Okavango Delta, Botswana
Duba Plains Camp Restaurant
Duba Plains Camp Restaurant is in the Okavango Delta. Smart casual dress is noted for guests.
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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Botswana in the En Primeur Club guide.
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Botswana's dining scene in our guide is built around safari lodges, with 27 venues across 8 cities. The Okavango Delta holds the largest share, with 11 venues in our guide. Duba Plains Camp Restaurant combines tasting menus and à la carte dining with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant offers traditional Botswana-inspired cooking and a wine list.
Remote camp dining also includes Great Plains Selinda, with tasting menus, à la carte service and an extensive wine list. Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant serves in-house safari guests and offers tasting menus, set menus and à la carte meals alongside a wine list. In Linyanti, Boma offers à la carte camp dining behind the main pavilion. Boma in Savute, Chobe National Park pairs traditional African dishes with an extensive wine list, while Zambezi Queen brings a floating hotel format to the Chobe River.
Okavango Delta dining and lodge stays
The Okavango Delta holds the largest share of venues in our Botswana guide. Its camp restaurants include wine programs, with tasting menus and traditional Botswana-inspired cooking.
Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant
An ultra-private fine-dining room in the Okavango Delta with an extensive wine list. It offers à la carte and set menu service, with traditional Botswana-inspired cooking tailored to guests and served on a floating terrace or in lodge seclusion.
Duba Plains Camp Restaurant
This Okavango Delta camp restaurant offers fine-dining safari cuisine with an exceptional wine program. Its drinks setup includes an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service, while the menu runs as tasting menu or à la carte in an intimate camp overlooking the floodplains.
andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge
A lodge in the Okavango Delta with architecture inspired by a pangolin and private plunge pools in every suite. It has 12 rooms and was named Botswana's Leading Luxury Safari Lodge at the 2025 World Travel Awards.
Selinda Reserve and Linyanti camp dining
Great Plains Selinda and Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant offer tasting menus and wine lists. Boma in Linyanti serves à la carte meals in a safari-camp setting.
Great Plains Selinda
A remote Relais & Châteaux restaurant with an extensive wine list. The kitchen offers tasting menu and à la carte formats, and the experience sits in luxury tented camp dining with floodplain views from raised decks.
Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant
This bush restaurant works for in-house safari guests, with an extensive wine list. It offers tasting menu, set menu, and à la carte service, and the food program is tied to the kitchens at Selinda Camp and Zarafa Camp.
Boma
A safari-camp boma in Linyanti with à la carte dining. The meal is served in a bush setting behind the main pavilion, and the format belongs to the camp dining tradition of fire-lit evening meals.
Chobe River and Chobe National Park stays
Chobe brings river and park dining into the picture, with one floating hotel and camp meals that stay close to the wildlife setting.
Zambezi Queen
A 42-metre luxury floating boutique hotel on the Chobe River with Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner recognition in 2026. Fourteen suites combine private balconies with river views, and the slow movement of the houseboat defines how the stay unfolds.
andBeyond Chobe Under Canvas
A semi-permanent tented camp inside Chobe National Park with six tented suites and private butler service. The camp offers game drives and photographic boat safaris, combining a small accommodation footprint with wildlife activities.
Boma
An open-air boma at Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge in Savute, Chobe National Park. It offers traditional African dishes, an extensive wine list, with à la carte or set menu service in a wildlife setting.
Moremi Game Reserve and Linyanti lodge stays
Xigera Safari Lodge combines African art with solar-powered operations, while Tawana offers an unfenced camp setting. Wilderness DumaTau adds tented suites with private plunge pools to these lodge picks.
Xigera Safari Lodge
A regenerative luxury lodge with Michelin Selected status and Michelin 2 Keys in 2026. Its individually designed suites sit within a solar-powered structure, with over 80 commissioned African artworks and a hotel experience built around art and conservation.
Tawana
An unfenced luxury safari camp on the Gomoti River. The lodge pairs contemporary design with floodplain-forest rhythms and private plunge pools in suites, giving the stay a close connection to the water channels and wildlife.
Wilderness DumaTau
An ultra-luxury tented camp ranked #2 on Condé Nast's Best Resorts list for 2025. It is positioned near elephant corridors and Osprey Lagoon, with private plunge pools in each suite.
Planning FAQ
Which part of Botswana has the strongest wine-led dining scene?
The Okavango Delta has the broadest concentration of wine-led dining in our guide. It holds 11 EPC venues, including Duba Plains Camp Restaurant with an exceptional wine program and Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant with a wine list.
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Botswana in your guide?
Botswana has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Xigera Safari Lodge in Moremi Game Reserve, NG28 holds hotel recognition from Michelin: Michelin Selected status in 2025 and two Michelin Keys in 2026.
Where should I look for tasting menus?
Great Plains Selinda, Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant and Duba Plains Camp Restaurant offer tasting menus. All also serve à la carte meals, while Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant additionally offers set menu service for in-house safari guests.
Which restaurants on this page hold Relais & Châteaux awards?
Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant, Great Plains Selinda, Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant and Duba Plains Camp Restaurant hold Relais & Châteaux awards. Great Plains Selinda's award dates to 2025; the other restaurants hold awards dated 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Botswana
Where to eat in Botswana
Selected entries from the current guide for Botswana.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Selinda Reserve, Botswana
Great Plains Selinda
Set along the Zibadianja Lagoon in Botswana's remote Selinda Reserve, Great Plains Selinda places guests inside one of southern Africa's most wildlife-dense corridors. Large canvas suites sit at the water's edge, and the camp is particularly noted for leopard activity in the surrounding area.
Selinda Reserve, Botswana
Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant
Safari dining in the Selinda Reserve works differently from city restaurant culture: access, rhythm, and appetite are shaped by the day’s game drives. Selinda Camp | Zarafa Camp Restaurant belongs to that lodge-led category, with Chef Matshidiso Ngoreng at Selinda Camp and Herold Gaosikilwe at Zarafa Camp giving the food program a grounded kitchen identity rather than a generic camp-catering feel.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant
In the Okavango Delta, private-island dining works less like a restaurant reservation and more like part of the safari rhythm: water, heat, birdsong, and a kitchen shaped around the day’s pace. Sitatunga Private Island dining room Restaurant sits in that lodge-dining category, with Chef Kedidimetse Gabasaleteng preparing traditional cuisine, à la carte meals, or personalized five-course menus using local farm produce.
Linyanti, Botswana
Boma
Boma belongs to the safari-camp dining tradition of Linyanti, where the meal is shaped as much by fire, night air, and camp rhythm as by the plate. Its position behind the main pavilion gives it a different register from deck or poolside formats: less about restaurant ceremony, more about the communal grammar of a bush dinner.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Boma
Boma sits in the Okavango Delta’s safari-dining tradition, where setting and supply chain shape the meal as much as the kitchen. The draw is not a formal restaurant script but a Delta format: midday by water or in a traditional boma, with food framed by remoteness, season, and the practical intelligence of cooking far from an urban market.
Chobe National Park, Botswana
Boma
Boma fits the safari-dining rhythm of Chobe National Park: outdoor-minded, place-led, and better understood through Botswana’s lodge culture than through city restaurant categories. The useful question is not whether it behaves like a formal destination restaurant, but how convincingly it connects the meal to the park’s wider sense of season, fire, and local supply.
Botswana
Where to stay in Botswana
Selected entries from the current guide for Botswana.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge
andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge sits within one of Africa's most biodiverse water systems, operating at just 12 rooms to keep guest numbers low and wildlife access high. Named Botswana's Leading Luxury Safari Lodge at the 2025 World Travel Awards, it occupies a position at the architecture-forward end of the Okavango's premium lodge tier, where design and ecological integration are as much the product as the game viewing itself.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Duba Plains Camp
Named Botswana's Leading Tented Safari Camp at the 2025 World Travel Awards, Duba Plains Camp occupies a private concession in the Okavango Delta where the floodplains attract some of southern Africa's densest lion and buffalo concentrations. The address is the argument: a remote island ecosystem accessible only by light aircraft, with no neighbouring properties sharing the wildlife corridor.
Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Sanctuary Chief's Camp
Sanctuary Chief's Camp sits inside the Moremi Game Reserve, one of Botswana's most wildlife-dense protected areas, and has earned recognition from both La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 (90.5 points) and the World Travel Awards as Botswana's Leading Safari Lodge 2025. The camp pairs close-proximity game access with a structured all-inclusive format, meals, drives, and guiding folded into a single stay price, making it a reference point for the Okavango-region lodge tier.
Chobe National Park, Botswana
andBeyond Chobe Under Canvas
andBeyond Chobe Under Canvas places six tented suites directly inside Chobe National Park, where the Chobe River corridor draws some of Africa's densest elephant concentrations. The camp sits at the small-capacity end of the Botswana safari spectrum, prioritising proximity to wildlife over resort-scale infrastructure. Access is through Ngoma Gate, positioning guests close to both the floodplain and the park's interior game-viewing circuits.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
andBeyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp
A nine-tent camp on the private Pom Pom Concession (NG 27A) in the Okavango Delta, andBeyond Nxabega operates within one of Botswana's most carefully managed wildlife areas. The small-footprint format keeps guest numbers low relative to the surrounding wilderness, and the camp's placement inside a dedicated concession means game drives run without the interference of competing vehicles.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
andBeyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp
andBeyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp occupies a nine-room footprint inside one of Botswana's most water-rich wildlife concessions, where seasonal flooding shapes both the terrain and the daily rhythm of camp life. Access is by light aircraft, and the small capacity keeps the experience at a scale where guided activities and communal dining remain genuinely personal rather than operationally managed.
Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Xigera Safari Lodge
Set within the Moremi Game Reserve at address NG 28, Xigera Safari Lodge operates twelve individually designed suites across a solar-powered structure conceived as both a conservation statement and a celebration of African art. The design program places it in a distinct tier among Okavango Delta properties: low-capacity, art-forward, and built around local materials and creative talent rather than international hotel convention.
Maun, Botswana
Belmond Safaris
Two lodges, two distinct ecosystems, one coherent argument for Northern Botswana as Africa's most architecturally considered safari destination. Eagle Island Lodge channels a colonial explorer's camp translated into contemporary form, while Savute Elephant Lodge has been relaunched with a design-forward eco-sensitive brief. Together they make a case for Belmond's approach to wilderness hospitality that goes well beyond standard luxury tenting.
Selinda Reserve, Botswana
Great Plains Selinda
Great Plains Selinda belongs to Botswana’s low-density safari tradition, where design is measured by restraint rather than spectacle. In the private Selinda Reserve, between the Okavango Delta and the Linyanti-Savute systems, the experience is defined by canvas architecture, ecological intent, and access to a wildlife corridor known for lions, wild dogs, elephants, hippos, and lagoon country.
Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana
Jack's Camp
Jack's Camp occupies a singular position in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans: a nine-tent camp that rebuilt itself in 2021 around the theatrical logic of a 1940s expedition base, with 270-square-metre canvas suites, Natural History Museum-style display cabinets, and private plunge pools on every veranda. Operated by Natural Selection, it sets the reference point for design-led safari camps in one of Botswana's most geologically dramatic environments.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Little Mombo Camp
Little Mombo Camp sits on one of the Okavango Delta's most wildlife-rich private concessions, placing guests inside a floodplain ecosystem that few safari destinations in southern Africa can match for density and diversity. Recognized by La Liste's Top Hotels ranking with 90.5 points in 2026, the camp positions itself in the small-capacity, high-exclusivity tier of Botswana's premium safari circuit.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Moremi Game Reserve
Moremi Game Reserve sits inside one of Africa's most biodiverse wetland systems, where the Okavango Delta's seasonal floods shape both the terrain and the rhythms of wildlife movement. Recognised by La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking with a score of 90.5 points, the reserve operates as the benchmark against which other Botswana safari destinations measure themselves. Access is by light aircraft, and camps within its boundaries book months in advance.
Chobe National Park, Botswana
Savute Elephant Lodge, A Belmond Safari, Botswana
Savute Elephant Lodge sits inside Chobe National Park, one of Africa's most concentrated wildlife corridors, carrying Belmond's flag into genuinely remote terrain. Recognised by La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking with a score of 91.5 points, it positions itself in the specialist tier of African safari lodges where dining, setting, and natural drama operate in close alignment.
Maun, Botswana
Selinda Camp
Selinda Camp occupies a ten-suite footprint along a tree-lined waterway inside Botswana's 320,000-acre Selinda Reserve, rated 4.9/5 by EP Club members. Access is by private airstrip, 45 minutes from Maun, and the all-inclusive program spans twice-daily game drives, mokoro excursions, and a culinary program grounded in contemporary African cooking with locally sourced ingredients.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Sitatunga Private Island
A private-island camp in the heart of the Okavango Delta, Sitatunga Private Island trades scale for intimacy, with ecodesigned accommodation, direct river access, and an emphasis on low-impact wildlife encounters. Access is by light aircraft into Maun International Airport, placing it firmly within the Delta's specialist, low-volume safari tier.
Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Tawana
Tawana sits along the Gomoti River in Moremi Game Reserve, one of the Okavango Delta's most wildlife-dense corridors. The camp pairs contemporary design with the rhythms of the surrounding floodplain forest, positioning it among Botswana's more considered safari addresses for travellers who want close proximity to the Delta's permanent water channels and the game they sustain.
Linyanti, Botswana
Wilderness DumaTau
Ranked #2 on Condé Nast's Best Resorts list for 2025, Wilderness DumaTau occupies among the more wildlife-dense corridors in Botswana's Linyanti region. The camp's architecture works with the floodplain terrain rather than against it, placing guests at close range with elephant, wild dog, and lion in a concession that few operators access. For the Linyanti, this is the reference property.
Linyanti, Botswana
Wilderness King's Pool Camp
Wilderness King's Pool Camp sits in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve on the northern edge of Botswana, positioned along the seasonal floodplains of the King's Pool lagoon. Recognised in La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 with 90.5 points, it operates within Wilderness Safaris' high-end concession model, offering a controlled-access wilderness experience at the upper tier of Botswana safari accommodation.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Xugana Island Lodge
Reachable only by boat through papyrus-fringed channels in the Okavango Delta's northwestern panhandle, Xugana Island Lodge completed a full rebuild in 2025. The redesigned property now offers 12 spacious suites under thatched roofs, a lagoon-facing firepit, and a bar stocked with locally distilled Okavango gin. Doubles start from $1,380 per night.
Chobe River, Botswana
Zambezi Queen
A 42-metre luxury houseboat navigating 25 kilometres of Botswana's Chobe River, Zambezi Queen operates at the intersection of remote wilderness access and considered interior design. Fourteen suites, ten standard, four master, combine private balconies with unobstructed elephant-country sightlines across one of Africa's most densely populated wildlife corridors. It is the format that defines the experience: slow, deliberate river movement as the itinerary itself.
Botswana
Where to go for a drink in Botswana
Selected entries from the current guide for Botswana.
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Botswana
Which wineries to visit in Botswana
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