Dieuveil Malonga is Back! Chef’s Table Dinner, Apr. 11-12 2018 @ Jiko – the Tribe Hotel

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Discover Chef Dieuveil Malonga’s Afrofusion Cuisine with a special chef’s table dinner experience at Jiko, Tribe Hotel next week.

Dates: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 and Thursday, April 12, 2018
Venue: Jiko, Tribe Hotel Kenya
Time: 7:30pm – Cocktails, 8:00pm – Dinner
Cost: Just Dinner: KES 12,000/- per person, and Dinner With Wine Pairing: KES 15,000/- per person
Lipa na Mpesa available: Till number – 716994

Contact: +254 732 186 000 | +254 20 720 0601
RSVP: marketingdept@tribehotel-kenya.com

Limited seats available

La Belle Époque (Under Famous French Chef Christian Caldara) brings out South Western French Cuisine for Goût de France, Mar. 21 2018 at Alliance Française

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La Belle Epoque Restaurant a the French Cultural Center
Located inside the Alliance Française, La Belle Époque restaurant is a cosy French restaurant and one of the five restaurants taking part in Goût de France today (March 21, 2018).

Run by Christian Caldera, a famous French Chef, who first came to Kenya in 1974 just before he clocked 18 years. Christian’s first big break was servicing the newly built Gigiri UN Complex – which at that time needed a Chef to cater for the high profile guests that would be streaming in the country for meetings – there. He has been in the restaurant business ever since – which has seen him become the first Chef to set shop at the French Cultural Centre in Nairobi, operating a restaurant there from 1977 to 1991and later partnering up with Alan Bobbe of Alan Bobbe’s Bistro at Koinange Street.

For the Good France dinner, Chef Christian will be serving a one off dinner meal made up of three courses inspired by the South Western region of France.

Chef Christian Caldara during the interview at the Alliance Française Nairobi

According to Caldera, cooking is a philosophy that requires precision and value. He believes that the visual presentation of any food should not come before its quality. It is why he loves using the products in Kenya as they are high quality and fresh.

“I am extremely picky about what I work with, and Kenya has extremely good products that are not easily available in other markets,” the self-taught chef said.

He also believes that to be a world-class chef, you need to combine good product with good technique that is not only refined but finessed. The third thing would be to teach others about the process itself and being kind.

For today’s event, the guests will have a choice of rillettes de canard (duck rillette) or salade de gesiersconfit (gizzard confit salad) for the starter.

The chef prepares the rillettes de canard by chopping the duck and slow cooking it in fat until tender. The next step is to shred the duck and to cool it with fat to create a paste. The paste is then spread on bread.

The gizzard salad is also prepared in duck fat and served with mixed greens.
The main dish will be a choice between Confit de canned (preserved duck) and entrecote bordelaise (steak bordelaise).

For dessert, guests will have a choice of Crème Brulee and tourte sucrée de pruneaux, flambée à l’armagnac (Sweet pie with prunes and Armagnac) served in a pipe.

There will be an assortment of wine from South Western region of France to accompany the meal.

Location: La Belle Époque, Alliance Française
Time: 7pm onwards
Cost: KES 2500 (exclusive of wines)

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Dinner | Show | Raffle: in Aid of TNR Trust with Performances by Sitawa Namwalie & Aleya Kassam, Sept. 30 2017 @ the Tribe – Village Market

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The Trap Neuter Release (TNR) Trust will host an event to raise funds for the Trust’s new Mobile Clinic. There will be dinner and a show by the highly acclaimed Sitawa Namwalie and Aleya Kassam and a raffle.

Date: September 30, 2017
Venue: the Tribe Hotel, Village Market, Nairobi
Time: 6 pm
Tickets: KES 7,000/- (inclusive of welcome drink, dinner and show) | Raffle tickets at KES 200 on sale now through e-mail on; tnrtrustnairobi@gmail.com

NOTE: 6 pm welcome drink; 7:15pm show and dinner. Dress Code; Beautiful.

About
TNR Trust, a registered Trust in Kenya, was established in 2015 following growing concerns over the stray dog and cat population in regards to animal welfare, disease control and population management.

The Trust aims to combine education on rabies and animal welfare with affordable rabies vaccinations and spay/neutering. This will curb the burgeoning dog and cat population and reduce the spread of the fatal disease rabies. This will, in turn, reduce the human mortality rate and improve community health.

Sitawa Namwalie is exploring the many ways of telling stories. She is a poet, playwright and performer. She wrote “Cut off My Tongue” (2008), “Homecoming” (2011), and “Silence is a Woman” (2014) which won Kenya’s Sanaa Theatre Awards Best Spoken Word and Poetry in the same year. Her second play “Room of Lost Names” has been performed to critical and popular acclaim at the Kampala International Theatre Festival and Ubumuntu Arts Festival Kigali.

Aleya Kassam is a Kenyan reader, writer and performer. She has been published in Jalada, Mail and Guardian Africa. She blogs her musings at www.chanyado.wordpress.com, which was nominated for Best New Blog at the Blog Awards Kenya 2015. She has performed in ‘Stories from the Mall: A Westgate Memorial’, and acclaimed shows ‘Silence is a Woman’ and ‘Cut off my Tongue’ amongst others.

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