Panorama’s ambience outshines its service
Nov 26, 2009
PANORAMA is one of those places that are greater to meet at than they are to eat at. The ambience is fantastic, especially in the evenings. It is a tiny place, snuggled in a little corner of Worker’s House’s, 9th floor.
By Ernest Bazanye
PANORAMA is one of those places that are greater to meet at than they are to eat at. The ambience is fantastic, especially in the evenings. It is a tiny place, snuggled in a little corner of Worker’s House’s, 9th floor.
It is furnished with more chairs and glass-topped tables that are spacious than you would expect to find in such a small place.
There are also a few comfy sofas in front of the windows that open out to the view of Kampala that will remind you of just how drab and annoying our city can be if you make the mistake of looking out of them by day.
Much better to use the windows at night, then all you see of Kampala are the lights twinkling off the hills. None of the dust and clamour and general chaos of this dustropolis of ours.
The café is also full of potted plants, some large enough to tempt you to call them potted trees. They lean their branches close to one of the tables in particular. I suspect no one ever sits there.
It is decorated with some interesting art-paintings and sculptures of the “abstract†persuasion, so you can be artistically bewildered as you wait for the staff to come out of hibernation.
I was there on a Wednesday evening and was sure I would have had the time to cook my own food in the eons it took for the waiter to show up.
And when he did, it was with a menu that was, unfortunately, rather limited. My guest had chips and fish fingers (she liked them) and I had chips and liver (not bad). Roughly 10k each.
We had to wait for another epic period of time for them to arrive after we ordered them, though.
In the evenings, it is very calm and quiet, even though it is full. It is clearly a popular place. Possibly because of its serenity and probably also because it is right in the centre of town.
It cannot be popular because of the food and is certainly not popular because of the service. But it is still a decent place to wind down after a workday.
PANORAMA is one of those places that are greater to meet at than they are to eat at. The ambience is fantastic, especially in the evenings. It is a tiny place, snuggled in a little corner of Worker’s House’s, 9th floor.
It is furnished with more chairs and glass-topped tables that are spacious than you would expect to find in such a small place.
There are also a few comfy sofas in front of the windows that open out to the view of Kampala that will remind you of just how drab and annoying our city can be if you make the mistake of looking out of them by day.
Much better to use the windows at night, then all you see of Kampala are the lights twinkling off the hills. None of the dust and clamour and general chaos of this dustropolis of ours.
The café is also full of potted plants, some large enough to tempt you to call them potted trees. They lean their branches close to one of the tables in particular. I suspect no one ever sits there.
It is decorated with some interesting art-paintings and sculptures of the “abstract†persuasion, so you can be artistically bewildered as you wait for the staff to come out of hibernation.
I was there on a Wednesday evening and was sure I would have had the time to cook my own food in the eons it took for the waiter to show up.
And when he did, it was with a menu that was, unfortunately, rather limited. My guest had chips and fish fingers (she liked them) and I had chips and liver (not bad). Roughly 10k each.
We had to wait for another epic period of time for them to arrive after we ordered them, though.
In the evenings, it is very calm and quiet, even though it is full. It is clearly a popular place. Possibly because of its serenity and probably also because it is right in the centre of town.
It cannot be popular because of the food and is certainly not popular because of the service. But it is still a decent place to wind down after a workday.