Elephante Commons — Restaurant in Gulu

Does it get better than Elephante Commons? First, let’s clarify that this is a place with a restaurant, hosting many local organizations offices, a community library, and meeting spaces galore. For this review, I am focusing just on the restaurant.

Expertly trained, friendly staff make excellent coffee, juices, and cocktails. You could spend every meal of every day here and be satisfied from breakfast to dinner. Try the pizza, try the salads, try the tex-mex, try it all.

They also have a fantastic menu of local dishes - especially at lunch. Pictured is a personal favorite, a smoked beef dish (smoked beef served in ground nut sauce). The Malakwong and cow pea stew are...

My favorite hostel in Uganda. This place is amazing, it felt like a rehabilitation center in the best possible way. The food and coffee options at the cafe were amazing (highly recommend the kale chips and cappuccino). The dorms are so comfortable and I loved the outdoor showers. The community and staff are extremely kind as well.

Overall - the perfect place to stay overnight, socialize, eat, and work in Uganda. I met so many other interesting people while here. I consider it my new...

While the food quality is mostly steady, the service is somewhere between mediocore and terrible. Some individuals are trying, but the majority does not even do that. If you do not mind to wait for hours and/or get a wrong order and/or get an incomplete order, this is the right place for you. The service is mixing up things, writing them down wrongly and there is not much will to make up for any of it. It is a nice location and a good menue, just do not...