Ban Café Oasis: Only good after sundown
Nov 11, 2010
THE new Ban Café at Oasis Mall is gorgeous and cosy with deep brown interiors all woody and soothing. You know you want to enter. Helps that it is right at the entrance to the mall, so you pretty much just trip over your shoelaces and fall right in.<br>
By Ernest Bazanye
THE new Ban Café at Oasis Mall is gorgeous and cosy with deep brown interiors all woody and soothing. You know you want to enter. Helps that it is right at the entrance to the mall, so you pretty much just trip over your shoelaces and fall right in.
Maybe a bit over-decorated, though. We climbed the stairs to the platform above the floor and discovered that it is not easy to find a seat. The furniture is great and the carpenter gets a salute from me, but they could arrange it better.
My guest had to ask if the little lamp that was too close to the table was meant to “burn usâ€.
We headed back downstairs and puzzled over which of the remaining seats to take. Really great furniture, and when we had finally located ourselves, my guest affirmed as much.
But it was four in the afternoon. The place is, as I have said, right at the entrance to the mall. I was comfortable until the sun dipped, then alas! It shot its beams right into the café, and they were hot and unforgiving. We tried to draw the curtains but they were too short.
The food? Expensive, I will tell you that right away. There is a lunch menu with meals that cost those ends of sh25,000 and the regular food list asks you to pay roughly 15k for sandwiches.
I had chicken stroganoff, my guest had a club sandwich. Now, if I had complained about my wonderful chair being placed in the sun, I had to hesitate to move because I was really enjoying my chicken. The sandwich was amazing, meanwhile.
I will give props to the service, too. Our waitress was efficient enough.
They have just opened, so I guess there is time to rearrange the furniture and get bigger drapes, but until then, I recommend this place as long as you go there after sundown or before the sun starts to descend to the west.
THE new Ban Café at Oasis Mall is gorgeous and cosy with deep brown interiors all woody and soothing. You know you want to enter. Helps that it is right at the entrance to the mall, so you pretty much just trip over your shoelaces and fall right in.
Maybe a bit over-decorated, though. We climbed the stairs to the platform above the floor and discovered that it is not easy to find a seat. The furniture is great and the carpenter gets a salute from me, but they could arrange it better.
My guest had to ask if the little lamp that was too close to the table was meant to “burn usâ€.
We headed back downstairs and puzzled over which of the remaining seats to take. Really great furniture, and when we had finally located ourselves, my guest affirmed as much.
But it was four in the afternoon. The place is, as I have said, right at the entrance to the mall. I was comfortable until the sun dipped, then alas! It shot its beams right into the café, and they were hot and unforgiving. We tried to draw the curtains but they were too short.
The food? Expensive, I will tell you that right away. There is a lunch menu with meals that cost those ends of sh25,000 and the regular food list asks you to pay roughly 15k for sandwiches.
I had chicken stroganoff, my guest had a club sandwich. Now, if I had complained about my wonderful chair being placed in the sun, I had to hesitate to move because I was really enjoying my chicken. The sandwich was amazing, meanwhile.
I will give props to the service, too. Our waitress was efficient enough.
They have just opened, so I guess there is time to rearrange the furniture and get bigger drapes, but until then, I recommend this place as long as you go there after sundown or before the sun starts to descend to the west.