Makuwa-kuwa - Victoria Falls

Great atmosphere deep in the wildlife. Experience can’t get better than this. Staff was welcoming and service was excellent. I’m definitely going back soon

We had a confirmed booking for dinner at 18.00 and arrived 10 minutes early only to find out the dinner doesn’t begin before 19.00. This was no problem due to the view which we enjoyed along with some drinks. While the staff were kind enough to give us a complementary snacks while waiting which was actually quite good. However, once we sat for dinner, we ordered soft drinks and asked for the wine card. This never arrived. Therefore, we ate starters without drinks. Once the main came, we still hadn’t received drinks nor the wine card and we tried asking again. Luckily, it came this time. The main menu was really poor quality! This was by far the most expensive meal and most disappointing one in Zimbabwe… My friends pork ribs was 80% gummy fat and the rest was far from impressive. All this could definitely be excused as minor unlucky errors and would not justify leaving a bad review for everyone to see in my eyes. But what made me write this review was when we were done, we kindly asked if the reception could call us a taxi. The receptions answer was no and that we could try to ask 8 other quest if we could join theirs. So, basically we were left out in nowhere on ourselves. Luckily my friend has data on his phone and where able to get a hold of a taxi company. Otherwise we would have been stranded in an empty place with the only option to walk home which is very dangerous here with the wild animals. The view and complimentary bread was nice tho. 100% would not recommend for eating

Where do I begin? We made a reservation over WhatsApp 2 days prior to our visit. This was confirmed by the restaurant. Unfortunately this seems to have been completely ignored as we arrived and were told there was no reservation. So we sat for 2 hours waiting for a table, enjoying the view of the watering hole. No animals in sight but a very nice sunset and setting. Drank some pretty awful red wine (the only red on the menu) at the bar as we waited for them to call us upstairs. Then they finally bring us upstairs to the restaurant and the place is half empty. Which was a bit annoying as we were sitting for 2 hours for no good reason. Anyway we let it slide but then our table was full of ants. We were trapped at the ant table because as soon as we sat down the singing band started (which I must admit was very good). As the singers moved from table to table singing their songs, it became clear that we would be trapped forever at the ant table without an opportunity to order food. This went on for 15 minutes. Finally my wife lost her patience and asked if we were invisible. They then started to pay attention to us, moved us to a nice table (then asked us to move to a less nice table, then once again back to the nice table) and kindly informed us that there were no bread rolls left (we had no expectation of bread rolls but it was good to know that we were once again missing out on something). Our waiter Wonder was the saving grace. Slight mistake on the drink orders but he made up for this with his friendly demeanor. Food was decent but not worth the headache. Beautiful venue that could be 5 star but needs some better management and organization.

The Buffalo Cafe was amazing The view is spectacular staff was amazing the wild life stunning.

This restaurant has an absolutely spectacular view over a watering hole in the Zambezi National Park. We ate lunch with sightings of standard antelope (waterbuck and impala) and hundreds of vultures gathering for food. The restaurant has several vegetarian options, some of which can be easily customised to be vegan. I had a hummus dish; it was delicious. There were six of us, and our bill worked out to $20 per head, with each person having a vegetarian main and one drink reasonable price for Vic Falls with a view.