The Rock Restaurant Zanzibar
Restaurant perched on a solitary rock offshore, once a fishermen's outpost, reachable on foot at low tide or by boat at high tide.
The guide to The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar City starts with fishermen mending nets on a bare offshore outcrop off Michamvi Pingwe beach around 2010. It follows two Italian friends, Nigel Firman and Andrea Brunetti, who had known each other since Milan in 1978, as Nigel spots the rock and spends months sitting with the fishing village rather than simply buying the site. You'll hear how he and his partner Claudio Moras eventually struck a deal with the villagers to build something small and deliberately limited there. Wade out at low tide to see the sandy channel the fishermen once used.
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