Eatingout: Dining at Ibuhoro snack Patissrie and Restaurant

Ibuhoro snack Patisserie and Restaurant is located along Avenue de Travel Nateus on the way to Nyamirambo from Kigali city centre. It’s one of the restaurants in the city that offer a variety of traditional local foodstuffs. The restaurant is definitely not a boring place to visit. Its eating room is sheltered in a milieu covered with musical melodies from Rwandan and Ugandan artists; sometimes coming from a television set that offers an optical nutrition break to business people. Ibuhoro snack Patisserie and Restaurant has a casual elegance with impeccably prepared plates of local and modernized cuisine. Theres little room of pretence regarding their extensive menu; they manage and maintain moderate prices while using high quality natural ingredients. It’s indeed an ideal place for people who desire an adventurous meal. The proprietor, who is at his retirement age, looks kind enough and friendly, so much that he gives maximum care to the patrons who turn up to dine at the restaurant. The menu Break fast: African tea and coffee, sometimes served with milk. It is either accompanied with a mixture of banana (Gatogo) served with meat and portage (Vegetables), toast bread, meat samosas, special omelette and other omelette types like Spanish and Jambo seasoned with onions and tomatoes. Lunch Starters: Soup comes in various forms of vegetable, carrot, spinach, chicken and mushroom. Buffet: This is served with chips and salads, fried sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkin and boiled Irish potatoes. Rice comes in three types: Pillawo, Rice with tomatoes and green pepper and rice mixed with carrots. Fried banana is served with greens, tomatoes, carrots, onion and green pepper. Boiled and fried cassava is also served mixed with beans. Sauce (Imboga): Fried beans are seasoned with greens, egg plant, carrots, green pepper and onions. Also served is fried and boiled beef, chicken, brochette, zingaro (offal’s), fresh fish and ground nuts (with and without eggplant). On Mondays and Thursdays of the week, the restaurant serves Ibirungi; one of the most delicious traditional dishes many Rwandans will never dine without. Vegetables: Vegetarians will not go away unattended to. Vegetables come in form of sliced cabbages, tomatoes, fresh carrots, Isombe (Cassava leaves prepared with beef and ground nuts), dodo and avocado spiced with mayonnaise. Desserts: Yellow banana, apples, pineapples, pan cake, passion fruit, oranges and lemon. The bar Beers: Primus, Amstel, Mutzing, Bavaria, Heineken, Carlsberg, Guinness, Pilsner, Red bull, Tusker, Tarama, Mbanza and Bell lager. Ikivuguto is among the soft drinks served on top of sodas, passion fruit juice and orange juice. The staff: Well gender-balanced, experienced and enthusiastic; they will not spare a minute before attending to you. According to the proprietor, the restaurant’s motto runs, “Quality is all that matters not how much you eat.” The staffs take their time to meet the clientele’s demands according to the promise of value from their motto. The crowd and talk: Basically Rwandans, especially business people, regularly flock the restaurant to dine as they discuss the nature and future of their businesses. The prices: They are affordable by almost every average business person. The buffet goes for as low as Frw800; beverages like soft drinks served at Frw100 and Frw200, and beers served at Frw400 and Frw800 only. WCs: The Water Closets are the old flashy types but indeed very clean to meet proper hygienic standards required from public places. Comment from the manager/proprietor: “We always strive to offer the best traditional dishes prepared by our extremely respected chefs with a wide experience in cookery.” Ends