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Robyn from the Indaba Book Cafe and Sandwich Bar was up in Harare to welcome their new chef all the way from Australia. I think that Bulawayo residents will be very fortunate to have the variety of cuisine available increase.  There is no shortage of good wholesome food in Bulawayo restaurants. Kimba should add a great new fresh dimension to the available cuisine – this chef didn’t want to risk not finding his favourite herbs so he has brought along his own supply of seeds to start up his own supply of herbs at the restaurant.

Indaba also had their first book signing on Friday – we look forward to hearing how it went and some photos…

Eatout now has a great category which includes all the popular restaurants on the site. The popularity is determined by the number of clicks on every restaurants webpage and the current top 10 most visited restaurants on the website are:

TOP 10 RESTAURANTS IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE

The Vanilla Moon

Mama Mia Restaurant

Leonardo’s

Alo Alo

Cafe Caprice

Blue Banana & Baobab Grill

Cafe Espresso

St Zita Brasserie

Deli-cious

Coimbra Restaurant

Most Popular Restaurants

Our Latest addition

Fusion

All the above restaurants have been put in those positions by the number of hits they have received to date on the site. The team at eatout would like to thank the restaurant owners who have been actively pushing the vote flyers to encourage visitors to their page on the site.

Eatout team has just appointed a new team to start work on a website in time for the 2010 worldcup to be held in South Africa. The site will be a host to all the hotels in Zimbabwe the site will be called  Zimhotels.com.

Mr Joseph Bunga expressed great satisfaction with the reception of the market for the eatout website that went live less than two months ago and its has gained a strong following in the market.

Eatout holds regular training sessions with restaurants in Zimbabwe and this is designed to increase the online activity of the industry.  We recenltly met with Eltah Nengomasha, PR for the Rainbow Tourism Group and we look forward to them joining us on eatout

Today I was chatting with some of the youth at Nazareth house in Harare and we were talking about whether it would be nice to have a coffee shop at the church.  Any such conversation wouldn’t happen with mentioning Celebration Center where the Cee Cee’s coffee shop is.  A place where our teens can hang out a still be in a fun environment.

Another interesting area was the Cyber Cafe concept – would the church be a good place to let teens try out the various social networking tools that are so popular in todays world.  How would this help them in their future I hear you asking? Well I don’t know for sure but isn’t exposure in a safe secure environment better that sneaking around and won’t this also help them become aufait with using computers?

Next week I will be meeting with the parents to present the findings of our survey.  In the mean time I have to suffice with meeting the Youth like I did last week at St Zita’s in Borrowdale.

The new team that has been recruited today to begin work on the www.zimlodges.com website will include the Bed & Breakfasts around zimbabwe aswell. The various areas being covered are as follows:

• Restaurants – www.eatout.co.zw
• Lodges – www.Zimlodges.com
• Hotels – www.zimhotels.com
• Entertainment – www.zimbojam.com
• Blog – www.zimbablog.com
• Webdesign – www.existdigital.com

These are great projects and I look forward to seeing the come to fruition.

Life is a Picnic When you are going to make an effort to travel to a beautiful location for the afternoon or day,don’t let sloppy catering and a lack of comfort spoil the outing! A day out requires 10 times more planning than any other event at home. Planning wins hands down over spontaneity to make sure that it will be a day to remember.In an ideal world you would have a fully kitted caravan or as the Americans call them an RV. Ground Sheet – a heavy duty plastic or canvas to go underneath your rugs or thows. Cushions – plenty or directors chairs (made popular by Makro and Game -during our trips to South Africa) Sandwiches – tend to get soggy inside containers – instead of preparing them in advance, prepare all the elements in separate containers and assemble them on the spot! Take a pot of hummus or pre-sliced ham or roast beef. You can ofcoure butter the rolls in advance. ICE – instead to trying to keep the milk cold -fill a bottle two thirds with milk and freeze overnight – you can do this with water and juices. For cutlery – I recommend investing in a picnic set (set for 4 costs around R120 at Cape Union Mart) courtesy of www.eatout.co.zw – coming soon www.zimhotels.com

While I was at Church this Sunday – I met with Lucy Zimyemba who had just played host to the Awards ceremony where Oliver Mutukudzi was awarded an honorary degree.  Lucy was telling me how she had thown out the Zimbojam in error from this event not knowing that we had a personal invitation to be there.

As existdigital we are looking forward to covering such events

The team at eatout would like to congratulate Zimbojam on Turning one today.  The quality of events, pictures on this site have been inspirational. Well done Fungai. We look forward to jamming with you for many more years to come.

Promotions are a great way that the restaurants in Harare, Zimbabwe are trying to encourage more people to eatout. The concentration of restaurants has always been high in Zimbabwe but I am amazed as new restaurants continue to open. In the past two days I have seen two new restaurants. I look forward to seeing the new Lime restaurant opening next to St Johns and just today I saw lovely new equipment being unpacked at the Colcom complex off Coventry Road. This restaurant will have the benefit of Eileen who has spent a lot of time on Scotland where the hospitality is excellent.

You can count on the team at eatout to ensure that you are the first to know. Next week we have a promotion with Mama Mia so don’t forget to visit the site to check it out.

Today we reached 200 registered users and we look forward to continuing to grow with your support. In order to make it exciting we are trying to launch a new promotion every week. This week the promotion was centred around Cafe Espresso will be announcing the winners on Friday. Next week we will be featuring a promotion on Mama Mia who will be giving away 10 X $20 vouchers. When you make a booking after having seen the details on the eatout website please be sure to let the restaurant know so that we can encourage them to give you the user more promotional items.

The major promotion this year will require you to use your points you gather by being on the site to participate – you will need to have a minimum of 200 points. This promotion will be a dinner for two and it will include a Chauffeur driven ride with Champagne on your way to the restaurant.