Business Daily africa

2022 - 12 - 23

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Chini Ya Maji: The exclusive bar in a herb farm (Business Daily)

Chini ya Maji in near future will be the bar with a view of a herb farm. Not many bars can beat that.

The game was what it was; a duel full of spirit and heart. And when they fought they fought with heart, the kind of fight I root for. Because it’s not every day that we will watch the World Cup final together, he cracked a rare bottle of Glenfiddich Winter Storm from his extensive and eclectic collection of whiskies, gins and wines.

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Alluring Cafesserie: Coffee house lives to up its billing... and more (Business Daily)

When I asked Mombasa culture connoisseur Jamilla Hassan to recommend a few choice places to eat in her city, she did one better.

On my second go, the Carbonaro Tagliatelle, (a traditional southern Italian dish with bacon, pepperoni, egg, cream, fried onions and parmesan) floored me. Tell us if they match the original. Then a strange thing happened. I simply couldn’t settle on what to order and not because the menu was in a language I did not comprehend but because of its overwhelming array of choices. When I requested room to place my unwieldy travel bags, I was pointed to the open space next to the grinder that I picked out acted as the designated parking space for the trolleys from the relentless stream of shoppers dropping in for a bite. From my perch, I had a clear view of the entrance with a hole-in-the-wall counter serving pastry to mall traffic.

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Nairobi philharmonic Orchestra sets mood with 12 days of christmas (Business Daily)

The foyer of the Galleria Mall in Nairobi is adorned with festive colours, a giant Christmas tree spectacularly lit up.

“In a typical concert setting the audience would be listening quietly and only applaud at the end of each song,” says Mwangi. “The beauty of setting up in a public space is that everyone is free to join in the performance of their favourite carol and that makes it so engaging and fun.” “We would repeat the first verse of a popular carol, rather than go to the second verse so that we can invite people to sing along, and that is the beauty of this music,” says Mwangi. “The descant in While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks is so powerful you feel like you are there between the shepherds and their sheep,” she says. The orchestra is a string ensemble, violin, cello and viola, with the addition of trumpet, flute and a pianist, who as the conductor Anthony Mwangi explains, “changes the colour of the sound’ and keeps the orchestra in pitch. The traditional carols are the soundtrack to the festivities and the joy is palpable on the faces of people who seem delighted to soak up the atmosphere of the season.

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