Mount Kenya National Park Restaurants

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Down a stony pass, you find what you least expected on these dry plains, a green spot by the Burguret River. The "restaurant" is cleverly built into an old fig tree.


Once seated you are shaded by the tree enjoying a cool breeze and even cooler beer or wine. They keep it in crates in the icy waters of the river. Every time you order, the crate is hauled up with a rope.

The trout you eat couldn't be more fresh. You can see them jumping in the ponds and the River below the tree...

The menu is simple offering several variations of Trout but also Lamb and Salads, all followed by fresh strawberries.

For a starter, try the Salmon Trout Sashimi. It is worth waiting for as they first catch the trout for this. I doubt you have ever eaten better.


For a main dish I highly recommend the barbequed whole trout, simply but expertly grilled over an open wood flame.

If you still have room for desert, there are always fresh strawberries from the home farm topped by fresh full rich Kenya cream.

A wonderful meal with no preservatives. All the ingredients are grown right on the Trout farm, where you sit.

While you indulge in the culinary delights you may witness a visit of some of our Orphanage graduates. A troupe of some 15 Colobus monkeys that we released in the forest have found their way to the Trout farm where they sometimes come for the juicy leaves, playing and watching the humans below.

The Trout Tree is the sort of Restaurant that has disappeared mostly in the civilized world, Don't miss it

Favorite Dish: While the Trout is definitly the main attraction...I actually had the beef since I don't like the idea of a head, tail, and bones! But they had cold Tusker beer, a great soup, columbus monkeys, tree hyrax, geese, and lots of other critters I couldn't see!