Essenzeit — Restaurant in Karas

Do yourself a favour and visit Essenzeit! 🤯

We were so impressed by the hearty welcome and amazing service when we stopped for a few beers upon arriving in town that we returned for dinner.

We enjoyed the most amazing meal - prawn starter and mussel soup followed by a platter for 2. The calamari was succulent and literally melted in our mouths!!! Prawns were prepared just perfectly as were the fish, mussels and oh my hat - the oysters 😋😋😋

Their service is top notch and the menu options and execution thereof doesn’t disappoint! Essenzeit didn’t feature on our top 5 list of restaurants to visit while in Luderitz but somehow ended up being our first stop for a beer as we arrived in Luderitz. (And sadly for us but yay for Essenzeit!!! 🥇🥇🥇our anticipated Nr 1 restaurant destination ended up being a complete letdown. But I think Essenzeit simply raised the bar too high for anyone else in town to look good?! 😅)

I cannot recommend Essenzeit enough to anyone visiting Luderitz - just do it!!! You absolutely will not...

Being a small town there is not a lot of choice in Luderitz. We thought since it has a German name it would imply good food. Something other than seafood. After asking what the recommended meal was we were advised that the T-bone steak was the best. 3 of our group of 4 ordered the t-bone. The T bone was 'terrible'! We asked for medium rare- what we got was very raw steak. Very difficult to cut and eat. Since we had waited 40 minutes for our food to arrive we decided to not send the food back and to eat what we could. When the waitress asked how our food was we let her know that it was terrible. To which she replied 'Really?' And she never asked any further questions or offered any explanation. The lamb chops I ordered, was also a very bad choice. Chump lamb steaks were used and were very rare and tough. Very unfortunate as after spending over a 1000N$ we were left feeling very disappointed. Essenzeit needs better management and a chef who knows how to cook red meat. Two stars only for good location...

Service a bit on the slow side, but that seems to be the case everywhere in Namibia. This never takes away from how friendly an accommodating the staff are.

I asked for a custom made vegan Alfredo pasta and it was very delicious. I also added the veggie of the day to the pasta and it made for a great combination. The sunset cocktail was also amazing and the outside section is also a smoking section so maybe only sit here if you don't mind the smell of cigarettes. The restaurant offers great very of the Luderitz waterfront. A very quiet waterfront compared to CPT for example, but very beautiful clean and neat. On the bottom (downstairs) of the restaurant on a short distance there is also a playground for the kiddies. Wifi was easily accessible and fast . Parking on the road on the side of...