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Best Bistros and restaurants

• The cuisine of the city is an amalgamation of Portuguese, Oriental, African, Arab that comprise of warm spices, creamy coconut sauces, piquant piri piri and liberal dash of cashews. It is just like Afro-Mediterranean with an Eastern sidewinder.

Food in Maputo:- is synonymous to ‘prawns’ and ‘cold beer’. South Africans are especially gusto about this, so are we, this is the perfect combo and will always be the signature Mozambican dish. A chilled Dois M or a Laurentina are excellent choice of beers along with a platter of finger-licking prawns. This is one of the top reasons to visit Maputo and travel bugs are ready to happily attempt prawnicide to taste the flavors of Maputo.

Maputo seafood • is simply mouth-watering and

famous for lagosta (crayfish), camaroes (prawns), peixe grelhada (grilled catch of the day), lulas (calamari) and ameijoas (clams). Chicken is also a popular dish especially galinha a Zambeziana which is basically a chicken dish with lime, pepper, garlic and piri-piri sauce. You can also taste the traditional dish of cassava leaves, matapa cooked in peanut sauce. Caril or curry dishes are common including some evening snacks chamusa( samoosas). Meat dishes are usually good as most of the raw products are imported from SA.

• The city also has an array of diverse restaurants, bistros, street fare and cafes. Along Avenida Marginal, downtown and the beach road there are fine dining, family restaurants, ambient bistros and pavement cafes which are good enough reasons to plan a Maputo trip. Here you can go for Thai, Portuguese, Mozambican, Ethiopian, Morrocon and lip-smacking street food. All across the city you will find Portuguese food which is known for its baked items. There are number of cafes, pastelaria and salao de cha that serves fresh pao and delicious pastries. Maputo is also famous for its coffee shops that serve authentic espressos, cappuccinos, assorted coffee-combo regmakers and latte. Therefore, get Book Low cost Flights from Heathrow(LHR) to Maputo(MPM) in Kenya Airways by booking your vacation online.

• If you love Portuguese meal then head straight to convivial Tavern a at 995 Avenida Julius Nyerere that serves authentic cozinha tipica, seafood, steaks, trinchado, slow cooked lamb and meat on skewers. This place also has the best wine in Maputo.

• Zambi’s at 8 Avenida 19 de Novembers is an upbeat meeting and eating joint that has all right ingredients for a long and decadent lunch amidst the long palm trees and sea views. This place also has cozy dinner space and shaded rooftop in an unusual building designed by avant-garde Portuguese architect Pancho Guedes in 1950’s. It was once a pole dancing club but now it is lively place that serves best of the garlic bread in Maputo, you can also try their gateau dessert. Its assorted salad platter is a meal itself. Prawns cooked in beer or clams in white wine sauce are also in the menu.

• he best prawns in the town are at the Bayview Restaurant at Southern Sun. There is also an elegant North African restaurant that faces towards the ocean where you can dine and view the scenic beauty. The home to ‘original LM prawn’ is still Costa do Sol (10249 Avenida Marginal) which is a historic and vibrant spot at the northern end of Avenida Marginal which goes back to colonial times that is run by Petrakakis family since 1938. Do not forget to taste the traditional Maputo cocktail-caipirinhas which is a good enough reason to look for Last Minute Flights to Maputo.

• he best prawns in the town are at the Bayview Restaurant at Southern Sun. There is also an elegant North African restaurant that faces towards the ocean where you can dine and view the scenic beauty. The home to ‘original LM prawn’ is still Costa do Sol (10249 Avenida Marginal) which is a historic and vibrant spot at the northern end of Avenida Marginal which goes back to colonial times that is run by Petrakakis family since 1938. Do not forget to taste the traditional Maputo cocktail-caipirinhas which is a good enough reason to look for Last Minute Flights to Maputo.