What is the most exotic restaurant you've eaten at?

[FriedPotatoes]

I’ve eaten pit-roasted water Buffalo in idk where in southern egypt along the Nile. Just jump off the boat, sit around the fire, and wait til the locals have the thing ready. It was lush green about 100 yards along the Nile, then pure desert.

 

[Ducker 4 Ever]

For me, it's a place called "The Carnivore" in Nairobi Kenya. I went there with a group of strangers to climb Mt Kilimanjaro, which we did. After the climb we got to hang out in Nairobi for a few days before flying back to the states.

"The Carnivore" has a professional hunter that harvests random wild game from the African prairies. Their daily menu changes upon whatever the hunter brought back to the restaurant. That night they were serving hartebeast. There was a big open fire in the middle of the restaurant and the leg quarters were on a spit. The chef would slice off pieces of meat and plate it for you when you went through the line. A dress coat was mandatory to enter, but not a tie.

The hartebeest (/ˈhɑːrtəˌbiːst/; Alcelaphus buselaphus), also known as kongoni, is an African antelope. Eight subspecies have been described, including two sometimes considered to be independent species.

Let's hear your story.

I ate at "The Carnovore" in Nairobi in '07 when my mom and I went on a sightseeing safari in Kenya/Tanzania. When I saw the title to your thread, that was going to be my response.

My mom would remember (she documents everything) but I believe we had ostrich, crocodile, and a few other plains game type animals. I remember being pleasantly surprised by the crocodile. Also the "Tusker" beer wasn't too bad, drank several of those!

 

[PaulinKansas]

When I was a teenager, my parents and I went on a vacation to Egypt. We took a day cruise on a medium sized ship down the Nile. A lot of people were sunbathing on the upper deck. It was a clear hot day. I remember approaching a tall bridge over the river and I saw a bunch of kids running along the bridge. As we pass under the bridge, all the people that were sunbathing on the deck suddenly got exckited and started getting up and looking around. The kids on the bridge had timed their peeing off the bridge so that the sunbathers had a shower of ****.

 

[Lip Shooter]

We got to meet a Masai village. They slaughtered a goat in front of us. One guy held the goat, and another shot it in the jugular with an arrow. A third person collected the blood in a bowl. Then they cut it up into little pieces and put the meat on skewers. They stuck the skewers in the ground around a small campfire. About an hour later we were eating it. The women in the group were kind of squeamish over this whole presentation. Nairobi was crowded. Saw a person get run over by a box truck. There was also a big military presence at all the intersections along a highway. They had FN FAL's. I secretly took some pictures with a 35mm camera at one of the intersections.

Did you go to the vendors market down town Nairobi? The kids I don’t think had seen to many blonde girls. Had a line of them touching (petting) my daughters hair. We didn’t do the goats blood but did do a a type of carnivore meal.

 

[Aunt Betty]

We drove the Denali highway end to end in 1974 I think it was. Theres a curve on the road where there's a lodge with a restaurant. I forget what its called. Thats the launching point for all attempts at climbing Denali. Kind of neat but hardly exotic.
We ate there.
Another more exotic restaurant we went to was in Homer, Alaska on the end of the Homer Spit. Fresh off the boat alaskan seafood.

 

[PaulinKansas]

Did you go to the vendors market down town Nairobi?

We did. We also spent a lot of time in an Italian pizzaria because they had the BBC on and imported beer. We had been out of touch with world news for 3 weeks, and you never realize how much you miss it when you don't have that information. There were problems brewing in the Middle East, and Operation Desert Shield started about 10 days after we left. We had a layover somewhere in the Middle East.

 

[Mort]

My wife and I ate at a restaurant in Mazatlan, Mexico called Ma Mucas, (sp) in 1982. It had great seafood. It wasn't what I call exotic, more of a dive. But, a guy did walk by our table with an Ocelot on a leash which I found a little weird.

 

[blacktail]

Waffle House 2am. North Charleston, SC.
That was exotic and dangerous.

 

[Aunt Betty]

Waffle House 2am. North Charleston, SC.
That was exotic and dangerous.

I took a 14 yr old kid to waffle house on our way to hunt. We were the only sober customers. Poor kid saw things.

 

[H20DAD]

I’m sorry but carnivore reads like “tourist trap”. But hey if you’ve never eaten hunted game I get it.

My most exotic was a Texas road house or some other steakhouse on the south side of Atlanta where my buddy and I were the only white people in the place and everybody stared at us the whole meal. Not sure what I ate but am glad I survived without incident.