How many coffee shops are there in Harare?
Well, we are trying to answer that question as our quest to list all the restuarants, coffee shops and other great places to eat in Zimbabwe continues.
So far we have listed over a hundred restaurants all over the country. In the coming weeks, we are planning a visit to Bulawayo to talk to restaurant owners there and get as many of them listed on eatout.co.zw.
Oh yes, how many coffee shops in Harare? We don’t know yet, but here is a list of the ones we do know about.
Zim Restaurant Guide, Eatout.co.zw Implements Web Mapping Facility
Eatout.co.zw is a website where prospective restaurant clients can search for various restaurants across the country by cuisine, location or range. Restaurant owners also get to have a web presence.
Owned and run by Harvest International, the website is still in astringent testing and will be launched on the 13th of October this year.
According to the restaurant guide director Joseph Bunga, restaurant maps are made available on eatout.co.zw using google maps and GPS co-ordinates. Read more
Stop! Thief!
I hate thieves. There’s nothing like working hard to get something that you really want, valuing it with the sweat that it’s worth, and then having someone come along with the audacity to snatch it away from you with their grimy hands. No doubt we’ve all had a share of this experience at some point in our lives: our money, our property, our livelihoods – all stolen from out of our unsuspecting grasp. Unfortunately, I too have a recent example of an act of robbery against me to tell.
Just this Saturday, I was a victim of a theft I believe was induced by the sorry desperate state of our nation and its people. After an excruciatingly long week of hard toil at work, I decided to treat myself by buying a six-piece box of fried chicken from a popular take-away chain that recently slashed its once over-inflated prices.
“You’ve earned it,” I thought to myself, imagining how good the food would taste back home, once shared with family.
After the characteristically long wait in the take-away queue, I made my way through the Harare city streets, quite excited about my recent acquisition – it’s not everyday that people in Zimbabwe buy take-aways, you know! Wanting only to get home and feed my own hunger, I thought nothing of the voracious pairs of eyes I noticed lustfully undressing the maroon box in my hands. But, as I stood along a wide-tarred street, waiting for the traffic to thin out, my worst fear was realised. Noticing that my concentration was more on the road than anything else, a man in dirty clothes simply came up behind me, snatched my box of chicken, and then ran like his life depended on it. Read more
Your vocabulary can feed the hungry
What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at website called FreeRice it does. Go to the site, and you’ll see a word and four definitions. Choose the right meaning and the site’s advertisers will donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Program, a United Nations agency that is the world’s largest humanitarian organization. Keep on guessing (the quiz gets progressively more arduous, not to mention vexatious), and for each correct answer 10 more grains of rice will head to people who need it. Now, admittedly, 10 grains is a piddling amount. But the totals have grown exponentially. Over 56 billion grains of rice have been donated to date through this innovative program.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa
- Kubatana.net
Terror in a time of sadza
The story on NewZimbabwe.com two days ago about a woman on an Air Zimbabwe flight who almost beat up an air hostess when she felt it was sadza time had me laughing hard.
The not so funny side is that I don’t think that this woman realises that in an age such as this, her misdemeanour can be classified very easily as an act of terror and filed in the archives of history on the same pages as activities by Bin Laden and company. Read more
Remove the outside, cook the inside
Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside. Read more
