The Carnivore Restaurant
Open-air churrasco grill famed for endless skewered meat once carved from wild game.
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This guide to The Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi opens with a claim that sounds like a joke but isn't: for two decades after it opened in 1980, waiters here really did carry skewers of wildebeest, zebra, impala and giraffe meat to your table. It follows founder Martin Dunford from a Brazilian churrascaria meal to building a charcoal pit around the animals of the savanna instead, served with no menu and a small white flag that stayed upright as long as you wanted more. Then, in 2004, Kenya banned the sale of wild game meat outright, and the swords went quiet on giraffe and zebra overnight. Listen for what stayed on the fire once the law stepped in.
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