The Boma — Place of Eating — Traditional Zimbabwean / Cultural, Victoria Falls
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 displays and dancing to entertain diners in a large wooden kraal near the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge. The combination of the authentic Zimbabwean cooking, the cultural performance, and the kraal setting produces an evening that is simultaneously a meal and an education.
The cooking covers the full range of traditional Zimbabwean dishes: the sadza, the game stews, the warthog (a speciality of the Victoria Falls region), the freshwater fish of the Zambezi, and the accompaniments that the Zimbabwean cooking tradition has been developing since the Shona and Ndebele kingdoms controlled these lands. The brave diner can also sample the mopane worms.
The drinks programme celebrates Zimbabwean beverages: the local beers, the traditional fermented drinks, and the soft drinks alongside the wines.
The Boma is the Victoria Falls restaurant that turns an evening into a cultural experience: the drumming, the dancing, the warthog, and the sadza together produce a dinner that is specifically and memorably Zimbabwean.
Best Occasion: Birthday
Traditional Zimbabwean cuisine, drumming displays, and traditional dancing in a wooden kraal: The Boma provides a birthday dinner that is simultaneously a feast and a performance.
Best Occasion: Solo Dining
The communal kraal setting, the drumming, the dancing, and the full range of traditional Zimbabwean dishes: The Boma is one of the most immersive solo dining experiences in Southern Africa.