The best take aways in Zim

[RustyBear]

Which take aways in zim where the best for grub fast food and the best Restaraunts for lunch and dinner.

Hamburger Hut :- Great J.R burgers and samosas

[Shayne]

NOTHING beats a chicken burger from Chicken Inn....

[Poison]

I had a couple of those chicken burgers from Chicken Inn when I was back there in Jan. F:smiley35: they tasted good.

[zambezilover]

happy days made some good grub but chicken inn rules....especially 3 chicken burgers at 4:30 in the morning to get rid of the munchies after a good night out

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[biffon]

Mr T in karigamombe Centre made the BEST! dagwood burger!
FYI a dagwood filling is: bacon, egg, beef pattie, onions, tomato & bbq sauce. - really oily, messy but tasted like a full english breakfast in a bun!
and you cant beat that!

Chicken inn: chicken & mushroom burger ooohhhh they are good.

Pizza Inn: Caribean pizza (the one with banana in it)

[chantillylace]

King Pie!
The best place for lunch was Flatdogs.
For breakfast: Le Cafe (man they made the best baked potatoes!)

What was the name of that take away just as you drove into Msasa from town. They made great sandwiches and fresh orange - we used to stop on the way home from work for a sneaky snack! mmmmmm mmm mmmm mmmm!

[Poison]

Q'tees is the name of that place Chants.

They still make the best chicken rolls believe me..

[biffon]

you mean they actually have bread rolls??? hehe

[Shayne]

Pizza Inn made some good stuff. However do NOT order the seafood pizza. I made that tragic mistake and was VIOLENTLY ill for about two days.

Zimbabwe = no sea = no fresh seafood = bad seafood pizza = very sick Hamster from both ends

[chantillylace]

Pizza Inn made some good stuff. However do NOT order the seafood pizza. I made that tragic mistake and was VIOLENTLY ill for about two days.

Zimbabwe = no sea = no fresh seafood = bad seafood pizza = very sick Hamster from both ends

Hahahahaha - their Mexicana Pizza is the best ever!

I met a family here who were posted to Zim for 3 years. They work for the British Foreign Office and have lived all over the world. They reckon Pizza Inn pizza is the best in the world so,......there it is....it's official!

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[RustyBear]

MMMmmmmmmm chicken in mushroom burger what a luck

[Kirsty]

Ohhh I miss choc 99's. Man you don't get flakes in the USA, so therefore you don't get choc 99's. It really sucks. And the "hundreds and thousands" here that they put on ice creams suck too in comparison to those at The Eskimo hut in Zim where I got ice cream from all the time.

Hey what was the place near "water world" by the golf driving range? They had pretty good chips and burgers as well. Would always get chips and a choc 99 whenever I went there with my dad to hit balls.

[Richard]

cal always use to make me stop to get the corn on the cob from the side of the road!!!!!! he was so tough to control in those days.

[Kirsty]

Ahhh, I loved those burnt roadside mealies.

[Kirsty]

What about the bags of popcorn you could buy. I used to buy them over the convent walls at break time or lunch time. It wasn't popcorn, I think it was poped soy beans or soemthing, but it was good and so cheap.

[izabokkeman]

Deboniers (Sp) and St elmos made some yummy pizza's and there was those two chinese takeways At avondale I lived of those during my last three months in zim

[RustyBear]

I know exactly which popcorn you on about kirsty its called maputi, i loved it aswell, and also i used to buy those candy cakes from the bread man.

[RustyBear]

Can anyone remember those flavour ravers. milk choclate, strawberry etc.

[chantillylace]

My Dad owned a Maputi and penny cool factory, he made the best biltong and dryvoers in town and had a Dairy den! God I was a lucky kid!

I loved Deboannaire's Bolognese Sub! We used to buy one on our way to Sports and then eat it at 5 in the morning on the way home! Or go to the 24hr food court in town and have a Steers egg and bacon burger!

What was that place near Water Whirld that Kirsty mentioned? - it's gonna bug me now!

[RustyBear]

East 24

[RustyBear]

where was ur dairy den chants? was it in kadoma or gegutu?

[chantillylace]

In Chegutu.

[RustyBear]

I remember it it used to have the nicest tasting icecream it was so creamy, what was it called again

[chantillylace]

I think it was just called Dairy Den - it was the only one in Chegs.

[RustyBear]

I remember it was on the corner on the left if you were leaving chegs towards harare.

[chantillylace]

Yah, that's it. It was attached to our Bakery!

[RustyBear]

Y did he sell it

[chantillylace]

He would sell all his businesses. When he had built something up to it's full potential he'd sell it and start something else. Or with our supermarket - OK were opening up in town so he rented them our building instead of havin competition.

[Petal]

The best for me was Dairy Den's Double Thick Crunchie Milkshake and twisty bread from Pizza Inn!

[sally]

Twisty bread, love that stuff!! going to have that when i get to zim!!!

[RustyBear]

what about the double thick malt shake from dairy den very nice.

[RustyBear]

Can anyone remember that waffle and ice cream place around the corner from the kine 1 & 2 movies oh ya i remember milky lane wasnt it.

[Kirsty]

I think it was Milky lane. And RustyBear - good call on the East 24, I could not remember that name for the life of me.
Chantillylace - you were a very lucky kid, biltong, dairy den, maputi ... - now thats heaven.

[Smiley]

There is a new place in Newlands called Kenge. It makes its own health bread rolls and sandwiches, basically a health food place, but very very nice. Also makes the best brownies ever. But going back some years there used to be a tiny place in Msasa called Little Chef. Best curry for that Thursday morning hangover

[RustyBear]

can anyone remember the bombay duck, that was the best curry house ever

[FerrariSucks]

oh man the memories are tooooooo much

[RustyBear]

still for me to this day i have never had a better pizza than pizza inn half bbq chicken and half marinated steak mmmmmmmmmmmmmm pizza

[izabokkeman]

still for me to this day i have never had a better pizza than pizza inn half bbq chicken and half marinated steak mmmmmmmmmmmmmm pizza

hear hear, for a first world country the UK's take-aways suck most taste like card board. Which is a problem when you are to lazy to cook

[biffon]

Zim-style tek awey! :smiley20:

[Shayne]

Hmmm, i could do with one of those mealies in my chops

[biffon]

close your eyes and think of the taste and the smell and you'll be gauranteed to start drooling like a bloodhound!!

[RustyBear]

ah mate that brings back memories do they still sell them on the side of the roads? i always bought mine along the samora machelle.

[izabokkeman]

thats looks tasty, four more months then i can have one !!!!!!

[Shayne]

Steak and Kidney / Pepper Steak pie from Hamburger Hut @ Jameson Sweet corner. Get home, add some Worchester Sauce and lemon....

Heaven on earth my friends. Semi erection material.

[RustyBear]

pollys chicken pie after heavy night drinking at charara now thats full erection shit.

[izabokkeman]

Full english breakfast with pap, boervoers, and steak, that always fixed me after a night drinking. Or when I was a young pup with out a place scoop and nandos at avondale would be my friday evening yummy

[Aboriginal]

The old dairy Den at borrowdale! Pink Panthers and Green mamba's. Yum! The best tasting ice cream before they refurbished it!

[biffon]

biltong shavings from Lions den butchery, -the best tasting in southern africa - wins hands down no objections from anyone im sure!!

Piri piri biltong from wesgate --- aaah like fire but damn was good! full of fat, hard on the outside and soft on the inside -gave you lock jaw from eating too much!! hehe!

[izabokkeman]

Some guy cut his finger off at that biltong shop while sliceing someones biltong, thats what I call giveing a crappy customer the finger:smiley36:

[Bolty]

What about the the Garlic loaded Chicken from that Portuguese restaurant inn the Avenues - Coimbra

[fantaniatastic]

East 24, now we are talking the same language!! Their iced coffees were something to write homa about!!!!!

[fantaniatastic]

:smiley2: East 24, now we are talking the same language!! Their iced coffees were something to write homa about!!!!!

[Goblin]

Stax in Mutare used to make the bestest burgers, especially the mushroom ones and their ribs were divine.... but like everything else, who knows what its like now. Burger bar was the best place for samoosas and sausage rolls......... im hungry now.

[vukenmuven]

Piri Piri or Garlic Chicken at Coimbra Restaurant ... also commonly known as "Yellow Doors".

[Shayne]

There is a new place opposite St Johns called Willowmead something or other that does the BEST fish ever. In fact all the food ther eis good. Not really a takeaway though.

[TiGeR]

Okes you makin me HOMESICK! :smiley19: Remember Malwatte & Oscar's salamis on the Mutare rd!?...made those trips to 'shed, hut & h/crest that much more bearable!

[Nyala]

Malwatte had the worlds best cheesecake.........I used to stop there on frequent trips to Harare from Mutare...also Halfway House for Icecream and Stax were the only place who knew how to make iced coffee......drool!!!!

[Savannah]

The little restuarant by Rolf Valley Gym is very good with seafood.

Also there is a chinese restuarant Shangri La which is very good and they do take away.

Thai Thai (Siwadee) is also very good.

Chicken Inn chicken burgers have become :smiley11: now. So :naughty: go there if you come for a visit.

Delhi Palace is still excellent :smiley32: .

Mr T is still good too.

[squeakyB]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Malwattee Cheese cake was the best!!! Used to drive out there once a month (on a Saturday or Sunday) with Ex and his month for breakfast, grab a cheese cake and drive back to Harare...

The Chinese in Avondale were the best for Spring Rolls - what the heck these Chinese people in UK think are classed are spring rolls I have no idea!!!

Acropolis (sp) was another great place - love greek food !!!

[Nemesis]

Hamburger Hut pies the best in the world. Keg does good pub grub, and they will do it as a take away as well

[squeakyB]

hmmmmmmmm Chips from Chicken Inn with Mushroom sauce and tomato sauce mixed!!!! yummie!!!

[Nyala]

Did anyone else ever buy the Netsies from the side of the road? We used to buy them and go home, fry them up - one took up the whole frying pan - with bacon, eggs, sausages and fried tomatoes. Yum-my!!!

[sally]

what are those??

[Nyala]

They are the big brown and white wild mushrooms. They also used to sell them at the Mazoe Kiosk. Verrrry nice!!!!

[norns]

oh yes please so very nice !!!!!!!!!!!!
and the guava juice hummmmmmmm

i think the best place to get fresh cream doughnuts was creamy inn !!!!!!!!!

[galeforce]

When I met my husband, he was a manager for Chicken Inn in Bulawayo... he lived on the Inns food – 3 times a day and was the skinniest person around (man, how times have changed since I started forcing vegetables down his throat...)

Most of you guys are Harare people, but in Bulawayo, Oriental Take Aways made the best pies in the world and Eskimo Hut rocked with pretty much everything that they produced.

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[squeakyB]

When I met my husband, he was a manager for Chicken Inn in Bulawayo... he lived on the Inns food – 3 times a day and was the skinniest person around (man, how times have changed since I started forcing vegetables down his throat...)

Most of you guys are Harare people, but in Bulawayo, Oriental Take Aways made the best pies in the world and Eskimo Hut rocked with pretty much everything that they produced.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmEskimo Hut - Granparents used to take there as a treat when we were in Bulawayo visiting them on school hols!!!!

[Chick]

Galeforce - Did you know Stanley Stratford who was also the manager of the Chicken Inn in Byo at one time. (1985 I think) He was in my class and we are trying to track him down.

Squeaky B - sorry for asking that question of you - reading the quote, but hey you gotta a rep for it.

[Chick]

Eskimo Hut in Bulawayo. Delicious icecream and the best hamburgers around.

Bulawayo Pie Shop - pies to die for

Chinese take away (not the Peking) in arcade - wot name I forget - AVOID AVOID AVOID - got food poisoning of note

[zimboykie]

Remember the foot-long hotdogs at Eskies in skies & Fritz's if your guts needed a clean-out!!!

[byovixen]

Hawaiian Burgers & Nutty Double Malts from Eskies, to die for!

1/4 Chicken & chips from Yebo Gogo, the best!

Those juicy pies from Oriental Takeaways, Hmmmmmmmmm!

Just thinking about it makes my mouth water:whistling:

[Shifty]

Mmmm, steakrolls from Dagwoods in Byo. I really liked the Pie & Gravy from Haddon & Sly.

The piri piri chicken at the Keg & Sable in Harare rocked.

[galeforce]

Galeforce - Did you know Stanley Stratford who was also the manager of the Chicken Inn in Byo at one time. (1985 I think) He was in my class and we are trying to track him down.

Sorry only just seen this now Chick. My husband recogises the name, he thinks that he would have been a bit older than him and I am afraid that we wouldn't know how to find him. (In 1985 my husband would have only been 14/15).

Just found this link (http://www.nandosuganda.com/chickeninn.htm) that says that Chicken Inn started 1987 in Harare (not sure when it started in Byo)...

[SpaRHawK]

I have no idea why I took this picture when I was back in Zim one time but.. there you go..

Doesn't really fall into the catergorie of a take away but a few people have mentioned ice creams... remember I used to always get one from here when coming back from town..


*note to self - remember to scale down your pictures before posting next time.....*

[Bianca]

how I miss the dairy den! Mmmmm - Bee stings were my favourite....

[Cez]

here here! i loved bee stings! nyum nyum!

[Smiley]

Have to tell you I was at Dairy Den (or Eastlea Ice creams as its now called) today ordering a cinderella ice cream cake for my kids birthday (Z$250,000 - USD10.00 today, tomorrow it will change - thats zim). I was a regular at that place as the vale bus stopped behind the shopping centre. It has changed quite a bit inside, they are trying but still have very little business!

[Poison]

Mmmmmm Penny Wise my local bottle store..

[biffon]

I miss the pie man that used to come around to our work every day... spuff youd remember him!!!! damn those cheese and ham pies were outstanding!!!

[Bianca]

Oh no - save the Dairy Den!!!!

[Bren]

I used to like the chicken inn burgers (take note of the used to, even though I still live here) and the biltong from Midlands Butchery. Also when we go to Bulwayo the Ice cream at Eskimo Hut (dont know if they still open). Cant afford luxuries like that anymore.

[hoadc]

In my day the best where the east24 iced coffee, bunny chow from harare, burgers from Mr T and pies from mutare, this was before chicken inn and the rest.

[Chick]

[quote=Bren;76292] biltong from Midlands butchery. /quote]

Absolutely the best biltong going. Spent a fortune in there in 05, popped in every other day. The owner, who's name I forget, has got to the be the rudest man going to his customer's - there was no customer care going on there, but people kept on going in because he had the best meat and biltong.

[barto11]

pizza inn pizza...much better than pizza hut

[Shayne]

I'm going to be in Zim in 5 days time. Please tell me Hamburger Hut is still open?

[boards]

I'm going to be in Zim in 5 days time. Please tell me Hamburger Hut is still open?

was alive and kicking in april and packed to capacity!!

[Angelshark]

When I was there it was still open but tend to run out of stuff very quickly, get there early to avoid dissappointment. Tell Tyson I sent you and you will get what you want or need

[joemac]

Oriental Take aways in Bullies used to make the best Chicken and Mushroom Pies. There were queues around the block at lunch times.They also had awesome spring rolls, the best I have ever eaten. This is a shame because now, whenever I have a spring roll, I think "not as good as Orientals"

[Angelshark]

haha

[priya]

Oriental Take aways in Bullies used to make the best Chicken and Mushroom Pies. There were queues around the block at lunch times.They also had awesome spring rolls, the best I have ever eaten. This is a shame because now, whenever I have a spring roll, I think "not as good as Orientals"

The last time I was in town at lunchtime, there were still queues outside. Maybe not as long as they used to be, but good to know they're still popular.

I loved their spinach pies.......those were to die for - but my pocket can't afford them now. :)

[Nyala]

Mutare-ites will remember the iced coffee from Stax - Yuuuuum-mmmy!!!!

[lurchandpasta]

I haven't had time to read through this entire thread, but if it hasn't been mentioned yet, Zorba's in Bulawayo make/made the best steak rolls.

[Mullah]

Zorbas had great pies. And the ?????/ Duck that used be be on Jameson avenue by the parkade in Harare Now that just shows you how long ago I left

[Mullah]

Teading thru the posts THE BOMBAY DUCK Now they could make a curry that would have you whistling "Dixie" through your arse in no time flat. And watch out the next morning

[boards]

Buffalo Downs butchery for biltong

The little kiosk - denises kitchen or mikes cafe in lions den??? for steak rolls!!

[Harold Hammond]

The last time I was in town at lunchtime, there were still queues outside. Maybe not as long as they used to be, but good to know they're still popular.

I loved their spinach pies.......those were to die for - but my pocket can't afford them now. :)

Last time I was there, found out they were no longer making the chicken and mushroom pies. That was half the reason I ever went back to Zim. pfff.

[Angelshark]

Russels Cafe in Sinoia, now that place rocked, and Afflora, the bombay duck was on central avenue wasnt it. It was Le Paris under the parkade or am I wrong, Dagwoods in the parkade haha

[Sam Edwards]

Anyone remember Angels restrant in Byo best cheese and spinach pies better than oriental, but oriental made the best steak pies. And (Hey fatties) Heffalies, There was a choose your own filling sarmie place in byo opposite the new shoping center cant remember what it was called it was a bakery...they did yummy sarmies.
But the best ever was still Chicken inn at 4 am after coming out of Granada yummy. Who can remember the breaded chips from Whimpy In byo.........MMMMMM

[Armstrong-Abbott]

Oh country bumkins you lot, what about the 12,000 Horsemen upstairs in Mono's. Laaarnie when it first opened but soon turned into quite a good pub on a Friday night - quite a pick-up joint actually !:rolleyes:

[lurchandpasta]

More of a pub than a take aways, but "The Beer Engine", half way between Chinhoyi and Chegutu, always stopped there for a drink en route to visit my family, but rode there from Chinhoyi several times on my bicycle and had a braai with the owner. Never had any steaks, just huge chunks of meat, probably roadkill, but always tasted good after a 45km ride.

[Sam Edwards]

More of a pub than a take aways, but "The Beer Engine", half way between Chinhoyi and Chegutu, always stopped there for a drink en route to visit my family, but rode there from Chinhoyi several times on my bicycle and had a braai with the owner. Never had any steaks, just huge chunks of meat, probably roadkill, but always tasted good after a 45km ride.

boody hell.....a 45km ride for roadkill.........you must have been starving or you just mad...lol:smiley5: :crazy!::crazy!:

[Belladonna]

Donuts from the Dutch Oven in Gweru - yummy
Samoosas from Rick's Spar in Kwekwe - even yummier
And a Curry Burger from Eskimo Hut in Bulawayo. When we were living in Botswana, my hubby used to make business trips to Bullies. He once made it all the way to the border before remembering that he hadn't got my curry burger, so turned around, went back to Bulawayo, bought it and then made his way back to Francistown. He knew which side his bread was buttered!!!! hehe

[Angelshark]

Eish, either he loves you or is sh*t scared of you.

[biffon]

haha



Duuuude!! Mr T's Dagwood burger!! was the Shizzle manizzle!!!
I used to go down to karigamombe from work on 1st St, at lunch and get a greasy dripping cheezy dagwood!

[dallas]

sounds so good!!!!!

[Angelshark]

I used to work at the jewellery shop in Karigamombe and went the Dagwoods to get lunch. couldnt handle MrT, too oily. Any one remember Milky Lane, the richest milkshakes ever

[Chick]

Any pie from The Pie Shop in Bulawayo. Pastry to die for.

[boards]

Spring Fevers breakfasts, quiche at lunch and their teas... too good!