Our Food
Grown on our farm, smoked over one slow fire, and cooked the long way round.
Ngong Road · Karen · Nairobi
Est. 1990s
The Talisman
An old house in Karen turned into one of Kenya’s most loved restaurants — fine dining, house-cured salmon, and a room full of art collected over thirty years.
Take the walk
Elegance & Ambience
An evening made
of small details.
The Talisman is an old Karen house that never quite stopped being one — stained glass throwing colour across the walls, collected art in every corner, and lanterns coming on as the light goes. The food is cooked the long way round: herbs and greens from our own farm, salmon cured and smoked here over one slow fire, bread baked at dawn. What holds it together is a dedication that rarely announces itself, and a table nobody will ever ask you to give up.
Food & Beveragesfrom the fire, and from the bar
Wine · Coffee · Cocktails
A short, opinionated wine list, coffee roasted here in Kenya, and cocktails cut from the garden you are sitting in.
Then evening falls,
and the lanterns take over.
Our Story
An old house on Ngong Road that became a garden, a farm and a fireplace.
Art & Events
New wall art every month, live DJs and musicians in the room — never on a stage.
Families are
welcome here.
Room for children to run while lunch stretches into the afternoon, and couches in the green for the grown-ups. Bring everyone, and stay until the lanterns come on.
Contact
We’d rather
speak with you.
No booking engines, no bots. Leave your details and a member of our team will call you back to plan your visit — birthdays, brunches, or just a Tuesday that deserves better.
- Ngong Road, Karen, Nairobi
- +254 705 999 997
- Tuesday – Sunday, 8:00 am – 11:00 pm