It was a fairly quiet typical Sunday afternoon / early
evening and I was in a bit of a dilemma as to what to have for dinner. I’d
already enjoyed the Backpackers Spanish omelette (omelette with peppers and
onions) for brunch as whilst feeling suitable lazy I couldn’t face a second
meal of the day at the hostel and really didn’t want a rolex.
So after a successful trip to the relatively close by Café Javas
a little while ago I decided to go for a bit of a Sunday afternoon stroll up
and down a couple of hills to the City Oil petrol station where the café is
situated. The place is very modern, clean, well air conditioned and has free
wi-fi. The AC was a welcome relief after the 30 minute journey and fee wi-fi a
boon since the hostel had recently started charging for access (5000 UGX for 4
hours).
The restaurant was fairly quiet with mostly locals and a
couple of older noisy American gents. I had a hankering for Mexican so I went
for the steak burrito with chips and a Coke. The chips were the same as with
burger, nothing to set off the fireworks for. The burrito itself was more of a
San Diego style than the San Fran Mission style that we usually get in the UK.
The tortilla itself just had the steak inside it and the plate had cheesy
beans, salsa and guacamole on the side.
The guacamole was garden variety mushed up avocado, with
little else and sadly lacking in garlic. The salsa was very dry, but quite
tasty and the cheesy spicy beans were pretty good. The steak in the tortilla
was really good, big lean chunks of nicely marinated beef. Adding all the
ingredients together produced a pretty tasty dish, but the guacamole definitely
needed more oomph. I might try and make some this weekend.
All in all a pretty good three out of five.
After the meal I went to the next door supermarket which was
typical of petrol station places by being ridiculously overpriced, and picked
up some supplies. I also went back to Javas and bought a small banana loaf to
take away. Since they’d heated it up I scoffed it down pretty sharpish on my
return to the hostel after the walk back. It was damn good, another three out
of five.
P.S. Congrats to Simon and Sarah on Baby Jack, and belated
congrats to Jamie and Jo on Baby Zebby
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