:: December Pub Crawl

Alright we all know what use December is especially after December 11. Drinking. I will not get any arguments from any one on this. Here are some pubs patronised over the holiday period.

Mwendas, Utalii House, CBD
I had gone to this pub initially and ordered my Tusker when I noted that no one was drinking from a brown bottle. I asked this former colleague of mine who was there and I was shocked to learn that the place is actually a cocktail lounge. I went there over the New Years Eve and had a ball. Cocktails with imaginative names like Dark F**k, Sex appeal and the old favourites Pina Coladas and bloody mary. Cocktails at kshs280 typically and I highly recommend Mudslide (yum yum). Shooters typically at Kshs150 and here I recommend hezbollah (recipe includes fire!)

Habesha II (Formerly chic joint), Utalii House, CBD
They keep changing this joints name. Reminds me of that building with an identity complex on Koinange Street and is now called Cellucom. In earlier lives it has been a Daewoo building, A Samsung one and more. Anyway back to Habesha II. There is Habesha in Hurlingham area. I haven’t been there. The main difference between Habesha II and the Chic Joint as it was then called is that the pictures on the wall are more Ethiopian oriented. And the menu that has Ethiopian food and not beef stew and those old Kenyan favourites. And the Ethiopian ladies that look like you can pay for pare pare. Otherwise its just chic joint.

Visa Place, Upper Hill Area
Went to say goodbye to Mel as she was foing her goodbye event here. Its a really great pub. Nice cold tuskers. Large cavernous set up meaning that you can hide from a marauding wife in case you are hepaing. you need a moti. Or at least a Cabbie John. The area is upper hill as in Up a Hill so none of that pedestrian route 11 bollocks. Tuskers were Kshs100

Enzogu Bar,
Went to this pub after Mels do at Visa Place. The love lingala at the upstairs place which I cannot stand. There is a smaller pub like area at the bottom floor with a TV with DSTV and soft rock blaring. Much better. Tusker Kshs100

K2, Baricho Road
Yes ladies and gentlemen. The pub with the longest bar in Africa (assuming that wasn't a hoax) is back. Same dance floor. Same nice cold Tuskers (at Kshs100). Same pedestrian crowd returning. Not bad. Welcome back K2. Is Kenya night back too?

Fiesta, Chester House, CBD
More classy. Lounge areas where you and your beloved can be hidden from prying eyes. Nice white leather seats. And wooden ones too. A great mixed platter. Tuskers at Kshs120. A great place to chill away from the maddening crowd.

Choices, Baricho Road
Classic. No one dare speak badly about this joint. I spent sometime at this joint and well... They don't seem to have changed much which is a good thing. Meet the faces unseen in years by visiting this pub. Memories of "the Incident" slowly seeping away from me.

Club Soundd, Kaunda Street, CBD
It seems to be the place for pals who are in there mid twenties to hook up. Its smack bang in the middle of Nairobi’s central business district on the second floor of Hamilton house. It has a small dance floor so for those wishing to shake their booty, its not such a bad option. With the high number of campus students witnessed, I have a feeling that in about 10 years time, many will be talking about the good old days of Club Soundd (like some of us still yammer on about the Irish Pub and F3 and Zig Zag and Dreams)

Hooters, Kaunda Street, CBD
This pub continues being the most unfriendly to women patrons. You won’t see mamas at Hootie and you won’t hear me complaining truth be told. This pub is really of the sports pub variety. Everyone seems to know everyone else at least by appearance. And when the game is on there is a studious silence. I will be here when we crush Man U on the 21st (again).

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