she was done speaking, she looked at Laura then looked at me, I smiled back and I was like"ummm sijaelewa anything, please rudia ". Then we heard that meru accent she was hiding, as she explained everything in swa, that whole moment took 6 minutes I wasn't timing but I'm sure it did. We finally ordered the platter for two that contained 6 mussels, 12 prince prawns, rice,  chips,  grilled calamari and calamari heads. Our meal came within minutes.

The mussels for those that don't know are those shells that have something in it and you have to suck it out, yeah that thing.
It's actually quite nice but much better when you squeeze alil bit of lime in it.
The calamari was the best of all, well fried and tasty and the calamari heads were just a delight.
The prawnsssss!! not that I'm excited saying it but I have to admit something that may sound quite weird. In Uganda fried grasshoppers are a delicacy and if your wondering how shrimps taste with the skin, their exactly like grasshoppers only that there is more to eat when it comes to shrimps,
I shit you not, that's the plain truth. 

But all in all it was a great night, disappointed that the free starters offered was bread with butter only but besides that it was okay, service was good,  staff were good too it was great not better than Fogo Gaucho or Pampa restaurant but it's all Good, can't wait for the next adventure.

Churrasco Gaucho

I felt like I was chuckie from shameless, never have I been so satisfied to the point that I thought I'd need crutches to walk to the car, I recall theirs a point we were in the car with Kookz and we weren't sure if we should use our seat belts that's how bad being satisfied can be.
The location wasn't quite hard to find it was easy given the fact that was at night we didn't struggle getting the place. It was quite breezy though I thought Chris Brown was in town haha. But anyway it looked quite good. We were warmly welcomed it almost felt like royalty, I loved the setting it was really beautiful and the ambience was good. We noticed a few staff members that were from the Wetlands branch and they remembered us almost too well.
Unfortunately their starters weren't as good as Pampa Restaurant, where we get a plate of fries and fried Cassava "Deo's favorite" and ugali nuggets, in fact I don't even remember where the starters disappeared too cause I recall seeing a samosa and cake I think I'm not sure.
What was amazing to see was the salad table,  it's the best I've seen from all the Brazilian restaurants we've been to, with plenty of variety to chose from. I went for our special "me and Edu" potato salad by the way.. "Nana if your reading this you know what you owe me" ...so back to the story I had chicken Stroganoff , some salami, Quesadillas, they looked like baby pizzas for real and abit of sundried tomatoes and some cheese. Kookz went for the more greener stuff with some salami to the side and cheese.
The salami had an unusual taste, it's like it was left over soya sauce or something, I liked the potato salad it was quite good i also had a bit of mash potatoes too mixing it with the variety of sauces offered.
Their cutlery was just normal not like Pampa's that's customized, we flipped our cards to green anticipating on what was to come and it just had to top beef  sirloin, which I don't like much but we decided to try it out, the first brunch of crocodile meat was hard, damn i didn't even eat it but I could see the struggle Kookz had in slicing it,  then came the pork sausages that were just there, no flavours added on to it just plain and simple which was sad same as the chicken which I love so much and the pork ribs we porkfebians love. 
But what I loved most was their service, they responded to our comments and told the chef about our complaints.
The Nile Perch was was good actually it didn't taste hard as it usually does as compared to Tilapia that's different,  it's softer and has more taste. 
The paintings were beautiful but there was one I couldn't quite decipher the meaning behind it, the ceiling was lovely too with speakers fitted, the kitchen was quite close which was kinda good as compared to other restaurants where you hardly see the chef and his crew.
Finally the desert.  It was amazing I was too stuffed to have much but I wish I could, their dessert offer is totally different from all other restaurants, not the usual fruit salad and pineapple cinnamon that we often have, they had cake, pineapple cinnamon, fruit salad and plenty of more cake. I had the pineapple cinnamon and fruit salad, I don't know what was up with Kookz tongue cause he found it horrible and opted for cake of which I tasted, it was okay not so bad but I wouldn't trade my fruit salad for it.