Karibu Restaurant — Restaurant in Unguja

Great experience as you dine in a place that looks a little bit like a deserted local house-slash-restaurant. The rules are easy - your whole group orders one of the sets (or the only one available that day)(price is 10$ per person) and after what seems to be an eternernity (hakuna matata!) you get the most delicious, authentic, local, home cooked meal you could imagine. It comes in plastic containers so it stays hot and you can refill your plate as much as you want as the lovely mister Hassan will make sure you don't run out of food. And the freshly squeezed fruit juice you get (also an unlimited quantity) is to die for. All in all the meal was one of the best we had in Zanzibar! We even got some flatbread packed in aluminium foil to enjoy back in our...

Being a guest at Hassan's is definitely an experience. You don't go out to a restaurant to eat; you are a guest and treated as such. We were the only guests in the room where Hassan welcomes you. The food is local and authentic Swahili. He explains how the dishes are prepared, and for $10 per person, you get to eat several things. In good tradition, it's much more than you can finish. The specially prepared juice is fantastic and completes the experience. I can only recommend Hassan's to anyone who wants to get to know local cuisine and people and who wants to eat something other than burgers or seafood with fries. Thank you, thank you, Asante Sana for the...

Very authentic food and well spiced. An absolutely „must visit“ if you want to eat real authentic food in Jambiani 😎 Reservation should be done before. We had the fish soup with amazing fresh (warm) bred and the cooked octopus which had amazing spicy taste. Including 1.5 Liters of a very tasteful fresh juice we paid just 40k tzs which is an amazing price compared with the food quality and quantity. We directly made reservation for the Next day 👌 thanks to Hassan and his Wife for...