Kenyan-Japanese teppanyaki gaining popularity on Uhuru Highway

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Published on Saturday, 17 May 2014 04:08

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Only a couple of months young, the Urban Grind Coffee & Grill located in the newly opened Highway Mall, next to Nakumatt Mega on Uhuru Highway, is already adding real diversity to its Japanese inspiration.

The restaurant, lounge and café is the brainchild of a passionate Kenyan restaurateur, who first became interested in teppanyaki when he lived in the US –  thanks to its captivating Japanese theatre-style cooking and fun community-vibe. But Nairobi’s newest watering-hole is not aimed at your regular Japanese cuisine purists.

Urban Grind, its name a reference to its location – just outside of the traffic-prone Central Business District and older industrial area of Kenya’s capital – a neighbourhood where investors are not exactly flocking to open new restaurants, is serving up an experience that is metropolitan to be exotic and provides worthy diners in the area a new option that doesn’t require them to commute across town to neighbourhoods such as Westlands or Kilimani for more adventurous cuisines.

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