Lukmaan - One of the Best Restaurants in Zanzibar

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

One of the best restaurants in all of Zanzibar is Lukmaan restaurant. Click here to see the details (and more juicy photos): I've been to Zanzibar quite a few times now, and everytime I get off the ferry or get off the plan, I head straight to Lukmaan restaurant for lunch. In my opinion, they serve some of the best local Zanzibar food available. The restaurant has changed a number of times, as in, before they had a menu where you sat down, ordered, and then your food was delivered to your table. But this latest time when I went to Lukmaan, they had arranged the restaurant more of a buffet style, but where you pointed to the dishes you want and the server will dish it. You then pay for your meal and then find a seat. There's both indoor and a few tables outdoors as well along the street. Lukmaan restaurant serves excellent local Zanzibari food. There's always a mouthwatering selection of curries available, many of them being seafood and coconut milk based. Zanzibari food is an amazing blend of local African, Indian, and Arab flavors all combined into tasty flavorsome cuisine. My eyes fell directly onto the orange octopus curry. I also ordered a bowl of African style beans, and a plate of both pilau rice and biryani rice with fish. Pilau rice is a spiced rice that's very common to eat in Zanzibar. Biryani is also a spiced rice, but it's more of a sweet spice and it's paired with a separately cooked sauce that's packed with spices and oil. Both are good, but biryani is really a meal in and of itself, while pilau tastes good with curries, such as the octopus curry that I ordered. Just as I had remembered from my previous visit to Stone Town, Zanzibar, Lukmaan restaurant delivered some seriously tasty local food. Both the pilau and the fish biryani were excellent, but the true winner of this meal was the octopus curry. First of all, the octopus was wonderfully tender. I almost couldn't believe how tender it was, it almost had the consistency of a chicken breast, but a bit more chewy as octopus should be. The curry sauce was a blend of coconut milk, spices, and a squeeze of lime juice to sour things up. Bites of the octopus curry along with the spice riddled pilau rice was marvelous. Lukmaan restaurant, in my opinion, is one of the best restaurants in Zanzibar Open hours: about 7 am - 9 pm daily, lunch is a great time to go Prices: Most meals cost around 5, 000 TZS (3) per person, but we ate a lot and had a bottle of water as well and our bill came to 12, 000 TZS (7. 26. How to get there: Just like in all of Stone Town, getting there is the confusing part. Sometimes you've got to walk around in circles, asking locals along the way, until you get there. The restaurant is located along New Mkunazini Road, just outside of the Stone Town lanes, and right behind the Anglican Cathedral and former slave chamber
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Classic boxing and mma
mark, do you have recipes, for the octopus carry, as a matter of fact, for the whole meal that you had at lukmaan's. And thank you, for answering back. Peace, and you are my fav, traveling food guy. Especially, your trip to Brazil, that video, made me find a Brazilian, eatery here in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and, I got the recipe, to the feijoada, I know it aint spelled that way, and the shrimp, camera, you know what I mean, thanks, and keep on eating.
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Raditya Oe
Look man, wow. Cool video, i see they use basmati rice as standard rice type for biryani. Seems so good, you depict it. Thanks as always for the experience mark. Maybe i get inspired later when i opened restaurant to have cool name too, like look mom or look bro lol. I guess it have meaning good person literary, if im not mistaken. Best regard.
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hemant kumar
mark i have started watching ur videos recently. whatever u eat be it any place. u always tell that dish is delicious and mind blowing. according to me not all dish u eat will be mind blowing some will be average some good and some bad. so if u dont like a dish u should also show in ur video.
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Fredrick Oh
Your reaction make all food look so good. There must have been some food you couldn't get used to. Can you do a review of food you dont recommend that travellers may want to avoid or be careful of? Thanks many times. I am enjoying your uploads so much
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kimani mungai
one of my favorites, for those who don't know Swahili food has a lot of influence from middle eastern cuisine and Indian cuisine also a little bit of Portuguese cuisine. the east African coast was one of the centres of the ancient spice trade routes
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timeman702
What differentiates you among other food bloggers is the excitement in your face. You have the same face all of us would if we were you. Then your reaction is amazing. You don't have that look like I can recreate this like others chefs usually do.
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vacationboyvideos
It looks like Indian food Is it close? The chili peppers I thought where little jelly candy ( gummies) like from japan LoL. Wow so are u there now? Or just one of you MaNY old videos? Keep em rolling dude & u keep in trucking u rock peace
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yootuubinatwerk
sorry this place is NOT one of the best places to eat in zanzibar. its the cheapest way to eat, food full of that zanzibari oil you will get sick at least an hour later. but enjoy, zanzibar beaches best in the world
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Chris
I want to try the Octopus curry that looked amazing. Sometimes its hard to get Octopus cooked so its not rubbery, but I imagine the acidity in the curry/broth may help make it nice and melty
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Upenda Sana
The choice of cuisine and eateries has evolved a lot since I was there over twenty years ago, there was nothing like this. I would love to go back and try all this.
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