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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Tanzania in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Tanzania
Zanzibar holds the deepest coastal dining cluster in our guide, especially in Paje and along the southeast coast, where seafood, tasting menus and wine lists appear most often.
Doors to Zanzibar is a fine-dining restaurant in Paje, inside Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa. The kitchen cooks contemporary Zanzibari seafood, with à la carte and set menu formats, and the wine program is standard. Chef Lily Wong uses catch from local dhow fishermen, and beer is poured alongside the wine. The restaurant holds a Relais Chateaux Award from 2025.
Beach Restaurant & Bar in Paje serves grilled local seafood, meat, vegetarian plates and salads by the beach at Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa. It is a relaxed bistro. The cooking uses the Indian Ocean and the island’s produce. It holds a Relais Chateaux Award from 2026.
Doors to Zanzibar Restaurant is a fine-dining restaurant in Paje, within a Relais & Châteaux beach resort. Chef Emmanuel Mruma cooks international and African fusion specials, with an à la carte breakfast-and-dinner format and a tasting menu. The room has a mother-of-pearl chandelier, and the kitchen uses garden-to-table sourcing and Zanzibari ingredients. It holds a Relais Chateaux Award from 2026.
The Rock Restaurant Zanzibar sits on a coral rock in the Indian Ocean, in Michamvi Pingwe, with access on foot at low tide or by boat at high tide. The cuisine is Swahili-Mediterranean seafood fusion, served à la carte or as a set menu, using seafood from the surrounding waters. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
The Silk Route and Emerson Spice are both in Stone Town. In Dar es Salaam, Alcove Restaurant is the hotel dining room on the Msasani Peninsula.
The Silk Route is a multi-level restaurant in Stone Town, in Forodhani, serving modern Indian cooking with Zanzibari influences on an à la carte menu. The wine program is standard. Views take in Stone Town, and the cooking draws on coastal produce, South Asian technique and Swahili hospitality.
Emerson Spice is a rooftop restaurant in Stone Town with a Zanzibari seafood tasting menu. The drinks include craft cocktails. Plates use fresh local seafood, creative spices and indigenous plants, served on Persian rugs with views over the city.
Alcove Restaurant is a long-standing Indian and Asian fusion restaurant on the Msasani Peninsula, inside Sea Cliff Hotel in Dar es Salaam. The menu is à la carte, with tandoor-led Indian specialties and Chinese dishes, and the wine program is standard. Beer is poured here as well. The room looks over the Indian Ocean from the peninsula cliffside.
Buffet service is at Lake Masek in Ndutu and Lake Magadi in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with an open-air grill in Central Serengeti and an open-air boma in the Serengeti National Park – Kirawira / Western Corridor. Lake Masek has a wine list, and the grill and the Kirawira boma have standard wine programs.
Lake Masek is lakeside dining in Ndutu. The cuisine is safari lodge cooking, served as a buffet. Resident hippos and wildlife are visible from the restaurant. It sits at the edge of the Ngorongoro ecosystem.
Lake Magadi, in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, serves buffet and à la carte. The shallow alkaline soda lake sits on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater and is known for flamingos and surrounding wildlife. Flamingo-lined shores mark the crater floor in this part of northern Tanzania.
Boma Grill is an open-air Maasai boma in Central Serengeti, in Banagi, with East African grill cooking. Service is à la carte and set menu, and the wine program is standard. Dinner is an evening, open-air meal with traditional dancing around a firepit, in the safari-lodge dining tradition of the Serengeti.
Boma is an open-air Maasai-style boma in the Serengeti National Park – Kirawira / Western Corridor. The cuisine is traditional African bush cooking, served à la carte, and the wine program is standard. Dinner comes with traditional song and dance under the stars. The meal sits in the Serengeti’s camp-dining tradition, with open-air service in the national park.
These properties are an awarded lodge in Serengeti National Park, a beach resort in Paje, a private island on Mnemba Island and a hotel in Kendwa. Awards on them include Michelin Keys, Michelin Selected, La Liste scores, Relais Chateaux, Fodor’s, Conde Nast and Design Hotels.
Serengeti National Park lodge with African-inspired restaurants and the Maji Bar and Terrace. It carries Michelin 2 Keys in 2026 and 2025, and its hillside setting over a watering hole gives the property a strong place in the upper end of the permanent-lodge spectrum.
Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa is a Relais & Châteaux beachfront resort in Paje, on Paje Beach, with 11 private-pool villas. Dining uses organic produce. Awards include a Michelin 1 Key in 2026 (500 points) and in 2025, Relais Chateaux awards in 2026 and 2025, and 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards as regional winner and country winner.
andBeyond Mnemba Island is a private-island hotel on Mnemba Island, with 12 open-air bandas on a white-sand beach and beach dining, roughly two miles off the Zanzibar coast. The Fox Browne team and architect Jack Alexander rebuilt it in 2024. La Liste Top Hotels scored it 90.5 in 2026. Fodor’s Most Incredible Hotels in the World (2026) and the Conde Nast Gold List (2025) are the other awards.
ZURI ZANZIBAR is a hotel in Kendwa, at the northern tip of Zanzibar, with a private 300m beach. It was the first hotel in the world awarded EarthCheck Sustainable Design Gold Certification. La Liste Top Hotels scored it 91 in 2026. It holds a Michelin Selected award for 2025 and Design Hotels membership for 2026.
Zanzibar and Ngorongoro are the largest city counts in our guide, with 18 venues and seven venues. Paje has three restaurants, the highest restaurant count of any city in the guide. wine lists are at Doors to Zanzibar Restaurant in Paje, Emerson Spice in Stone Town, The Rock Restaurant Zanzibar in Michamvi Pingwe and Lake Masek in Ndutu.
Tanzania has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Doors to Zanzibar Restaurant in Paje holds a Relais Chateaux Award from 2026 and serves African and international fusion tasting menus with a wine list.
Look in Paje and Stone Town. Doors to Zanzibar Restaurant in Paje serves a tasting menu of African and international fusion, with à la carte as well and a wine list. Emerson Spice in Stone Town serves a Zanzibari seafood tasting menu, with a wine list and craft cocktails.
No restaurant, bar or hotel covered here holds a Wine Spectator award. The restaurants include those in Paje, The Silk Route and Emerson Spice in Stone Town, The Rock Restaurant Zanzibar in Michamvi Pingwe, Lake Masek in Ndutu, Lake Magadi in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Boma Grill in Central Serengeti and Alcove Restaurant on the Msasani Peninsula. The bar is 3° South Bar/Bistro on the outskirts of Arusha, and the hotels include Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Paje, Tanzania
Beach Restaurant & Bar puts Paje’s shorefront cooking in a relaxed bistro frame: grilled local seafood, meat, vegetarian plates and salads served by the beach at Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa. Its interest is not ceremony but provenance, with the Indian Ocean and the island’s produce doing the heavy lifting.
Paje, Tanzania
Doors to Zanzibar operates inside the White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa resort in Paje, bringing a seafood grill format to one of the Indian Ocean's most productive fishing coasts. Under Chef Lily Wong, the kitchen has earned recognition for creative cooking within a setting where the catch arrives fresh from local dhow fishermen. A focused destination for guests who want the coast's natural larder cooked with genuine intent.
Paje, Tanzania
Doors to Zanzibar Restaurant belongs to Paje’s resort-dining circuit, where beach proximity, international guests, and Zanzibari ingredients pull the menu beyond a single cuisine label. The room’s mother-of-pearl chandelier and à la carte breakfast-and-dinner format set a polished frame for Chef Emmanuel Mruma’s international and African fusion specials.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Alcove Restaurant sits inside Sea Cliff Hotel on the Msasani Peninsula, where Dar es Salaam dining is shaped by Indian Ocean access, hotel kitchens, and a long Swahili Coast habit of seafood, spice, and imported influences sharing the same table. Treat it as a coastal hotel restaurant rather than a chef-led destination: the draw is setting, convenience, and a menu context tied to the city’s waterfront rhythm.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Magara, Tanzania
Boma sits inside the Lake Manyara safari circuit, where dining is shaped less by urban restaurant culture than by proximity to park rhythms, lodge logistics, and regional supply. Its interest lies in the way a meal becomes part of a northern Tanzania travel day: close to wildlife viewing, dependent on seasonal produce routes, and judged against safari-country dining rather than city restaurants.
Kirawira, Tanzania
An outdoor boma in Kirawira places dinner inside the Serengeti’s camp-dining tradition, where setting and sourcing carry as much weight as formal technique. With no public awards, chef credit, or price band attached, the useful reading is contextual: this is a safari-format meal shaped by location, open-air service, and the practical limits of cooking in a national park.
Banagi, Tanzania
Boma Grill belongs to the safari-lodge dining tradition of the Serengeti, where the setting and the fire-led format carry as much weight as the plate. In Banagi, it reads less as a destination restaurant than as a context meal: evening service, open-air cues, and a grill vocabulary shaped by the rhythms of game-drive travel.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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...
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
Lake Magadi sits within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, one of East Africa's most ecologically significant landscapes, where the soda lake's flamingo-lined shores define the visual grammar of the crater floor. Dining here is inseparable from the broader safari experience that frames this part of northern Tanzania, placing it firmly in a tradition where setting and sustenance are understood as a single proposition.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
Set at the edge of the Ngorongoro ecosystem in Tanzania's Arusha region, Lake Masek occupies territory where the food on your plate and the land outside your window are governed by the same forces. Dining here sits inside a broader East African safari camp tradition where sourcing constraints and proximity to protected land shape what kitchens can realistically offer, and that limitation, handled well, becomes the point.
Pingwe Michamvi, Tanzania
Perched on a coral outcrop in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar's southeast coast, The Rock Restaurant is among the more photographed dining settings in East Africa. Accessible by wading or boat depending on the tide, it serves seafood sourced from the surrounding waters. The physical drama of the setting and the directness of the supply chain define the experience as much as the menu itself.
Stone Town, Tanzania
The Silk Route belongs to Stone Town’s seafront dining circuit, where spice-trade memory, harbour traffic, and Indian Ocean ingredients shape the meal before the first plate arrives. Its value is contextual: a restaurant in Forodhani that makes sense when read through Zanzibar’s long exchange between coastal produce, South Asian technique, and Swahili hospitality.
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Banagi, Tanzania
Set inside Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti delivers 77 rooms, suites, and villas designed to frame the surrounding wilderness without competing with it. An infinity pool, a Discovery Centre, African-inspired restaurants, and the Maji Bar and Terrace round out a property that operates at the upper end of the permanent-lodge spectrum, with rates from $944 per night.
Paje, Tanzania
Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa sits on Paje Beach on Zanzibar's quieter southeastern shore, offering 11 private-pool villas across 1,500 sqm each. A 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards winner across regional, country, and continental categories, the property combines butler service and organic-produce dining with a dedicated kite-surfing centre, rates from USD 910 per night.
Dongwe, Tanzania
Positioned on Zanzibar's quieter eastern shoreline at Dongwe, Xanadu Luxury Villas & Retreat earned 90 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking, placing it among Tanzania's recognised villa-format properties. The retreat occupies a niche in Zanzibar's accommodation market where design-led seclusion and low-density stays define the offering rather than resort-scale amenities.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
Positioned inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, NgoroNgoro Lodge holds a 95-point score from La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking and membership in Leading Hotels of the World. The property places in the upper tier of crater-rim accommodation, where access to one of East Africa's most concentrated wildlife circuits sets the terms for everything from daily rhythm to how rest is structured.
Seronera, Tanzania
Africa's Leading Luxury Tented Safari Camp at the 2025 World Travel Awards, Siringit Serengeti Camp sits in the central Serengeti near Seronera, where the park's wildlife density is at its most consistent. Daily game drives operate from the camp, with the surrounding plains delivering close-range encounters that few fixed lodges can match. The canvas-and-pole format keeps guests inside the ecosystem rather than insulated from it.
Arusha, Tanzania
Mwiba Lodge sits within a private wildlife reserve on giant stone boulders, delivering panoramic views across canyon and savannah terrain that few camps in the Serengeti ecosystem can match. Winner of the 2025 World Travel Awards for Tanzania's Leading Luxury Tented Safari Camp and rated 93 points by La Liste Top Hotels 2026, it occupies a distinct tier among Tanzania's private-reserve properties.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Karatu, Tanzania
Gibb's Farm sits on the edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area outside Karatu, where a working coffee plantation provides the setting and the logic for everything that follows. Recognized by La Liste's Top Hotels ranking in 2026 with a score of 94.5 points, it occupies a specific niche in Tanzania's safari accommodation circuit: farm-rooted, agricultural in character, and calibrated against a quieter pace than the high-volume lodges further into the Serengeti corridor.
Kogatende, Tanzania
Siringit Migration Camp repositions itself across the Serengeti in step with the Great Wildebeest Migration, placing guests at the river crossing points that define one of nature's most dramatic annual cycles. An eco-conscious mobile camp, it trades fixed infrastructure for proximity to the action, offering a form of temporary luxury that follows the herds rather than waiting for them.
Usa River, Tanzania
Positioned on the Kilimanjaro Golf and Wildlife Estate in Usa River, Siringit Villa sits beneath the dual silhouettes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, with Tanzania's northern plains extending in every direction. The property operates as an exclusive private retreat at the gateway to some of East Africa's most significant wildlife corridors, placing it naturally in the conversation around high-end safari accommodation in the Arusha region.
Mafia Island, Tanzania
Thanda Island occupies its own private island within the Mafia Island Archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania, where the Indian Ocean meets one of East Africa's least-trafficked coastlines. A Leading Hotels of the World member as of 2025, it sits in the exclusive-use private island category, positioning it alongside Africa's most limited-access coastal retreats. Arrangements require advance planning given its remote location and the logistics of island access.
Kirawira, Tanzania
andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge sits within the western Serengeti corridor as a ten-room camp positioned along the Grumeti River, where the Great Migration passes on its annual circuit. The intimate scale places it firmly in the specialist tier of Tanzanian safari accommodation, where low guest counts and direct wilderness access define the offer rather than resort amenities.
Sedeco, Tanzania
andBeyond Klein's Camp sits at the quieter, more intimate end of Serengeti safari accommodation, with just ten rooms positioned to maximize proximity to the plains without sacrificing architectural thoughtfulness. The camp belongs to andBeyond's East Africa portfolio, which spans from the crater rim at andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge to the river systems further west. For travelers weighing scale against seclusion, ten rooms defines a deliberate editorial choice.
Magara, Tanzania
andBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge sits among the mahogany trees of Lake Manyara National Park with just nine rooms built entirely on platforms above the forest floor. This small-scale property places guests inside the canopy rather than beside it, making proximity to the park's tree-climbing lions and flamingo-lined shoreline the central experience. Advance planning is strongly advised given the limited inventory.
Serengeti, Tanzania
andBeyond Serengeti Under Canvas operates at the mobile-camp end of the Serengeti's luxury spectrum, with just 9 rooms positioned to follow the migration rather than anchor to a fixed lodge address. The format trades permanence for proximity, placing guests inside the ecosystem rather than at its edge. For travellers who prioritise wildlife access over resort infrastructure, the scale and positioning make it a considered choice within the andBeyond Tanzania portfolio.
Nyabogati, Tanzania
ENVI Sisini Serengeti occupies the northern reaches of Tanzania's most celebrated game reserve, operating eleven rooms across a format that places low-density accommodation at the centre of its proposition. As the northern Serengeti hosts the annual wildebeest river crossing, the camp's position makes seasonal timing a genuine factor in how and when to plan a visit.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Positioned on Dar es Salaam's clifftop ridge above the Indian Ocean, Hotel Sea Cliff occupies one of the city's most architecturally commanding addresses. With 95 rooms spread across a property that balances ocean-facing design with urban accessibility, it represents the upper tier of Dar's established hotel stock, a reference point for business and leisure travellers who want proximity to the city without sacrificing the view.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
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.
Pongwe, Tanzania
Tulia Zanzibar, winner of the 2025 World Travel Awards for Zanzibar's Leading Boutique Resort, sits along the coral-fringed shore at Pongwe on the island's quieter northeast coast. The property belongs to a category of small-scale East African coastal retreats where design restraint and low guest capacity define the offer. For travelers routing through Tanzania's lodge circuit, it represents the island counterpart to the mainland safari experience.
Bawe Island, Tanzania
Bawe Island, winner of the 2025 World Travel Awards for Zanzibar's Leading Luxury Resort, occupies its own private island off the Tanzanian coast. For travellers routing through Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast, it represents the upper tier of the Zanzibar luxury accommodation category.
Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania
Be Zanzibar Boutique Hotel sits on the quiet southeastern shore of Zanzibar at Jambiani, earning a place on the Michelin Selected Hotels 2025 list. The property operates in the small-footprint, design-conscious tier of East African coastal accommodation, where low key counts and direct reef access define the offer. It positions against boutique peers rather than the larger resort complexes that dominate the island's northern and central coasts.
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Arusha, Tanzania
Magharibi, Tanzania
Perched on the Chuini Royal Cliff above the Indian Ocean on Zanzibar's west coast, Arnoldi's on the Cliff is a bar and bites destination where the setting is as much the draw as the drinks. The cliff-edge position puts the ocean at every sightline, making it a reference point in Magharibi's small but growing scene of atmospheric drinking spots.
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