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Written by Gordon Fong
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
Zafari restaurant web site
18 Ashley Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth BH6 5AA - Tel: 01202 393 164
 Zafari restaurant
It was a Friday night that me, Angela and my brother went around 8.45pm. There was only one other table there but that was a party of 8.
We opened the menu and it all looked very interesting.
I opted for the Malagasy salad which is pineapple, coconut, with chilli and salad leaves. I don't know what it was and I am sure it was more me than the meal itself, but my first mouthful took me back to when I was 15 years old and smoking John Player Specials. My taste buds must have been playing tricks. I did just have a full week of eating and drinking.
Our grouup also had the crocodile with peanut sauce and the smoked chicken and mango salad. The crocodile, they say tastes like chicken, looked slightly tough but when eating a piece it was actually quite tender. The smoked chicken also tasted nice and had large slices of mango all over it.
For the main courses we decided to try something that we don't normally see on the menu so we skipped the Tuna and normal steaks and chose Impala, Kudu and Nile Perch.
The Impala looked dark on the outside and they cooked it medium-rare so when I cut into it it was a very deep red, just like a rare seared tuna. I though hmmm, this will be interesting. After my first mouthful, I was converted. It was delicious. It was like eating tuna sashimi as it was very, very tender. There was no fat or gristle. I shouldn't have went for the pepper sauce and should have chose the meat jus, as the pepper sauce detracted from the quality of the steak.
The Kudu was like a normal rump steak and was nice. The Nile Perch was a bit like monkfish.
Overall it is definitely worth trying. Although there may be wildebeest and impala on the menu the food is more accessible than you think.
Go on, give it a try and tell your friends you have tried crocodile.Powered by AkoComment! |
