La Fontaine at Meikles Hotel — French / International Fine Dining, Harare
La Fontaine at Meikles Hotel is a sophisticated restaurant located within the luxurious five-star Meikles Hotel — Zimbabwe’s most prestigious hospitality address and the hotel that has been receiving the country’s most important guests since 1915. The restaurant offers a French-style dining experience combining French cuisine with local grilled delicacies, with its Grill Room exuding class and sophistication for a truly luxurious fine dining experience.
The cooking takes the French culinary tradition as its technical foundation and applies it to the finest available Zimbabwean ingredients: the game meats of the surrounding bush, the freshwater fish of the Zimbabwean lakes, and the agricultural produce of the country’s fertile highlands. The service matches the Meikles Hotel’s century of hospitality tradition.
The wine programme draws on South African producers alongside the international selections that a five-star hotel of this standing demands. The live band entertainment adds the dimension that Zimbabwean hospitality has always provided as part of the dining experience.
La Fontaine is the restaurant around which Harare’s most important business occasions, diplomatic dinners, and significant celebrations have been organised for generations. The Meikles Hotel setting provides the gravitas; the kitchen provides the quality.
Best Occasion: Impress Clients
Zimbabwe’s most prestigious five-star hotel, a century of hospitality tradition, and French-Zimbabwean fine dining: La Fontaine is the most powerful client dinner statement available in Harare.
Best Occasion: Proposal
The class and sophistication of the Meikles Grill Room, the live entertainment, and the French cuisine with local grilled delicacies create conditions for a proposal in Zimbabwe’s most historically resonant dining room.