Everything they serve is either hot or cold smoked trout!
We spent a night in Nanyuki, in order to write a good review of the Trout Tree Restaurant, Nanyuki, in the Mount Kenya area of Kenya.
The Trout Tree is a world away. A stunning tree house built above a river and a series of trout tanks, set off the well trodden route and definitely worth a visit.
Service is fast and the food, although straightforward was toothsome. The menu was limited in that everything they serve is cold or hot smoked trout, trout chowder or trout slices.
The cold smoked trout is presented with savory horseradish sauce and the trout slices have a hot sauce. Griddled Trout was my choice on the main courses - the trout comes fresh from the ponds below the fish was very well cooked and really fresh.
Whilst we were at the Trout Tree Bistro, the gift shop staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The employees at Trout Tree were adamant that we made a trip to the vast art studio, as it displays cost-effective contemporary art from East Africa's top contemporary artists, away from the hustle and bustle of town life.
You can opt to either soak up the atmosphere of this unruffled and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art faculties in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long term placements at the arts center, manufacturing and showing new cost-effective art works.
This new art studio in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, while allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.
We also enjoyed a good lunch on a deck, overlooking a massive lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pool!
What we found superb is that the equator slices clean through the middle of this Arts Centre. This suggests that you can view provoking African art in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere!
This new Arts Centre in Nanyuki, has just installed a new equator sculpture, the Wish World, which is installed precisely at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The arts centre has a singular shop stocked with hand- made African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and a lot more unusual African gift ideas. That was most of our vacation money gone!
Trout Tree Nanyuki and the Lily Pond Arts Centre offers inspiring contemporary African art, gifts and healthy lunches. Find out today, what the Trout Tree Restaurant Nanyuki offers in Nanyuki, the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.
Category: African Art