Restaurants: Haandi Indian Restaurant, Kampala, Uganda

This Indian restaurant is what I would consider the best Indian food you can get in Kampala, Uganda. It has been operating for as long as I can remember and have been able to keep consistency in the food, even if not in the prices ;-)

To get a good dinner costs around 50,000 - 70,000 Ugsh these days for 2 people and that includes having a beer or a Cocktails with the dinner. This would include Masala Papadums, 1 Non vegetarian dish, one vegetarian dish, Biriyani Rice, Mixed Raita and some Garlic Nans. Definetely enough food for 2 hungry people.

The price would dramatically change if you take one of their specialties like the Tandoori Grilled Prawns starter. That one alone will set you back as much as a whole dinner but it has been worth it so far. I only know of one occasion in 10 years when the prawns where not fresh.

Unless the host girls know you as a good customer they will for sure seat you in the runway between the kitchen and tables even if the restaurant is open. This is also the case if you brought an African girl as a Mzungu (as they seem to assume a lot ;-)

Thus it pays to be persistent to get a good table next to the Windows outside.

A good sign about the quality of the food is that you will for sure see at least 20 Indians eating there same time on any night.

Finding parking outside is easy. Just park on the non-parking space and give the guards a 1000 Ugsh and you can be sure the car is there on return.

The "not so" lonely planet created why?

This is the start of a new blog by travelers for travelers who already have an extensive collection of presumably good travel handbooks. Handbooks that 20 or so years ago really was for the active shoestring and backpacker travelers but now have ended up being too commercial with skewed reporting based on the need to get sponsors.

The author himself has a lot of handbooks yet on arrival in the extensive amount of travels undertaken the last 20 odd years there is still a gap between what is reported and what should be experienced in the various places.

For a place to be reviewed in this blog the author or travelers that he knows or who he sees have a down to earth, not judgmental knowledge about places visited. This irrespective if it might be a hotel, restaurant, bar, night club or any other establishment. What is important is that any review is based on a real traveler feeling rather than the commercial (ill give you a review as you gave me good service, as you know ill write for this book... magazine. type of review.)