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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Mozambique in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Mozambique
In Maputo, Radisson Blu Hotel, Maputo on Avenida Marginal holds an extensive wine list. Korean Restaurant on Av. 24 de Julho serves authentic Korean cooking, and Spicy Thai Restaurant Maputo in BICA serves authentic Thai cuisine in buffet and a la carte formats.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Maputo has an extensive wine list on Avenida Marginal. Filini focuses on Italian cooking, while Azul serves international food with Mozambican influences. The dining offer includes a la carte service, craft cocktails and views over the Indian Ocean.
On Av. 24 de Julho, Korean Restaurant brings authentic Korean cooking into a city dining scene shaped by Portuguese, Indian and East African traditions. Dishes include kimchi, bulgogi, glass noodles and spicy pork. The format is a la carte and the wine program is standard.
In BICA, Spicy Thai Restaurant Maputo serves authentic Thai cuisine in buffet and a la carte formats. It is an all-you-can-eat buffet frequented by expats and young Mozambicans, with a minimal wine program.
Benguerra Island is the clearest island cluster in the guide, with beach dining and award-backed hotels shaping the table.
On Benguerra Island, Baracca serves Mozambican food in a barefoot beachfront setting with sunset cocktails and local seafood. The minimal wine program and a la carte format fit an island dining style built around the coast.
Kisawa Sanctuary on Benguerra Island holds Michelin 2 Keys for 2026. The resort has eleven private residences with individual kitchens and infinity pools. Each residence also has a beach for private use, with butlers serving guests.
andBeyond Benguerra Island has 15 rooms on Benguerra Island and a La Liste Top Hotels score of 91 points for 2026. At this beachfront lodge, guests have individual plunge pools and butlers. The bar's design draws on dhows, with indigenous forest and coral reefs surrounding the property.
The archipelago side of the guide leans toward resort dining and island stays, with the marine setting carrying much of the context.
On Bazaruto Island, Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort has luxury villas in the Bazaruto Archipelago, inside a protected marine national park, with diving and snorkeling. It is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner for 2026.
In the Pemba Beach Hotel area, Clube Naval is a seaside seafood and European restaurant with a marine-life setting and a la carte service. It holds the World Culinary Awards Mozambique's Best Hotel Restaurant 2025 #1 award.
Azura Benguerra Island on Benguerra Island holds a La Liste Top Hotels score of 90 points for 2026. Local residents built the resort by hand. Its villas have individual plunge pools, and a Mozambican host looks after each villa. It won Mozambique’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa at the World Travel Awards in 2025.
Restaurante Chikalango in Chitengo serves international cuisine inside a Gorongosa National Park lodge. Sussurro is a boutique hotel on a turquoise lagoon on the Nhamabue Peninsula, and Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Maputo is a beachfront hotel on Avenida Marginal.
In Chitengo, Restaurante Chikalango serves international cuisine inside a Gorongosa National Park lodge at Chitengo Camp, with garden views near safari experiences. The format is a la carte and the wine program is standard.
On the Nhamabue Peninsula, Sussurro is a solar-powered boutique hotel on a turquoise lagoon, with a zero-plastic commitment and handcrafted African furnishings, built from local materials. It holds a Conde Nast Gold List recognition for 2026.
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Maputo on Avenida Marginal won the World Luxury Hotel Awards regional award for Luxury Conference & Event Hotel and continent award for Luxury Business Hotel in 2025. The property overlooks the ocean from the beachfront and has an infinity pool. Its residences include fireplaces and pools for private use.
Maputo has the strongest dining cluster in Mozambique. In our guide it holds 5 EPC venues, including hotel restaurants with extensive wine service, plus Korean and Thai rooms that widen the city’s range.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Maputo, on Avenida Marginal, is the restaurant in our guide with an extensive wine list, plus craft cocktails, and the format is a la carte.
Mozambique has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Kisawa Sanctuary on Benguerra Island holds Michelin 2 Keys for 2026, a hotel award. Its eleven private residences have individual kitchens, infinity pools and beaches for private use.
Awarded places on this page are Clube Naval with the World Culinary Awards Mozambique’s Best Hotel Restaurant 2025 #1 award, Kisawa Sanctuary, andBeyond Benguerra Island, Azura Benguerra Island, Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort, Sussurro and Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence, Maputo.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Mozambique
Selected entries from the current guide for Mozambique.
Vilanculos, Mozambique
Clube Naval sits on Ilha do Bazaruto, placing it inside the food culture of the Bazaruto Archipelago rather than the mainland dining circuit of Vilanculos. With no public awards, chef credit, cuisine label, or price range attached, its appeal is best understood through setting and sourcing: island dining where the Indian Ocean is the reference point.
Benguerra Island, Mozambique
Baracca fits Benguerra Island’s beach-dining grammar: informal, coastal, and shaped by proximity to the Bazaruto Archipelago’s fishing culture rather than by urban restaurant ceremony. The draw is the setting and the ingredient logic, with seafood and island produce carrying more weight than chef biography or award theatre.
Maputo, Mozambique
Open Flame on the Marginal Along Avenida de Marginal, Maputo's seafront boulevard where the Indian Ocean breeze cuts across the road and salt sits in the air, the smell of charcoal reaches you before the building does. BBQ House occupies a...
Maputo, Mozambique
One of Maputo's few addresses bringing Korean cuisine to the Mozambican capital, Korean Restaurant sits on Avenida 24 de Julho in the heart of the city. In a dining scene shaped by Portuguese, Indian, and East African traditions, its presence signals a slow but steady diversification of the city's restaurant options. Details on pricing and hours are best confirmed on arrival or through local inquiry.
Maputo, Mozambique
On Maputo's Avenida da Marginal, the Radisson Blu sits where the Indian Ocean shapes both the view and the plate. The hotel occupies a position in the city's mid-to-upper accommodation tier, drawing on Mozambique's coastal larder, prawns from the Bazaruto channel, peri-peri from local markets, to anchor its dining offer within the broader southern African seafood tradition.
Parque Nacional De Gorongosa, Mozambique
Restaurante Chikalango sits inside Chitengo Camp within Gorongosa National Park, one of Africa's most ambitious wildlife restoration projects. Dining here places you inside the park's broader story of ecological recovery, with sourcing shaped by the landscape surrounding the table. It is a rare case where the restaurant's context does more editorial work than any single dish.
Maputo, Mozambique
On Avenida Julius Nyerere, Maputo's main diplomatic corridor, Spicy Thai Restaurant occupies a niche that few restaurants in Mozambique's capital attempt: Southeast Asian cooking in a city whose dining identity is built on piri-piri seafood and Portuguese-inflected grills. For travelers moving between the Indian Ocean coast and the city center, it represents one of the few places to step outside the local idiom entirely.
Mozambique
Selected entries from the current guide for Mozambique.
Benguerra Island, Mozambique
Kisawa Sanctuary occupies Benguerra Island in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago, a marine reserve of shallow turquoise channels and dune-backed beaches largely untouched by mass tourism. Eleven private residences, each with its own kitchen and infinity pool, operate at roughly $6,200 per night. The property competes in a global tier of ultra-low-density wilderness retreats, placing guest autonomy and ecological commitment above conventional resort programming.
Benguerra Island, Mozambique
andBeyond Benguerra Island is a 15-room private island lodge in the Bazaruto Archipelago, recognised on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels list with 91 points. The property operates at the quieter, more intimate end of Mozambican island hospitality, where low density and Indian Ocean access define the stay rather than amenity scale.
Benguerra Island, Mozambique
Azura Benguerra Island occupies one of the Bazaruto Archipelago's most secluded stretches of coast, recognised in the La Liste Top Hotels 2026 ranking with 90 points and home to the World Travel Awards 2025 winner for Mozambique's Leading Luxury Hotel Villa. The property operates at the smaller, villa-led end of the Indian Ocean luxury spectrum, where low guest counts and access to marine-protected waters define the category.
Vilanculos, Mozambique
Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort sits within the Bazaruto Archipelago, a protected marine national park 30 kilometres off the Mozambique mainland. Rolling sand dunes frame a stretch of Indian Ocean where dolphin encounters and humpback whale migrations are seasonal calendar events rather than rare sightings. For travellers choosing between the archipelago's small number of island properties, this is the reference point against which others are measured.
Maputo, Mozambique
On Maputo's Marginal seafront, the Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence holds two World Luxury Hotel Award wins, Regional Winner for Luxury Conference & Event Hotel and Continent Winner for Luxury Business Hotel, placing it at the functional apex of the city's formal accommodation tier. For delegates, extended-stay executives, and travellers who need a property that operates at the pace of international business, this is the address that Maputo's corporate circuit runs through.
Nhamabue, Mozambique
Sussurro occupies a secluded position on a turquoise lagoon in Nhamabue, Mozambique, built from local materials with a minimalist design logic that keeps the structure in deliberate conversation with its surroundings. The property's commitment to sustainability and community integration places it within a small cohort of boutique hotels on the Mozambican coast that treat environmental and social accountability as design principles, not afterthoughts.
Mozambique
Selected entries from the current guide for Mozambique.
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Mozambique
Selected entries from the current guide for Mozambique.
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