Easter brings a good market tide in Nyeri

Easter holiday is bringing good times for food merchants in Nyeri as they intentionally lure diners with an array of delicacies moderately spiced up to sneak in a taste of modernity while maintaining heritage.

Inside a local hotel

Chefs are nowadays at liberty of displaying their expertise in adjusting their culinary prowess to welcome and satisfy the visitors and many children on holiday but more importantly to make all feel at home.

A local food and beverages manager from one of the major hotels in Nyeri disclosed that menus have been reviewed to cater for the rising domestic market.

The kitchen rules in many restaurants are usually amended to almost match with those of home cooking but with professional mix of ingredients.

Roasting chicken

The menus are usually kept away and services extended outside the premises especially for those restaurants with vast compounds just to create a feeling of garden party.

The aroma of barbecued meat locally known as ‘nyama choma’ from local meat places sparingly sprinkled salt and spices with Rosemary herb twigs dominates the atmosphere and for avoidance of doubts, nothing goes to waste from a goat.

A garden party set up at the Golden Gates hotel

Chefs creatively make all sort of products including chopped meat on sticks, meat samomas and minced meatballs. 

Boiled minced meat tucked in offals.

Traditional cuisine from the common staple ingredients are also in plenty are this  season not forgetting delicious traditional beverages like porridge made from finger millet or fermented sifted sorghum flour. As a matter of fact, some cafes’ in the town are exclusively serving traditional diets.

A variety of fruits.

To the local farmers, the season brings a good market tide as everyone shop for fresh produce either from the markets or directly from the farms. 

The Giraffe Ark

 By Joe Kanyi