Best Restaurants in Victoria Falls
Five essential tables, ranked by occasion.
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Victoria Falls’s Top 5
The Livingstone Room
The Livingstone Room at the Victoria Falls Hotel provides fine dining with stunning views at one of Southern Africa’s most historic hotel properties. The Royal Livingstone and the Victoria Falls Hotel are easily am...
The Boma — Place of Eating
The Boma — Place of Eating offers the most intriguing cultural dining experience in Victoria Falls: just about every traditional Zimbabwean dish on offer as well as international cuisine, featuring drumming display...
Victoria Falls Safari Lodge Restaurant
The restaurant at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge is perched above a game-rich waterhole with spectacular views, offering grilled fresh bream and other local and international fare including crocodile simmered in red curry. ...
Mama Africa's Eating House
Mama Africa’s Eating House is a contemporary township-style restaurant with a variety of African dishes and a resident jazz band — the combination of the township aesthetic, the African cooking’s divers...
Dusty Road
Dusty Road is a traditional Zimbabwean restaurant in the vibrant centre of Chinotimba — the largest and oldest township in Victoria Falls — with cuisine prepared in the traditional manner using cast iron pots...
The Signature Deck on Zambezi Explorer
The Signature Deck on the Zambezi Explorer’s uppermost level offers gourmet meals and colourful cocktails whilst floating on the Zambezi River — with the sound of Victoria Falls audible in the distance and th...
Dining in Victoria Falls — The Essential Guide
The Smoke That Thunders at Table
Victoria Falls — Mosi-oa-Tunya, ‘The Smoke That Thunders’ in the Tonga language — is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the greatest curtain of falling water on earth. The 1.7-kilometre-wide, 108-metre-tall waterfall that the Zambezi River creates at this point provides the backdrop for a dining scene of extraordinary natural drama: the sound of the Falls audible from the Victoria Falls Hotel’s dining room since 1904, the wildlife visible from the Safari Lodge’s waterhole perch, and the Zambezi River itself available as a floating dining venue via the Zambezi Explorer.
The cooking ranges from the historic fine dining of The Livingstone Room to the cultural immersion of The Boma’s drumming and dancing to the township authenticity of Dusty Road’s cast iron pots. The common thread is the extraordinary natural setting: everywhere in Victoria Falls, the Falls are audible, the wildlife is present, and the Zambezi is visible — the most dramatic natural dining context available anywhere in Africa.
The Zambezi at Table
The Zambezi is one of Africa’s four great rivers — the one that creates Victoria Falls before continuing to the Indian Ocean through Mozambique. The freshwater fish of the Zambezi, particularly the tiger fish and the bream, provide the kitchen at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge and the traditional restaurants of the township with their most distinctive local ingredient. The Zambezi River sunset cruise, with cocktails on the Signature Deck of the Zambezi Explorer, provides the most theatrical possible conclusion to a day of waterfall exploration.