Category: Food

Restaurants in Botswana cluster in Gaborone, Maun and Kasane, with menus leaning international rather than local, since most safari visitors eat at camps where meals are included. Maun has the widest choice for travellers, Kasane offers riverfront dining beside Chobe,…

Botswana's national dish is seswaa, beef or goat boiled slowly with onion and salt then shredded and pounded, served over pap or bogobe with morogo greens on the side. The cooking is plain, beef-centred and built around porridges of maize…

Botswana's drinking culture runs on two tracks: commercial lagers led by St Louis, brewed in Gaborone, and traditional sorghum brews including bojalwa ja Setswana and the packaged version known as chibuku. Non-alcoholic options include gemere ginger beer and mageu, a…