Choose Kigali — Contemporary / Gallery Fine Dining, Kigali
Choose Kigali is one of the most deliberately conceived dining experiences in East Africa: Head Chef Billy McCormick, with over 28 years of creating fine dining experiences across multiple continents, has built a restaurant concept that begins before the food arrives. Every dinner starts with welcome drinks and a private tour of the gallery that forms part of the dining environment, followed by a seven-course menu of vibrant, exciting dishes that the chef designs as a complete narrative experience.
The cooking at Choose Kigali reflects McCormick’s global experience applied to Rwandan and East African ingredients: the seven courses move through flavour combinations and technical preparations that demonstrate both the chef’s international training and his genuine engagement with the local ingredient landscape. The vibrant, exciting language that the restaurant uses to describe the menu is an accurate description of the experience.
The gallery that provides the pre-dinner context is a deliberate curatorial statement: Rwandan and East African contemporary art displayed with the seriousness of an institution that regards visual and culinary culture as complementary expressions of the same creative ambition.
Choose Kigali is the restaurant for Kigali occasions that want the complete cultural experience: the gallery, the welcome drinks, the seven-course dinner. The concept is the most complete expression of Kigali’s cultural ambition available at a single table.
Best Occasion: Proposal
A private gallery tour, welcome drinks, and a seven-course menu designed by 28 years of fine dining experience: Choose Kigali provides the most elaborately conceived proposal experience available in Rwanda.
Best Occasion: Impress Clients
The gallery tour, the 28-year pedigree of the chef, and the seven-course narrative menu communicate the full scope of Kigali’s cultural and culinary ambition to clients who arrive expecting less.