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Accolades in Zanzibar
Stone Town is the clearest place for structured dining in our guide, with rooftop service and a tasting menu leading the way.
Emerson Spice is a rooftop restaurant in Stone Town. The cuisine is a Zanzibari seafood tasting menu, and the format is a tasting menu. The wine programme is curated. Craft cocktails are on the drinks list.
Emerson on Hurumzi is a Stone Town boutique hotel holding Michelin Selected status for 2025. It occupies a merchant mansion from the 19th century, restored for hotel use. The architecture is carved and Zanzibari, and the dining format is rooftop.
A Stone Town boutique hotel in a historic building, restored with modern luxury and bespoke service. It sits in Stone Town, steps from the sea and the old Arab quarter.
Kendwa holds all three picks here, with a beachfront grill and two hotels set on the coast.
A Kendwa beach hotel with a private 300m beach and modern design shaped around Zanzibari culture. It carries Michelin Selected status, a La Liste Top Hotels score of 91 points in 2026, and Design Hotels member status.
Bahari Grill & Bar is the beachfront seafood grill and bar at Zuri Zanzibar in Kendwa. Lunches are casual and dinners include BBQ, with drinks served on the sand. The format is a la carte. The wine programme is standard.
Kilindi Zanzibar is an Elewana Collection resort in Kendwa, with 15 pavilion suites and dedicated butler service. The suites are minimalist domes on a white-sand beach, drawing on Scandinavian and Middle Eastern design. The grounds are coastal gardens covering 50 acres, and the resort was built for ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson. The 2025 Travel + Leisure 100 Favorite Hotels in the World rank is #5, at 99.5 points.
Stone Town and Kendwa matter most, with 5 top listings each in our guide. Stone Town is where the tasting menu and the most specific wine detail appear, while Kendwa holds the main beachfront grill and several of the island’s coastal hotels.
The citywide count of Michelin-starred restaurants for Zanzibar in our guide is 0. The citywide total of Michelin stars for Zanzibar in our guide is 0. Our guide has 8 restaurants citywide.
Stone Town and Kendwa are the main places for structured dining in our guide. Stone Town has Emerson Spice’s tasting menu and Emerson on Hurumzi, while Kendwa has Bahari Grill & Bar and the two hotels at the coast.
Emerson Spice in Stone Town has a curated wine programme and craft cocktails. Bahari Grill & Bar in Kendwa is a beachfront grill and bar at Zuri Zanzibar. It serves drinks with casual lunches and BBQ dinners, and the wine programme is standard.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Bahari Grill & Bar belongs to Zanzibar’s beachside dining circuit, where the pull is less formal restaurant culture than proximity to the Indian Ocean and the island’s daily supply of seafood, fruit, spice and charcoal cooking. In Kendwa, the setting matters: northern beaches draw travelers who want sunset, salt air and an unfussy meal anchored in coastal ingredients.
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Stone Town's Spice Trade, Served from a Rooftop Tharia Street in Kiponda is the kind of address that takes a few wrong turns to find. The lanes of Stone Town's oldest residential quarter narrow as they approach the seafront, and the facades here...
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A 12-banda private island resort roughly two miles off the Zanzibar coast, andBeyond Mnemba Island earned 90.5 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. Rebuilt in 2024 by the Fox Browne team with architect Jack Alexander, the property sits in a tier of Indian Ocean escapes where genuine seclusion, beach dining, and reef access are the entire proposition.
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Positioned at the northern tip of Zanzibar near Kendwa, Zuri Zanzibar trades resort scale for a village-like intimacy, with palm-shaded hammocks, a semi-private beach, and a 91-point placement on the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels list. Among Zanzibar's premium coastal properties, it occupies a quieter, design-conscious tier that prioritises atmosphere over amenity count.
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On Paje Beach along Zanzibar's south coast, Amani Boutique Hotel positions itself at the quieter, more design-conscious end of the island's accommodation spectrum. Hand-carved details and an orientation toward the Indian Ocean define the aesthetic, placing it firmly in the small-property, atmosphere-led tier that has grown alongside Zanzibar's reputation as a destination for considered travel rather than resort-scale tourism.
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Sea Cliff Resort & Spa Zanzibar occupies a clifftop position in Mangapwani, on the island's quieter northwestern coast, placing 120 rooms at a remove from Stone Town's traffic and the crowded southeast beach strip. The address trades proximity to the ferry terminal for open Indian Ocean exposure and access to a less-visited stretch of coastline — a trade-off that suits a particular kind of Zanzibar traveller well.
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TOA Hotel & Spa sits at Pongwe on Zanzibar's quieter northeastern shore, operating across 94 rooms at a scale that places it in a different tier from the island's intimate boutique properties. The hotel suits travellers who want resort facilities alongside Indian Ocean frontage, without relocating to the more trafficked stretches of the coast.
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A Michelin Selected property on Hurumzi Street in Stone Town, Emerson on Hurumzi occupies one of the oldest merchant houses in Zanzibar's UNESCO-listed historic core. The rooftop dining format, carved Zanzibari architecture, and position inside the medina's densest layer of Swahili-Arab heritage make it a reference point for understanding how Stone Town's accommodation scene has evolved around its built environment.
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A Michelin Selected property in the heart of Stone Town, Emerson Spice occupies a restored nineteenth-century merchant house on Kiponda street, where carved wooden architecture and rooftop dining place it firmly within Zanzibar's most historically grounded hospitality tier. The property draws travellers who want their accommodation to function as an entry point into the island's spice-trade past rather than a retreat from it.
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Kilindi Zanzibar is a 15-suite Elewana Collection property at Kendwa, built on 50 acres of coastal gardens for ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson. Each domed suite carries a private plunge pool and direct Indian Ocean views. The low-density format and design-led architecture place it at the quieter, more secluded end of the north-coast Zanzibar accommodation tier.
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Positioned at the southern tip of Zanzibar in Kizimkazi Dimbani, Kizikula is a Michelin Selected property for 2025, placing it among a small cohort of East African boutique stays recognised by the guide's hotels programme. The remoteness of its location shapes the entire experience, from the quality of the quiet to the nature of access, making it a considered choice rather than a convenient one.
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A Michelin Selected boutique resort on Kiwengwa's coral-fringed coastline, Mvuvi sits within Zanzibar's small tier of design-led properties where intimacy and setting discipline matter more than scale. The address places guests on the island's calmer northeast shore, removed from Stone Town's activity and oriented toward open water and quiet recovery.
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On Gizenga Street in Stone Town, Sharazad Wonders Boutique sits inside the architectural layering that defines Zanzibar's old city — carved doors, coral-stone walls, and a scale that larger resort properties cannot replicate. The property holds a 2025 Michelin Selected designation, placing it in a small peer group of Indian Ocean stays where design specificity and intimacy carry more weight than pool acreage.
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The Mora Zanzibar sits on the quieter northeastern coastline at Matemwe, a location that keeps it at a deliberate remove from the busier resort clusters along the west coast. A dual winner at the World Luxury Hotel Awards — Regional Winner for Luxury Beach Resort and Global Winner for Luxury All-Inclusive Resort — the property competes in the small tier of East African all-inclusive addresses where format and setting, not just amenity count, determine the experience.
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A Michelin Selected boutique hotel in the heart of Stone Town's Shangani district, The Neela occupies a historic Zanzibari house steps from the sea and the old Arab quarter. Among Stone Town's smaller independent properties, it positions itself in the design-led tier rather than the large international footprint category, offering proximity to the medina's coral-stone streets, carved doorways, and spice-trade heritage.
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On Zanzibar's southwest coast, The Residence Zanzibar spreads across 79 acres of tropical gardens where the Indian Ocean meets powder-white sand on the quieter Kizimkazi shoreline. A 2026 Star Wine List award signals a wine program positioned well above the island average. For travelers routing through Tanzania's lodge circuit, it represents the coastal anchor of a broader east African itinerary.
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A 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards winner in three categories — Luxury All-Inclusive, Luxury Beachfront, and Luxury Honeymoon Resort — TUI BLUE Bahari Zanzibar sits on the north-east coast at Pwani Mchangani, where the Indian Ocean stays calm through most of the year. The resort operates within TUI's BLUE brand tier, positioning it toward travellers who want structured all-inclusive ease with a beachfront address on one of East Africa's most visited islands.
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Upendo Beach Zanzibar sits on Michamvi Kae Road along the island's quieter east coast, earning MICHELIN Selected status in the 2025 hotels guide. The property occupies a niche shared by small-footprint beach stays that prioritise place over scale, trading the resort corridor for direct access to the Indian Ocean's tidal rhythms and the slower pace that defines this stretch of Zanzibar's coastline.
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